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JOE DEE AND HIS JETtONES – since 2016

Rumors (March 2024)

As old fans of ours know: most of the rumors about our band are true. All except this one: that we are not going on.
Yes, it’s true, singer Joe Dee has left town. In the direction of Paris. Not to the well-known Paris, Texas, (as many would assume) but to the also quite pretty Paris, France. That’s why we haven’t made as many public appearances in and around Vienna as usual.
And yes, the new album has not been released yet.
But: the album is on its way, there are only a few more technical steps left.

Joe Dee will continue his musical activities in France with another band. And Joe Dee & his JetTones will also be performing again.
Release gigs can be expected in the coming months in the Vienna area.
So stay tuned and find out more here.

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Rockabilly Bombardement Hohenems

November 2023

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August 2023

Catzilla

Recording at Lightning Recorders Berlin

April 2023

Yeah, we’ve been out there in Berlin to record a whole pack of songs at the marvelous Lightning RecordersStudio. 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…

comeback without having been away

fall 2021

“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.

Enough said.

Join it & Shake a leg!

the great rockabilly survival – the pandemic years

MAY 7, 2020

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.

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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.

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So Joe Dee & his JetTones became one of the most booked bands in Vienna during the whole period of pandemic and anti-covid-measurements (most of the gigs were open-air). In Vienna we had the most severe of them in the field of culture all over Europe.

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Our very special guest star: AL COOK, Austrian blues- and rockabilly-legend, live at rhiz, Vienna, July 26, 2019.

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latest news, May 2018

I guess it´s been a long, long time since you´ve heard something about Joe Dee&His JetTones, except rumours which probably all might be true (or become truer sooner or later). All but that one, that we will loose our long breath and give up. Rockabilly in it´s true and direct way – whatever the zeitgeist says – will always be modern.

That doesnt´t mean we where inactive all that time: We´ve been recording like crazy in our jungle-room home-studio. We´ve set about 10 self-written poems from our teenie-friendship-books (1966-1985) to music. But there are also some old man´s tales, pregnant with meaning, mourning and dismalness.

However we´ll contribute a song to one of the marvelous Plan 9 trash records´ “Schnitzelbilly“-samplers, followed or preceded by an EP. Both certainly on vinyl.

While we are an declared low-digitalized band it´s sadly unavoidable to have some internet-videos and soundfiles too. You won´t believe, but there are some people out there who think that you don´t exist without having published lots of online-rubbish!

So watch out and beware of some low-flying discs, they might change your listening-behaviour!

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It became a tradition: Vienna´s grandmaster of blues and pioneer of rockabilly Al Cook performing “Shake, Rattle & Roll” and “All Shook Up” with Joe Dee & His JetTones: