June 11, 2025 • 9 mins
Peter ‘Deany’ Dean took us back to the start of The Jets including lounge room jams, Karratha and favourite venues including The Raffles where the staff would use a rake to get the glass out of the carpet. Clairsy & Lisa also asked about his memories of Bindoon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real would be singing a man at work song to
twelve hundred people, and men at work began the road.
I don't need to the people party in the venue,
but the bands was a wave.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Lie clesian Li says pers Pump Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet
House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city and from the jets Peter DEENI, Dean,
how the heck are you? What was it like listening
to that on the radio again?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I thought? I felt all right, I remember that one. Yeah,
we did that? Sorry? Sorry, what was that?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That sounds like a solid rock band to me, mate, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was coming away to a CDC's likes good to this?
Great songs, aren't they? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Absolutely take us back to the start, Danny. How did
the band get together?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Ah? Basically put it together with a ventanol meadow and
what the band oz in with my brother and that
we both we split up and so the drummer was
was living with us and the guitars were still here
and we're going to go around Australia. So which is
(01:17):
my wife now? And anyway, so I met up with
Fenton and he was saying, you know, I did that,
and I was thinking, that's the same sort of music
I want to play. So I put together in the
land room and had a bit of a jam and
thought this was good. So we just thought, you know,
went up to craft and to put the band together
for two weeks, but we got flooded in and couldn't
(01:39):
think of a name from the band, Like, that's the
hardest thing in the band is thinking of a name. Yeah,
it was. It was Trevor's girlfriend thought what about the
Jets and we thought it sounds a bit corny, but
we had ringing up. Berth was ringing up with the
agent was ringing up. So what's the name of the band?
We need some posters?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Played the four people at the Civic game, two four
friends and really no, no, well, yeah there was there
was some invited industry people, but yeah, loaded their own
gear and that that went from six gigs a weeks
loading their own gear and we only couldn't afford anything
all the money whining production. Yeah, it just went from there.
(02:19):
But honestly, I've been looking at it. I can't believe
the band's been going for forty five years. If they
have a band, and we did a show in a
long weekend down Ravenswood and like fourteen hundred people come
sort of band stand alone.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
From four to fourteen hundred there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, it's a test of time, Dan. Some of the
venues goes just to play. And I mean you mentioned
the Civic there with not that many there, but then
you played the Morley part the Generator quite a bit morely,
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. Yeah, and there was a good band in there
and good fights on a Friday night. Yeah, absolutely, the
guard Pack that was entertaining. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite pub
of all the time. Yeah, per part because we did
traveling fla that was as a rabble stick to the
carpet there they used to rate. It looked like the
(03:13):
parpet like it's been. It was all white. It was
all broken glass. They used to break the glass out
to break yes, right, the broken glass. It was. It
was incredible, but all most well, all those venues are
gone now that I think the Charles is about the
only one hanging on. I do believe the Civics. I
(03:34):
haven't lived in Perth around for twenty years now, so
obviously do pop in. But it was the last show
I hadn't played for five years. So my bass put
in the case and they stayed in the cupboard for
five years to get it out and basically learned to
play again. And singing wise, you never know how you're
going to go and sing to your rehearse. So we've
(03:55):
got the guitarist is overies the new line of guitaris oes,
so're going to fly in him in me in rehearse
and we only get a few days to rehearse, and
then you've got to get out on stage and there's
no like a warm up. You just got to do it.
It's quite scary, and you were quite scary.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You were always you know, the ultimate professionals too with
putting on a show, proper sound, proper lighting. You had
a whole crew behind you, so you didn't really you
never cut corners back in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well that's what the whole idea was, put on a
show something people to look at it like. We toured,
we went to the country towns in wa and he says, well,
but I was brought up in Albury and Perth. Bands
used to come down in the old days with nothing,
and they say, it's only the country who gives it out,
you know. And I always had that and I thought, no,
(04:50):
why should why not if you go and see a
band in Perth or show you want to see that
show we bring down. I remember, I think one of
the first places where when they took the was a
management yep, and they hadn't seen a show like that. Now,
the pyras and that sort of stuff and just blew away.
And even even like Fitchery Crossing. Can you imagine, I
don't if anyone's been the Fitty Crossing, great little town.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, we're talking to roll up there with with a
Fami trailer for the gear and you know, got two
hundred ten light show that all the just blew everyone away.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But the compromise, you know, like just give everyone the
same shape in the quality.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, but you speak of that same hymn book. As
Jane Simmons from kiss Alas said, he and Paul always
said they put on the best show they came wherever
they go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the fans.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, well you know, why just because you lived somewhere differently,
why should you have a second grade show? So we
try and used to go to a place and say
take all your table and chairs, out of your out
of your venue. It says, well, people's got to sip
and said there won't be room for people to sit,
they'll just be standing room. Yeah, but I cannot believe
(06:04):
forty five years, forty five years.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Stop saying it, you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Know, but is a blower with one original member still
left in it, and it's it's it's still selling out.
