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Help Wanted (Eric Avery album)

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Released
  
April 8, 2008

Length
  
50:05

Artist
  
Eric Avery

Producer
  
Billy Bush

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
2006 – 2007

Help Wanted (2008)
  
LIFE.TIME. (2013)

Release date
  
8 April 2008

Label
  
Dangerbird Records

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Eric avery belly of an insect music video


Help Wanted is the debut solo album release from former Jane's Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, released on April 8, 2008.

Contents

A number of notable guest musicians perform on the record, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Garbage's Shirley Manson, and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and trumpeter Flea and trumpeter Willie Waldman. Harold Barefoot Sanders III, who collaborated with Eric in his band Polar Bear, also contributes on a few tracks. Lastly, Chris Chaney, current 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]

Fishpork ranked it #5 of the year for 2008.

Track list

  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" – 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)" – 4:35
  12. "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, 11)
  • Flea – main horn (11)
  • Willie Waldman – outro horn (11)

    • Songs

    1Belly of an Insect4:24
    2Beside the Fire3:32
    3All Remote and No Control4:03

    References

    Help Wanted (Eric Avery album) Wikipedia
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