Happy Birthday Mr Jones

On this day way back in 1965 the word bore witness to the birth of Adam Thomas Jones, who we all know went onto become the guitar play for Tool, as well as occasional poster creator and movie sculptor.  Adam will be on tour tonight, and who knows if they have any special plans for him on the evening.  Maybe the crowd should break out into happy birthday when the lads a taking a bow following the show.

Anyway, Here’s a nice version of Lateralus, which contains not one, but two of my favourite Jones solos:

Adam talks about the WWE performance

Adam posted on Facebook a little while ago a summary of his experiences at the WWE gig:

‎~Wow! What a blast.
Triple H and his wife Stephanie are big tool fans and asked me to open the show on live international television. Pretty FN crazy.
Vince McMahon ask for a demo so i emailed him one. How cool is that?
All the Wrestlers i met that night were so encouraging and supportive (thanx!).
John Cena joked "just dont pull a Christina Aguilera…"
And with that said, i apologize about the flub up in the first verse.
Some of the camera guys ran by me so close that i thought something was wrong.
Totally broke my concentration.
But to me the rest was a Home Run! The crowd was great. And i will now demand that at the end of any future solo i do
there are epic FIREWORKS.
~big xx to Terry

There’s also finally some decent coverage of the performance up on Metal Injection.

Sounds like he enjoyed it, and no doubt it would have been a fun event to play at.  While there appear to be plenty of readers who dislike the idea of Adam “lowering” himself to play such an event (no doubt these same haters would have no objection if he played at their event of choice) I personally don’t mind it.  If we put people up on pedestals then the only way they can fall is down…

Adam Jones plays National Anthem at WWE event?

Dusty sent me an email a few moments ago pointing me to a recent Tweet from WWE suggesting:

Here’s Tool’s Adam Jones moments after he crushed the National Anthem at #SummerSlam http://t.co/4FqyAoG

No doubt all you sport (and “not quite sport”) haters are considering suicide right now.  Don’t pull the trigger just yet – there will be a new Tool album eventually!

Anyone happen to see this on TV or live?

Update: here’s a bunch of other photo’s from the performance. Thanks Arizona Bay.

Update 2: Here’s a Youtube video without sound from BadKittyGothGirl

Owly Images

Tool progress is progressing, Sasquatch spotted!

A couple of marginally interesting Tool items appeared in the last day, the first being a snippet from a recent Maynard interview reported on Blabbermouth:

As for the status of the next TOOL album — which Keenan gets asked about in every interview — the singer gave The Pulse Of Radio an update and warned fans not to believe everything they read. "We’re just always writing and it’s just progressing as it progresses," he said. "We normally don’t say anything about anything until it’s actually happening, because there’s a lot of people online that apparently can’t read very well. I put an April Fool’s notice up there for the album release, and it was this year, 2011, I said, ‘New TOOL album, such-and-such a date, 2009, and everybody ran around like, ‘Oh, really, the new TOOL –?’ God, you guys are dumb. I swear to God. You’ve got to read. Please, read."

I hope there is no one that dumb who reads Fourtheye.

Secondly Blair shares a picture of the Arizona Bigfoot he recently encountered and managed to snap on his iPhone:

This long haired and bearded beast looks a little like Adam.  ZEMKLA JR revealed?

The Bride Screamed Adam

According to Blair, a very limited edition (only 100 copies) of The Melvins latest album The Bride Screamed Murder featuring artwork by Adam will go on sale here sometime tonight.  No word on what time it will be, so I expect you guys will spam the site and bring it down soon! 

Good luck to potential buyers, limit is one per customer, and from memory the albums cost US$50 each plus postage and handling (though I could be wrong).

Update: The Album is on sale now, though I expect will sell out relatively soon…
Update 2: All sold out now. Were available for about 3 hours from around 5:00pm Australian Eastern Time and sold out some time around 8pm…

Decoy Album Detected

As noted by Mareckii there is an interesting new post on Danny Carey’s site which talks about a recent BBQ at his place.  It includes this tasty snippet:

As the evening progressed, the party moved down to the lower house (so that even more of Danny’s neighours could be disturbed).  There, in a basement music room filled with analog synths and vintage guitars, those not to bloated began to have a go at the instruments.  After the jamming was over there were reports from those listening to riffs by Adam and Justin (with Danny on drums) that, though unfamiliar, sounded very Toolish.  Having slipped out around 10:30 (with smike in my eyes and visions of 150 mg of Zantac), I didn’t hear these myself, so we’ll just have to take their word of this possible sneak preview of things to come.  Personally, I’ll be it was just a decoy…

I imagine that was written by Blair (though it doesn’t say) and is accompanied by this photo:

Maynard discusses wine, Adam Jones Metallica poster

Maynard spoke with the guys on Australia’s Wine Week in Melbourne the other day, and in part 1 of this interview he chats about a range of wine related topics:

Maynard speaks with Wine Week

Adam provided the artwork for one of the posters in the current issue of Guitar World.  Tim was kind enough to take a photo of it for us:

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Looks pretty cool to me – if I see it in the newsagent I think I’ll grab a copy! 

My Tool trek has finished for now – only one more show left, tomorrow night at the Perth Big Day Out.  Western Australian’s don’t miss out on this amazing show!

Officer Santoro speaks!

In an article I stumbled across today, Charlie Santoro (father of Tool collaborator Matthew) speaks about being featured in Adam’s X-Files comic, as well as seeing Tool gig:

Santoro picked up multiple copies of the comic books as they were released.  Framed pages of the comic book where “Officer Santoro” is featured are hung in his Linden Circle home.  Several of the comic books’ pages were pinned up around the Quincy police station where he works.

“It’s incredible.  I’ve been to two heavy metal concerts and I’m the kind of guy who listens to Jewel!” Santoro said.

A short but interesting article!

Adam Jones in Toronto?

Sianspheric sent me an email today telling me that a friend of his noticed the following in a press release regarding the Canadian Music Week festival on Toronto in March:

  • Adam Jones (Tool) / Saturday March 12 / Trinity St Paul’s / 7:00pm (A World premiere multimedia presentation) – Tickets on sale Friday, January 14 at 10am.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what it’s about.  Maybe a new side project, or the unveiling of a much speculated one?  Perhaps something to do with the Y Incision project, which coincidentally nxrm pointed out has had an update, including this vague statement:

Lastly, we are hoping to soon announce a music component to these packages that I am very excited about, but we have a few details to work out first. Trust me when I say, it’s huge and cool as fucking hell.