Articles related to Adam Jones, guitar player for the band Tool
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… Read More »Happy Birthday Mr Jones
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… Read More »Adam talks about the WWE performance
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 sportâ€) 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… Read More »Adam Jones plays National Anthem at WWE event?
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… Read More »Tool progress is progressing, Sasquatch spotted!
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… Read More »The Bride Screamed Adam
Jeff sent me an email just a little while ago containing a link to the new Captain American trailer featuring 46 & 2 by Tool. Jeff points out that Joe Johnston who’s worked on the film, also worked with Adam on Jurassic Park which may explain the connection. Enjoy!
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… Read More »Decoy Album Detected
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: Looks pretty cool to me – if… Read More »Maynard discusses wine, Adam Jones Metallica poster
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… Read More »Officer Santoro speaks!
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… Read More »Adam Jones in Toronto?