It's like it's mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Any memories have been do? Oh well, I saw you
guys have been.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What did you are glad that would.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Have been doing the nineteen ninety because Diesel, Young Diesel
was the headlining you guys and Nick Barker and the reptiles.
It was a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What full Diesel it rained when he was on the
used they used to put us on after. I love
being doing. I used to put us on after to
keep the crowd drinking. And yeah, we went we went
on after all the headline accident and we did out
(07:00):
of the ten and yeah, they were great, very well organized. Yeah,
there's a lot of bad negativity and that sort of stuff,
but we never ever saw that we were all the
basically all the games we did lots of them. There's shows.
There was never any trouble never. They were just professional.
(07:23):
I feel like an abas at all. But you never
had any you know, never had any because people were
scared to go to the Raffles Hotel because I thought
it was rough, and then people around and talk to
it wouldn't go there. And you know what I mean,
it's just if you've been to the Raffles, everyone's been Yeah. Yeah,
there's just memories. You've got me thinking you went once
(07:45):
to start thinking.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
About great memory.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yes, you know when you mentioned Peter Dan when I
listened to the Townel nine. Yeah, yeah, there's a story
for you. He used to live fairly close. And I
was at the boat wrapped down. Hillary is there and
he's pulling his boat out and I went up to
him and I said, oh, you made us said, I said,
I'm Peter Dean and here you going and he so said,
(08:12):
he said, right, you're that Feta Dean. So what it was?
I said, I'm getting phone calls to me, I'm getting
phone calls to open a furniture store. And he said,
I'm getting shows to play at a biking party. That's great.
(08:33):
It was a big radio. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, is he still with us, No, we've lost.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
He was the man who used to read it the
final total on telethon before Jeffan.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's that's another thing is there's so many great you said,
legends and all that, but there's so many people that
we've lost, you know, in music, identities and all that.
You know, not just Perth but all round.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's just well, Brian Wilson boys have a night night.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah. You know you listen to it, it's like, oh,
not another one exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I remember when I was young.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I remember when we were young. Don't say forty five
years again, Janny, but we have loved reminiscing with you
this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, good to catch up mate.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You will keep keep rocking it. Yeah, and thank everyone
that's come out and seen the Jets and also all
the other bands and all that sort of stuff and
support live music.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It is getting hard and hard, and I feel really
sorry for the up and coming musicians. But stick there,
hang in there and do what you love.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You enjoyed beautiful, Thanks Danny, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thank you guys for keeping the music alive.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thank you good all the best.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah,
Real would be singing a man at work song to
twelve hundred people, and men at work began the road.
I don't need to the people party in the venue,
but the bands was a wave.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Lie clesian Li says pers Pump Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet
House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city and from the jets Peter DEENI, Dean,
how the heck are you? What was it like listening
to that on the radio again?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I thought? I felt all right, I remember that one. Yeah,
we did that? Sorry? Sorry, what was that?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That sounds like a solid rock band to me, mate, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I was coming away to a CDC's likes good to this?
Great songs, aren't they? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Absolutely take us back to the start, Danny. How did
the band get together?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Ah? Basically put it together with a ventanol meadow and
what the band oz in with my brother and that
we both we split up and so the drummer was
was living with us and the guitars were still here
and we're going to go around Australia. So which is
(01:17):
my wife now? And anyway, so I met up with
Fenton and he was saying, you know, I did that,
and I was thinking, that's the same sort of music
I want to play. So I put together in the
land room and had a bit of a jam and
thought this was good. So we just thought, you know,
went up to craft and to put the band together
for two weeks, but we got flooded in and couldn't
(01:39):
think of a name from the band, Like, that's the
hardest thing in the band is thinking of a name. Yeah,
it was. It was Trevor's girlfriend thought what about the
Jets and we thought it sounds a bit corny, but
we had ringing up. Berth was ringing up with the
agent was ringing up. So what's the name of the band?
We need some posters?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Played the four people at the Civic game, two four
friends and really no, no, well, yeah there was there
was some invited industry people, but yeah, loaded their own
gear and that that went from six gigs a weeks
loading their own gear and we only couldn't afford anything
all the money whining production. Yeah, it just went from there.
