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Yeah, we’ve been out there in Berlin to record a whole pack of songs at the marvelous Lightning Recorders Studio. It was an amazing experience enjoying professional technical attention and empathic support there. All that in an authentic and inspiring atmosphere of analog vintage equipment and record processing as they did in the fifties.

After working hard at studio we had the privilege to play – a little bit exhausted – with the terrific three-piece-band Ike & the Capers for the club home of rock´n´roll Berlin. Those engaged people keep on providing rock´n´roll-events with a lot of passion even after the loss of their permanent venue.

Special thanks to Axel and a lot of thanks and best greetings from the bottom of our hearts to those likable people in the east of Berlin!

Stay tuned for the musical outcome…

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“In disreputable juke joints of vintage … bounding rocket-men like this were slapped on the back and pronounced to have `gotten the sock´. Here breathes craze without bridle.“

DC Larson´s Jukebox Jury (USA), Jan 2019 

Their first releases on vinyl implied some fine reactions among international professional circles.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own town… This is exactly what happened to these brave Don Quixotes of Rock´n´Roll. To be correct: Of Rockabilly, that echo-soaked and unpolished sound which started in the middle of the 1950s at the Sun-records studios, Memphis/ Tennessee, when a young Elvis Presley came through the door.

Very roughly speaking, it´s a wild mixture between so called “black” Rythm´n´Blues and “white” Country-music. It is sung about invitation to dance, about weltschmerz and heartbreak and – more or less directly – sex. All this with the rebellious attitude of the 50s youth movement – often condemned as “youth deliquency”. 

Some parting companion asked Joe Dee & his JetTones ironically: “You just never quit trying, do you?”. There´s no other way to respond as once did Winston Churchill.  And so it came that those 4 guys at their best age are still indulging their passion for honest, hand-made and explicit music. Through good and bad times.

Whole lotta practice didn´t make them worse – and special times like these just seem to bring the best of themselves to light. Youthful and modern like in it´s early days.

No wonder that Joe Dee & his JetTones became one of the most booked bands in Vienna since they´ve invented such a thing as “lockdown”. 

Enough said.

Join it & Shake a leg!

joedee.org

Our mission is easy to understand but seems hard to put into practice.

We said, we did.

Joe Dee & his JetTones were the last rockabillies standing on September 29, 2020 live open air at Wallensteinplatz, Vienna.

Joe Dee & his JetTones were one of the first rockabillies raising again on May 21, 2021 at Louisiana Blues Pub.

Watch out for next dates, at the moment they appear very spontaneously.

We´re not back – we´ve never been away!

Rock´n´Roll is here to stay.

Keeping it alive means keeping it “live”. No compromises.

If you like to get one (or more) of those records, just write us

restive@linuxmail.org

Keep on rockin´n´rollin´!

Take a look at the brandnew Rockabilly-Homepage halbwild.org!

JOE DEE AND HIS JEtTONES

contact / booking:

restive@linuxmail.org

Book that real hot and authentic Rockabilly – Band from Vienna, Austria! But don´t hasitate to ask if you want to rock´n´roll somewhere else. We are even ready to go to the stars if you send us one of them rocket-ships.

Buche diese wirklich heiße und authentische Rockabilly – Band aus Wien, Österreich! Aber zögere nicht zu fragen, wenn Du wo anders eine Rock´n´Roll – Party schmeissen willst. Wir fliegen auch bis zu den Sternen wenn Du uns eines von diesen Raumschiffen vorbei schickst.

Listen to that!

Music is direct communication, is coming together, is sing-along, is resonance, is relationship between musicians and audience, listeners and dancers… and – compared with that –  it´s nearly nothing without the experience of live-music events.

It´s like love-making, the same old but never boring things human beings do since they populate this planet. Digital communication is an additional tool but could never be an equivalent substitute.

So you´ll never see Joe Dee & his JetTones making “online-concerts” but in a near future you could see and feel them making Rock´n´Roll with flesh, blood and bones (and and a lot of other physical and sensual impressions).

Real live in person.

 

go for some rockabilly-music here….