20 Facts About Eric Avery

Eric Adam Avery was born on April 25,1965 and is an American musician.

Eric Avery is best known as the founding bass guitarist and co-songwriter of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, with whom he has recorded two studio albums.

From 2005 to 2022, Avery was the bassist for Garbage, which he joined as sideman and with whom he recorded three studio albums.

The original core line-up of the band embarked on a co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails, with Eric Avery departing in 2010 due to ongoing tensions with Farrell.

In 2022, Eric Avery rejoined Jane's Addiction after a twelve-year absence, in advance of a co-headlining tour with the Smashing Pumpkins.

Alongside his work with Jane's Addiction, Eric Avery is a former member of Alanis Morissette's backing band, and has been a touring and session musician for Garbage since 2005, contributing to the albums, Not Your Kind of People, Strange Little Birds and No Gods No Masters.

Eric Avery unofficially joined the Smashing Pumpkins in 2006 for a short spell, and was briefly a member of the rock supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra.

Eric Avery went on to St Monica High School of Santa Monica, California, and Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.

Eric Avery participated in the Deconstruction project with Navarro immediately after Jane's Addiction's breakup, but initially declined invitations for Jane's reunions.

Eric Avery has recorded tracks for, toured with and briefly dated Alanis Morissette, as well as creating another side project, Polar Bear, in 1994.

Eric Avery was once suggested as the replacement bassist for Tool by former Jane's Addiction and then-current Tool manager Ted Gardner.

Eric Avery declined the invitation, saying he wanted to concentrate on Polar Bear.

Eric Avery toured with the band Garbage to promote 2005's Bleed Like Me.

Eric Avery has performed with Peter Murphy, on tour and on 2004's Unshattered.

Eric Avery worked briefly with the revived Smashing Pumpkins, but ultimately did not join the band.

Eric Avery released his debut solo album Help Wanted in April 2008 through Dangerbird Records.

Eric Avery has since performed in the two Garbage tours that followed, the band's 20th anniversary tour and the one for the album Strange Little Birds, in which Eric Avery plays bass in six tracks.

Eric Avery was slated to perform in the Twenty Thirteen Tour from Summer 2013 into 2014, but announced his withdrawal on May 15,2013, stating that after a year travelling with Garbage he did not feel like going on another extended tour.

Eric Avery composed the original soundtrack for Show Me What You Got, written and directed by Svetlana Cvetko and winner of the Grand Jury Prize 'Best Film' at Taormina Film Festival in 2019.

On his solo career, Eric Avery only played the bass at the final stages of Help Wanted, instead "focused on gadgets and keyboards and guitars and vocals and lyrics and other things like that".