Green Monkey Records LLC and Half the World Publishing are usually and generally run by label Prez Tom Dyer along with the steady and able input of Senior VP of Video Howie Wahlen. Green Monkey officially started in 1983, as an offshoot of Dyer's recording studio of the time, TDS Productions, in Seattle, Washington, putting out 44 releases in the ’83 to ’91 period and mostly getting out of it just as every music biz person in Seattle made millions in the post-Nirvana gold rush.

Howie was originally TD's boss at Everybody's Records long ago and handled local sales and distribution in the GMR Mach I phase. After a wot-the-hell conversation, Howie has been on board for the last few years, despite his obvious love of wimp rock.

Since Mach 1, Dyer has spent most of his time in higher education; he has served as faculty and Director of the Audio Production department at the Art Institute of Seattle; as Dean of Academic Affairs at the New England Institute of Art in Boston, Massachusetts; and most recently as President of the Seattle campus of Argosy University.

2009's It Crawled From the Basement: The Green Monkey Records Anthology was the label’s first official release since 1995. The label is putting out a modest but steady stream of releases, with plans to reissue much of its back catalog as well as new and previous unreleased material by Dyer, other GMR Superstars and various oddballs.

TD at GMR HQ