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I'm not a good guitar player.
Adam Jones / Musician
Gamer
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
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I like soundtracks and I like film.
Adam Jones / Musician
Soundtracks
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
Adam Jones / Musician
Lyrics
Solos
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Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
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Bores
Solo
Stereotypical
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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Nirvana
Seriously
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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Steve
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Worried
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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Fine Art
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
Adam Jones / Musician
Prefer
Custom
Guitars
Gibson
Les
Paul
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones / Musician
Band
Art Done Me
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I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
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Lessons
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I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
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Visual
Arts
Visual Arts
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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Equipment
Know Like About
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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Radio
Expressing
Hits
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Lately
Listened
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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Approach
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Program
Violin
Grade
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We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
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Meetings
Label
Record Label
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones / Musician
Classical Music
Guitarist
Self
Self Taught
Taught
Background
Classical
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones / Musician
Opiate
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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Solo
Lyric
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
Adam Jones / Musician
Band
Perfectionist
Thinking
Critic
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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Reaching
Hard Time
Perfectionists
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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Effort
Video
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Love Music Dance
Our Music
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Band
Ending
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones / Musician
Band
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Bass Player
Paul
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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Band
Grunge
Seattle
Three
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Helmet
Love Great Song
Sounds
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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Easy
Easy Way
Labels
Marketing
People
Thinking
Understand
Putting
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Just Be
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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Effects
Personally
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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Unsafe
Solid
Raw
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Emphasis
Puts
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
Adam Jones / Musician
Video
Sculptures
Video Games
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
Adam Jones / Musician
Different People
Matters
Images
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Heaven
Stairway
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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.
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Appreciate
Receptive
Music Your People
Music People Way
Right Reasons
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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.
Adam Jones / Musician
Environment
Film
Influence
Mad
Art Music Me
Art Music Always
Drive
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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.
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Labor
People See Someone
Few People
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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.
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Bigger
La
Understands
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
Adam Jones / Musician
Audience
Capture
Communicate
Adds
Connection
Group
Present
Our Music
Pick
Vibe
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