Biography of Tool

Members of Tool:
Maynard James Keenan-Vocals
Adam Jones-Guitar
Danny Carey-Drums
Justin Chancellor-Current Bass 
Paul D'Amour-Bass 1991-1995

Justin Chancellor He is the bass player from 1995- and his birth name is Justin Gunnar Walte Chancellor. He was born November 19, 1971. He met the original memebers of Tool in New York when he was still part of a band called "peach" in 1994. Then when Paul D'Amour left the band to play in the band Lusk Tool called him over. At first Justin didn't take the offer because his former band "peach" had broke up and with his best friend he was forming another band. This friend had been his friend from when Justin was 14, but later he saw the oppertunity of playing with Tool and joined. Since then he's give the band a heavier bass sound and this proved to be good after AEnima came out. Also, in January of 1997 he got married.

Adam Jones Adam is Tools guitar player. His full name is Adam Thomas Jones and he was born January 15 1965. Adam writes some music and is the mastermind behind Tools really cool videos. Back in school Adam played violin 'till his freshman year in high school. He than played stand-up bass for three years in an orchestra. Besides these he also played in a band called Electric Sheep with Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. He didn't know how to really play guitar, but him and Tom learned together. He aslo, studied film and got a scholarship to go to film school. In film school he studied stop and go animation (like claymation, etc.) Adam went to school at the Hollywood Makeup Academy. After he graduated, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini's "The Character Shop." He was there for a while, 1-2 years, and worked on a TV show called "Monsters." He designed and fabricated a Grim Reaper makeup and a Zombie head on a spike (later used in Ghostbusters 2.) Adam worked on several commercials, and was one of the designers. He worked on a salad dressing commercial (it was never aired), Olympic stain (Albert Einstein makeups), Duracell (Boxers and Taxi cabs), Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5 (He did the Fredy Kreuger in the womb makeup), and Ghostbusters 2. At the time that Adam had a pet chameleon and a Great Dane. After that, Adam went to Stan Winston's. There he worked on Predator 2, where he sculpted a unique looking skull for the Predator 2 space ship interior. Besides music and film Adam likes skateboarding and drawing and used to like the band Devo. Adam has three dogs, two cats, and two pigs and one is on the back of undertow.

Maynard James Keenan Maynards original name is James H. Keenan. He changed it later on. He was born on April 17 1964 in Ravenna, Ohio. He grew up in a baptist family and in high school moved to Michigan. By the time he joined the army in 1982 he had lived in Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Maynard was a member of the United States Military Academy ("West Point") prep school class of 1984 (which means he was there from the summer of '83 until May '84). He was member of the cross country and wrestling teams, the glee club, and the "Knight Crier." Before Tool, , Maynard was in Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty (C.A.D.) that released an independent cassette called 'Fingernails'. He was also in a band called TeXans. He was also Danny Carey's neighbor in LA. He know lives in Sedona, Arizona, living with Dave Mustaine of Megadeth and previously Metallica.

Danny Carey was born May 10, 1961. Danny Carey grew up in a very typical, middle-class American house in Paola, Kansas. His father was a manager for a large insurance company and his mother was a school teacher. Danny has one older brother and one younger brother. Danny's earliest musical memory was when his father took him into the music library at the University of Kansas and played The Planets by Gustov Holst. Danny started taking lessons when he was ten or eleven, just on the snare drum in school band, and then again when he got his first kit at thirteen. Danny received a scholarship in High School to go to the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City. Danny studied music for over three years at the University of Missouri. He had a couple of offers to play basketball at small colleges, but knew he wasn't good enough to play major college basketball or to go pro. Danny spent years working on his rudiments and doing drum corps. He always loved Billy Cobham and Buddy Rich because no matter how fast they played, you could hear every note. When he was in college he got a lot of classical training, doing recitals for three and a half years. He could have earned a degree if he stuck it out a while longer, but just wanted to play the drum set a little more, so he bailed on school when an opportunity came to go on the road with a band In 1986, Danny moved to Los Angeles, and spent four years there before anything really happened. However, at that time he was heavily into electronic drums. He was playing an electronic kit with real cymbals, and played the clubs. Then he got more into real drums, and attributes that to finally finding a quality set that sounded good. Danny also worked as a session player for Green Jello, Pygmy Love Circus, and Carole King. Danny's day job in LA was working in a tape duplication house. Then he met Adam Jones through Tom Morello of Rage (Against The Machine). Danny was also living beside Maynard. He never auditioned for them (Keenan and Jones). He felt sorry for them, because they would invite people over to play, and they wouldn't show up, so he would fill in. Danny still loves playing jazz when he gets the chance. He is also working on a side project called ZAUM, which deals more in an electronic medium. Danny has also been involved in other side projects, including a TV sitcom called "Sibs" (that gave him the opportunity to play stuff from James Brown and Sly and Family Stone material). Note: I'd like to thank toolshed.down.net. For Danny I was loose on time so I just got it from that site. Same with Paul.

Paul was born May 12 1967 and he played bass in Tool from 1991-1995 when he left to go to a band called Lusk.
Paul D'Amour is originally from Spokane, Washington, and is actually a guitar player at heart. Paul was brought into Tool by Adam Jones. Paul actually came to L.A. because of the film industry. He hadn't played music for a while and was thinking about giving it up. He was angry all the time, and Tool's music suited him perfectly. Paul plays guitar in Kings of Oblivion (now known as the Replicants), a cover band that included members of Failure- they do songs by everyone from Missing Persons to T-Rex, and have a disc out on Zoo. Paul left Tool because of a shift in his musical taste away from heavy, powerful riffs, and he wanted to do something more experimental.