All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll and the rock returns to talk is Jericho with tool guitar player Adam Jones the very mysterious tool.

Adam Jones makes this podcast debut right here in talk is Jericho this is the first podcast is ever done on the eve of tools fifth album release in their first and 13 years.

Fear and Occult comes up Friday August 30th the same day that special deluxe limited edition version of the album rise in the CD as well.

The artwork and packaging for this special version were designed and directed by my guest today Adam Jones the limited edition fear inoculum has a forage rechargeable screen that comes with exclusive video footage a charging cable a two watt speaker in a 36 page booklet.

What else did you expect from the geniuses behind tool right and you're going to hear exactly where the creative visual side of Adam comes from.

He's talking about his love of horror movies special effects and makeup guitar wrestling all those things he's also talking about the first time he met singer Maynard James Ken how they convinced drummer Danny carried enjoying the band and what it was like growing up in Libertyville Illinois with Tom Morello from rage against the machine they were high school friends and Tom's mom was actually Adam's home room teacher what a super group that would be and we to you here who else grew up in Libertyville as well very crazy it's a very secretive rock and roll town.

So let's get to guitar player Adam Jones from tool and here's Adam Jones and fear inoculum and tool talk is Jericho.

This is one cool thing about having a podcast and having mutual friends is that for years I've heard Adam Jones from tool big wrestling fan and and we've passed like two ships the night once in a while but we really have never met and these are my favorite types of shows when you sit down with somebody and

we can get to know each other on air. So this is cool because you said this is your first podcast you've ever done.

This is my first podcast ever and I think I'm kind of getting myself into trouble because there's so many people have asked me you know Eddie truck.

Of course he's asked he asked me all the time come do my podcast so now he's going to like you did Jericho's do mine.

Well he's got he's got Sammy he's had a Sammy Hager on like 15 times and I can't get Sammy so there you go.

I'll trade in Adam Jones for Sammy Hager. I'll see what I can do.

But that's the thing it's because right now especially with tool and you know your first record in years and the huge reaction for fear inoculum.

Now tool once again it's like you forget how big of a band you guys are because you haven't had a record and well even though you're still touring and playing where you expecting to have such a huge reaction to all of this that's been going on.

Yes absolutely it's been too long and I it's just what kind of reaction you know positive or negative right for the most part is it's been very very positive and we have just this incredible fan base that can't be explained.

You know it's you know other bands will come and see our ban on the big on the side stage and they just go I don't get this and I go I don't either.

You know you know little bit of radio is just mostly word of mouth and like I said it's just it's just passionate people but I think it's a thing that we take very serious and we just put our complete hearts into and I think that's a people see that and they appreciate that I mean that's what I appreciate about the arts.

How far someone takes something you know and you can tell you get very passionate you know it's kind of compared to like you know my wife's a painter and I'm an artist and on the side and.

I'm a knee jerk artist and I always campaigned compared to like kind of turn of century oil painting which I really like a lot you know John Singer sergeant and you know others and these guys they had a trade and you know there's no TV there's no radio and this is what they did for a living and you know they got up they did it they had lunch they did they painted and they went to bed and they did this every day so it's it's you know it's a trade.

It's a trade it's there's a lot of passion in it you can see in the painting the experience and how much this person's like kind of tearing them self up inside to do something and you know I think that's.

I think that's what the fans get out of us because you know we really do we're very passionate about what we do you know we just kind of don't take ourselves seriously.

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