Help Wanted is the debut solo album

Solo album

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 release from former Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...

 bassist, Eric Avery

Eric Avery

Eric Adam Avery is an American musician and is the former bass player for the rock band Jane's Addiction. Avery played in Jane's Addiction initially from 1985 to 1991, and rejoined the band in 2008 before departing again in 2010....

, released on April 8, 2008.

A number of notable guest musicians perform on the record, including Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters

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' Taylor Hawkins

Taylor Hawkins

Oliver Taylor Hawkins is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters....

, Garbage

Garbage (band)

Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...

's Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson

Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...

, and trumpeters Flea

Flea (musician)

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 and Willie Waldman. Harold Barefoot Sanders III, who collaborated with Eric in his band Polar Bear

Polar Bear (rock)

For other uses of the term 'Polar Bear', see Polar Bear Polarbear was a Los Angeles-based band led by former Jane's Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, who formed the band with Biff Sanders, formerly of Ethyl Meatplow, as a side project. They recorded most of their music in downtown Los Angeles, at...

, also contributes on a few tracks. Lastly, Chris Chaney

Chris Chaney

Chris Chaney is a rock bass player who has performed with artists including Jane's Addiction, Alanis Morissette, Slash, and many others. He was the bass player in the third incarnation of Jane's Addiction and a member of Morissette's touring and recording band for seven years...

, current bassist of Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...

, plays on a song along with his fellow band-mate of The Coattail Riders

Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders

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.

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

Fishpork ranked it #5 of the year for 2008.

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" - 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
  Taylor Hawkins
  Oliver Taylor Hawkins is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters....
  
   - 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
  Shirley Manson
  Shirley Anne Manson is a Scottish recording artist and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and...
  
   - Lyric co-writing and vocal (5)
• Jonathan Larroquette - Synth (6)
• Adam Somers - Modular synth (6)
• Chris Chaney
  Chris Chaney
  Chris Chaney is a rock bass player who has performed with artists including Jane's Addiction, Alanis Morissette, Slash, and many others. He was the bass player in the third incarnation of Jane's Addiction and a member of Morissette's touring and recording band for seven years...
  
   - Bass (7)
• Zac Rae - Keys (7, 11), Wurly (10)
• Matt Tecu - Drums (10, 11)
• Flea
  Flea (musician)
  Michael Peter Balzary , better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...
  
   - Main horn (11)
• Willie Waldman - Outro horn (11)