Comments on: Bret Treasure writes about his father Brian Treasure – Former joint Managing Director of TVW http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/bret-treasure-writes-about-his-father-brian-treasure-former-joint-managing-director-of-tvw/ History of Western Australia's Television Industry Mon, 18 Jul 2022 03:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Pete Reilich http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/bret-treasure-writes-about-his-father-brian-treasure-former-joint-managing-director-of-tvw/comment-page-1/#comment-28131 Sat, 14 May 2016 18:57:37 +0000 http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/bret-treasure-writes-about-his-father-brian-treasure-former-joint-managing-director-of-tvw/#comment-28131 “This is a glamorous industry and it’s a fickle industry. Talented people are overlooked and lose their jobs and we are all subject to the same management mistakes and insensitivities that occur whenever people do business together. If that happened to you, don’t let it define you; you’re bigger than that.”

Thank you for that.

I was browsing down melody lane web style & came across Brian Treasure, who I remember meeting in 1978. I was the pianist in Boz Scaggs tour band that year when we visited Perth and played at the Entertainment Centre. He was a fascinating man and, although I wasn’t aware at the time of how important he was to Perth and Australian TV etc, I find this article/photos extremely interesting & inspiring.

Those few days at Perth, almost 40 years ago, was the only time I’ve ever been to your neck of the world. Yet ever since, I’ve thought of retiring at Perth. Of the places we toured with Boz, Perth was my favorite. In fact, it’s my favorite city of all the towns I’ve visited on music tours through the years including Europe, Japan, USA etc. Probably this is because of the weather similarity to my hometown Los Angeles (born/raised) and how Perth is like a mirror in some ways to LA, leaving out the bad parts & retaining the better ones.

I wasn’t the only musician on that tour who fell in love with Oz. Two others, Vanetta Fields and Scott Shelly did as well. Scott has lived for aat least two decades now at Coolangatta suburb of Gold Beach & has become successful in his music endeavors including scoring music for the croc hunter shows & video games etc.

Anyway, thanks for the great article. Wish me luck on someday making it back to Perth.

Pete Reilich

]]> By: Debbie Treasure http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/bret-treasure-writes-about-his-father-brian-treasure-former-joint-managing-director-of-tvw/comment-page-1/#comment-1725 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:26:29 +0000 http://watvhistory.com/2009/10/bret-treasure-writes-about-his-father-brian-treasure-former-joint-managing-director-of-tvw/#comment-1725 Im now relating to the expression ‘there’s nothing like the good old days’

we were one big very happy family, and we all knew who the boss was.

TVW Perth took a leap in creative direction and filled its viewers hearts.

The worst day of Dad’s life was when he was voted off the board, he had to leave because of an accident that wasn’t even his fault, after he left, no one of the staff was allowed to visit him or they were to be fired, it broke his heart, that’s why he died so young, he kept it all inside.

He kept going making more accomplishments, 96fm radio station, the next commercial television license, everything he did was a major success, but he never got over the back stab of that time in TVW, they were the best days of his life, and he was the best

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