Help Wanted (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Help Wanted
Type = studio
Artist = Eric Avery


Released = April 8, 2008
Recorded = 2006 – 2007
Genre = Alternative
Length = 50:05
Label = Dangerbird Records
Producer = Billy Bush
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9frxzljld0e link]
*Reax Music Magazine Rating|5|5 [http://www.reaxmusic.com/reviews/view/eric_avery_-_help_wanted-341]
*Blog Critics Magazine [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/07/233601.php]
Last album =
This album = "Help Wanted"
(2008)
Next album =

"Help Wanted" is the debut solo album release from ex-Jane's Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, released on April 8, 2008. [cite web|url=http://dangerbirdrecords.com/releases/eric-avery/eric-avery-help-wanted|title="Eric Avery "Help Wanted" CD (Press release)"|publisher="DangerbirdRecords.com"|accessdate=2007-12-06]

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. [http://music.ign.com/dor/objects/14223194/eric-avery/videos/ericavery_allremote.html]

Tracklist

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

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")

References