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The Bride Screamed Adam

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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…

Adam interviewed by Artist Direct

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A new interview with Adam popped up today where he speaks with Rick Florino from Artist Direct.  He talks about his art, his involvement in the recent X-Files comic and the idea of there being a Tool movie:

If the Tool story were to be made into a movie, who would be the perfect director for it, other than yourself of course?
(Adam) Wow, if it was made for TV, it would probably be Roger Corman. If it was a feature movie, it would probably have to be that German director Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder, and it’d have to be in German with subtitles [Laughs]. I’m being positive but my life in Tool is exactly like Spinal Tap meets a Shakespearian play.

So Spinal Tap meets Hamlet?
Exactly, but in a good way [Laughs]. I really love being in Tool. I love what we do and the result of everything. There’s a lot of dysfunction but, at the end of the day, it’s amazing.

Worth mentioning is that some of his art will be showing at the Alternative Press exhibition at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in L.A, which opens on the 9th of July.  According to the interview the piece on display will be the sculpture used for the Peach cover.

Thanks to Sampson for the tip!

Tool Army need your help

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An email came out today from Toolarmy (I didn’t seem to get a copy, despite being a member), asking for help in locating some specific pieces of Tool art.  If you have any thing listed below in your collection, then please check out the website mentioned and submit it.

Dear Tool Army,

The band would greatly appreciate a little help. We are looking for samples of advertisements that contain certain artwork that were used in advertising Tool shows and merchandising. Specifically, we are looking for flyers, posters, magazine ads, newspaper ads, etc., that advertise Tool and contain any of the following artwork. – Tool Wrench
- The eye from the cover of Aenima
- The picture of the white box on the back of Aenima
- The Opiate Priest that appears on the cover of the Opiate
- The Stinkfist characters
- The Prison Sex characters
- Novus Opiate Seclorum
- Medicine Man
- Infiniteeth
If you have anything like this, please scan and send the picture of the whole ad to us athttp://www.pure-eng.com/~toolemail/. If you know when and where the ad was posted – that’s even better.
Visit Our Website Thanks for your support!

Feel free to speculate on what this is really about below!  Thanks to funguy for the tip!

Update: There is some speculation that this may be a scam.  I don’t think it is, but have sent an email to Alan Jones  (Adam’s brother, and Tool’s attorney mentioned in the email) for a comment.  In the meantime, if you’re especially protective of your email address, don’t submit anything.

Update 2: It’s not a scam

Salival.fr interviews Cam De Leon

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Christophe from Salival.fr conducted an interview with Tool associated artist Cam De Leon recently, and is now available on his website.  Here’s the question I know you’re all dying to ask him:

If you don’t mind, can you tell us more about what happened for this great combination to cease ?
Well, I appreciate your interest and concern about that, and I’m sure it’s coming from a good place, but I don’t think there are enough who actually care, to warrant spending much time on it. But I’ll just say in more than 10 years of working together, I contributed as much as I could, and I love Adam like a brother. Working with him was always a meaningful challenge, and I appreciate the experience. But they’re clearly in good hands with the list of super talented artists you mentioned so I don’t assume they have any particular need of me, and I have way more projects of my own than I can possibly manage.

There you go.  A great interview and well worth reading!

Toolarmy Maynard Artwork on Ebay

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One of the 500 limited edition artworks by Maynard (Sieben I believe it was called), available only to Toolarmy members is now available on Ebay.  The item is currently at US$849, not bad for something was originally around the $200 mark initially (if my recollection is accurate).  According to the description:

For auction from 2003 is this Limited Edition Artwork by TOOL front man Maynard James Keenan. I have never seen this up for auction on Ebay before. This Artwork was only available through ToolArmy.com (Tools OFFICIAL Fan Site) in 2003 on a first come first serve basis. This Artwork sold out in under one minute for all available copies. I have copy 64 / 500. The artwork is not printed on white stock, it is an off white cream color. The color in the scans is not discoloration. Just as beautiful as the day it arrived! All 4 corners are CRISP AND SHARP! This piece is MINT!!!

Despite what the seller says, I’m pretty sure it didn’t sell out in under a minute.  It was available for sale for some time, though is no longer.  For those with deep pockets in these tight economic times, a piece I’m sure well worth investing in…

Adam Jones Sculptures

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jun2san tells us that Adam Jones has updated his Myspace page, with number of pictures of art he has done in the past, including some that seem to date back to college. He also adds the note:

FYI fellow surfers
___________________________ _ _ _
more added photos for my friends
cause i really do
love you
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fear nothing
adamj

Go to the Pics section to view them all.