Wayne Avers is a guitarist, vocalist, and composer and is endorsed by major guitar companies. He is best known for his long association with The Monkees. In 1990 Avers was asked to join the band Breakaway, which was hired to back Davy Jones on Jones’s solo concerts. From there he connected with Micky Dolenz and joined Dolenz’s band, also becoming music director. From the mid-90s on, Avers became a cornerstone lead guitarist and (eventual) music director for all their reunion tours. Avers also releases his own music as The Wayne Avers Group, doing instrumental music that mixes surf rock, jazz fusion, and spaghetti-western soundtrack genres. The sought-after guitarist has also performed with Rick Derringer, Mark Lindsay, The Teen Idols, and other notables.