Adam Jones
Adam Jones
Adam Thomas Jonesis a three-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed ninth in Guitar World's Top 100 Greatest metal Guitarists. Jones is also the director of the majority of Tool's music videos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth15 January 1965
CountryUnited States of America
effort time video
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
artists bigger gone labels money
We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
art drive environment happy influence inspired music whatever
There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
music people receptive
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
few people
I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
four hard reaching time
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
label market meetings record
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
opiate time written
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
song worried
I've never worried about how long the song is.
I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
played program
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
personally
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
songs sound tool
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.