(02:19):
But honestly, I've been looking at it. I can't believe
the band's been going for forty five years. If they
have a band, and we did a show in a
long weekend down Ravenswood and like fourteen hundred people come
sort of band stand alone.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
From four to fourteen hundred there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, it's a test of time, Dan. Some of the
venues goes just to play. And I mean you mentioned
the Civic there with not that many there, but then
you played the Morley part the Generator quite a bit morely,
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. Yeah, and there was a good band in there
and good fights on a Friday night. Yeah, absolutely, the
guard Pack that was entertaining. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite pub
of all the time. Yeah, per part because we did
traveling fla that was as a rabble stick to the
carpet there they used to rate. It looked like the
(03:13):
parpet like it's been. It was all white. It was
all broken glass. They used to break the glass out
to break yes, right, the broken glass. It was. It
was incredible, but all most well, all those venues are
gone now that I think the Charles is about the
only one hanging on. I do believe the Civics. I
(03:34):
haven't lived in Perth around for twenty years now, so
obviously do pop in. But it was the last show
I hadn't played for five years. So my bass put
in the case and they stayed in the cupboard for
five years to get it out and basically learned to
play again. And singing wise, you never know how you're
going to go and sing to your rehearse. So we've
(03:55):
got the guitarist is overies the new line of guitaris oes,
so're going to fly in him in me in rehearse
and we only get a few days to rehearse, and
then you've got to get out on stage and there's
no like a warm up. You just got to do it.
It's quite scary, and you were quite scary.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You were always you know, the ultimate professionals too with
putting on a show, proper sound, proper lighting. You had
a whole crew behind you, so you didn't really you
never cut corners back in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well that's what the whole idea was, put on a
show something people to look at it like. We toured,
we went to the country towns in wa and he says, well,
but I was brought up in Albury and Perth. Bands
used to come down in the old days with nothing,
and they say, it's only the country who gives it out,
you know. And I always had that and I thought, no,
(04:50):
why should why not if you go and see a
band in Perth or show you want to see that
show we bring down. I remember, I think one of
the first places where when they took the was a
management yep, and they hadn't seen a show like that. Now,
the pyras and that sort of stuff and just blew away.
And even even like Fitchery Crossing. Can you imagine, I
don't if anyone's been the Fitty Crossing, great little town.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah, we're talking to roll up there with with a
Fami trailer for the gear and you know, got two
hundred ten light show that all the just blew everyone away.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But the compromise, you know, like just give everyone the
same shape in the quality.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, but you speak of that same hymn book. As
Jane Simmons from kiss Alas said, he and Paul always
said they put on the best show they came wherever
they go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the fans.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, well you know, why just because you lived somewhere differently,
why should you have a second grade show? So we
try and used to go to a place and say
take all your table and chairs, out of your out
of your venue. It says, well, people's got to sip
and said there won't be room for people to sit,
they'll just be standing room. Yeah, but I cannot believe
(06:04):
forty five years, forty five years.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Stop saying it, you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Know, but is a blower with one original member still
left in it, and it's it's it's still selling out.
It's like it's mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Any memories have been do? Oh well, I saw you
guys have been.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What did you are glad that would.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Have been doing the nineteen ninety because Diesel, Young Diesel
was the headlining you guys and Nick Barker and the reptiles.
It was a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What full Diesel it rained when he was on the
used they used to put us on after. I love
being doing. I used to put us on after to
keep the crowd drinking. And yeah, we went we went
on after all the headline accident and we did out
(07:00):
of the ten and yeah, they were great, very well organized. Yeah,
there's a lot of bad negativity and that sort of stuff,
but we never ever saw that we were all the
basically all the games we did lots of them. There's shows.
There was never any trouble never. They were just professional.
(07:23):
I feel like an abas at all. But you never
had any you know, never had any because people were
scared to go to the Raffles Hotel because I thought
it was rough, and then people around and talk to
it wouldn't go there. And you know what I mean,
it's just if you've been to the Raffles, everyone's been Yeah. Yeah,
there's just memories. You've got me thinking you went once
(07:45):
to start thinking.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
About great memory.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yes, you know when you mentioned Peter Dan when I
listened to the Townel nine. Yeah, yeah, there's a story
for you. He used to live fairly close. And I
was at the boat wrapped down. Hillary is there and
he's pulling his boat out and I went up to
him and I said, oh, you made us said, I said,
I'm Peter Dean and here you going and he so said,
(08:12):
he said, right, you're that Feta Dean. So what it was?
I said, I'm getting phone calls to me, I'm getting
phone calls to open a furniture store. And he said,
I'm getting shows to play at a biking party. That's great.
(08:33):
It was a big radio. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, is he still with us, No, we've lost.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
He was the man who used to read it the
final total on telethon before Jeffan.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's that's another thing is there's so many great you said,
legends and all that, but there's so many people that
we've lost, you know, in music, identities and all that.
You know, not just Perth but all round.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's just well, Brian Wilson boys have a night night.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah. You know you listen to it, it's like, oh,
not another one exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I remember when I was young.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I remember when we were young. Don't say forty five
years again, Janny, but we have loved reminiscing with you
this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, good to catch up mate.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You will keep keep rocking it. Yeah, and thank everyone
that's come out and seen the Jets and also all
the other bands and all that sort of stuff and
support live music.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It is getting hard and hard, and I feel really
sorry for the up and coming musicians. But stick there,
hang in there and do what you love.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You enjoyed beautiful, Thanks Danny, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thank you guys for keeping the music alive.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thank you good all the best.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah,
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