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About Me

WELL TRAINED MONKEY

is: Wayne Sayres, Minneapolis based musician and composer. Pleasedtameetcha!

Most of the tracks featured here are studio numbers produced in Fractal Music 2000 and Rhythm Rascal and then worked up further in Adobe Audition. I'll often add live instrumentation after the programming phase is completed. I play guitar, bass, and alto saxophone in addition to software tweakage and sampler bleeps. I write and compose songs in a variety of styles from electronica to folk to Polynesian to jazz and rock, so there will be more material coming up that will be in different styles entirely. Check on back now and then for more.

Frequent collaborators for me have included Rube and Groove 633 (see below).

Currently I get out to play live sax occasionally with the great Minneapolis band Lost Marbles. You can catch the Marbles every first, third, and occasionally fifth Monday night of the month at Whiskey Junction on Minneapolis' West Bank, it's always a damn good time!

-Wayne

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/3/2006
Band Members:
Influences: electro prog rock alt jazz blues hiphop folk bluegrass punk country southern rock metal psych and rockabilly; Rush, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Cyprus Hill, Martin Denny, Yes, Waylon Jennings, Mu-Ziq, Amon Tobin, Jeff Beck, Squarepusher, Philip K. Dick, Beastie Boys, Henry Mancini, Jack Kerouac, Garbage, Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Judd Apatow, Nirvana, Dave Brubeck, Ramones, Frank Black, The Pixies, Eddie Harris, Bill Monroe, Film Noir, Dan O'Bannon, Ministry, Star Wars, New Kingdom, Monty Python, George Clinton, Billy Wilder, Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead, Old & In the Way, Big Black, Johnny Cash, Nine inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Jerry Jeff Walker, Stephen King, John Prine, cats, dogs, found sounds, all my dear friends - it's endless really.
Sounds Like:

progressive rock performed by machines/ regressive folk and blues played by degenerates/ funky jazz fusion, and messy art rock.

Record Label: seeking label; till then it's "Well Trained Music"
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Notes on New Trax

Greets everyone-- Had a helluva lotta fun with the new tracks that are up. As posted in a bulletin, I played some bass on "Riddled with Rumm" over the Rhythm Rascal programmed marimba jams, doub...
Posted by WELL TRAINED MONKEY on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:46:00 PST

HAPPY ST. PATTYS DAY

Greets one and all, and I hope you are having the greenest of green days celebrating an Irish heritage whether it flows in yer veins all the time or just today. Here are a few of my...
Posted by WELL TRAINED MONKEY on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:11:00 PST

Rube's Record Release Party SATURDAY NIGHT

Dear Friends, Here's an unofficial reminder to come out to the Rube's Record Release Party for the new 12", "Another Gone Record" on Jazz & Milk Records, this Saturday night at the 331 Club in be...
Posted by WELL TRAINED MONKEY on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:21:00 PST

Celine Dion is my friend! Yay!

The real reason I approved the inexplicable friend request from Celine Dion is to tell this story. When I was on a National Theatre for Children tour in '98 I was in Laredo TX, or thereabouts, and I h...
Posted by WELL TRAINED MONKEY on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:00:00 PST

new/used music - "Robot's Vacation"

Hello, all-- I've recently posted a new track to my music section entitled, "Robot's Vacation." It's a golden oldie that I composed on Fractal Music 2000 way back around aught three or four tha...
Posted by WELL TRAINED MONKEY on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:24:00 PST