Help Wanted (album)

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Help Wanted
Studio album by Eric Avery
Released	April 8, 2008
Recorded	2006 – 2007
Genre	Alternative
Length	50:05
Label	Dangerbird Records
Producer	Billy Bush
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Reax Music Magazine [1] Blog Critics Magazine [2]

Help Wanted is the debut solo album release from ex-Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery, released on April 8, 2008. ^[1]

A number of notable guest musicians perform on the record, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Garbage's Shirley Manson, and trumpeters Flea and Willie Waldman. Harold Barefoot Sanders III, who collaborated with Eric in his band Polar Bear, also contributes on a few tracks. Lastly, Chris Chaney, former bassist of Jane's Addiction, plays on a song along with his fellow band-mate of The Coattail Riders.

A music video was created for the song "All Remote And No Control" which can be viewed at IGN.[3]

[edit] Tracklist

1. "Belly Of An Insect" - 4:24
2. "Beside The Fire" - 3:32
3. "All Remote And No Control" - 4:03
4. "Revolution" - 4:22
5. "Maybe" (feat. Shirley Manson) - 4:26
6. "Unexploded" - 3:55
7. "Walk Through Walls (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 5)" - 4:37
8. "Philo Beddoe" - 4:09
9. "Chicken Bone (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 2)" - 3:40
10. "Porchlight" - 3:48
11. "Song In The Silence (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 7)" (feat. Flea) - 4:35
12. "Sun’s Gone" - 4:28

[edit] Personnel

• Taylor Hawkins - Drums (1, 3, 6-8)
• Jason Orme - Guitar (1, 9)
• Chris McClure - Guitar (2), Backing vocal (4)
• Christian Stone - Guitar (2)
• Eamon Ryland - Guitar (2)
• David Levita - Guitar (3, 5, 7, 10, 11), Marxophone (7)
• Mark Pritchard - Guitar (8)
• Zane Smythe - Guitar (11)
• Kirsten Gottschalk - Backing vocal (3)
• Harold Barefoot Sanders III - Synth (3), Drum sampling, bits and synth (12)
• Shirley Manson - Lyric co-writing and vocal (5)
• Jonathan Larroquette - Synth (6)
• Adam Somers - Modular synth (6)
• Chris Chaney - Bass (7)
• Zac Rae - Keys (7, 11), Wurly (10)
• Matt Tecu - Drums (10)
• Flea - Main horn (11)
• Willie Waldman - Outro horn (11)

[edit] References