ADAM JONES

ADAM JONES

ADAM JONES

ADAM THOMAS JONES January 15, 1965 Not much is known about his early life except that he was a fan of the band Devo. Maynard named his son after Adam's obsession with Devo. Adam is originally from Libertyville, Illinois, and played violin in elementary school. He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. He then played a stand up bass for three years in an orchestra. Adam began skipping Sunday school to read comics books at a nearby store. This rejection of the word of god in favor of the images of the comic microcosm carried over to school where Adam would draw pictures during teacher's lectures and think of music during math class. Adam played bass in a band called Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine in high school and while he never received traditional guitar lessons, they learned from each other. Adam also studied film, and received a scholarship to go to film school. Adam began by learning make-up because he thought it would help him out. He then began work as a sculptor and special effects designer where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's videos "Sober", "Prison Sex", and "Stinkfist". Adam went to school at the Hollywood Makeup Academy. After he graduated, he went to work at The Character Shop. He was there for quite a while, 1-2 years, and worked on a TV show called "Monsters". He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a zombie head on a spike used in the film "Ghostbusters 2". Adam worked on several commercials, and was one of the designers. He worked on an Olympic Stain commercial, a Duracell commercial, and a salad dressing commercial that never aired. He also worked on movies, "Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5" and "Ghostbusters 2". After that, Adam went to Stan Winston's. There he worked on "Predator 2", where he sculpted a unique looking skull for the "Predator 2" space ship interior. Adam worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2". He also helped Green Jello with their costumes, and actively sculpts and paints. Adam is able to achieve a state of synesthesia where playing guitar invokes visions and images to appear before him and making videos, sketching, or sculpting creates auditory hallucinations of riffs and music. Adam is living next to Maynard in LA. He currently has three dogs, two cats, and two pigs, one is on the back of the Undertow album.

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ADAM THOMAS JONES January 15, 1965 Not much is known about his early life except that he was a fan of the band Devo. Maynard named his son after Adam's obsession with Devo. Adam is originally from Libertyville, Illinois, and played violin in elementary school. He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. He then played a stand up bass for three years in an orchestra. Adam began skipping Sunday school to read comics books at a nearby store. This rejection of the word of god in favor of the images of the comic microcosm carried over to school where Adam would draw pictures during teacher's lectures and think of music during math class. Adam played bass in a band called Electric Sheep with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine in high school and while he never received traditional guitar lessons, they learned from each other. Adam also studied film, and received a scholarship to go to film school. Adam began by learning make-up because he thought it would help him out. He then began work as a sculptor and special effects designer where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's videos "Sober", "Prison Sex", and "Stinkfist". Adam went to school at the Hollywood Makeup Academy. After he graduated, he went to work at The Character Shop. He was there for quite a while, 1-2 years, and worked on a TV show called "Monsters". He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a zombie head on a spike used in the film "Ghostbusters 2". Adam worked on several commercials, and was one of the designers. He worked on an Olympic Stain commercial, a Duracell commercial, and a salad dressing commercial that never aired. He also worked on movies, "Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5" and "Ghostbusters 2". After that, Adam went to Stan Winston's. There he worked on "Predator 2", where he sculpted a unique looking skull for the "Predator 2" space ship interior. Adam worked on several other big films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2". He also helped Green Jello with their costumes, and actively sculpts and paints. Adam is able to achieve a state of synesthesia where playing guitar invokes visions and images to appear before him and making videos, sketching, or sculpting creates auditory hallucinations of riffs and music. Adam is living next to Maynard in LA. He currently has three dogs, two cats, and two pigs, one is on the back of the Undertow album.