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Adam Thomas JonesWhen we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it. All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band. As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge. But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music. 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. Doing the stereotypical solo bores me. I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies. I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it. I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same. I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other. I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong. I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade. I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist. I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like. I'm not a good guitar player. I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons. If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault. Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs. That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound. That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it. The Melvins are grunge. 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. We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us. We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits. With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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