After glaring at one another uncertainly for a few months, the two decided to become lifelong friends. A mutual appreciation of and overwhelming desire to BE the Beatles, as well as established abilities with the guitar and the voice (JB had strummed and sung for some years on his own, and Peter had been the driving force of the internationally acclaimed band, the Billy Goats, since the age of fifteen), led them to a joining of their musical wonder-twin powers.

JB and Peter's first (somewhat) real public performance was for their classmates on the train heading south to Florida for Spring Break in 1985, during which they flipped through a handy pocket Beatles songbook that JB had brought along and bopped out several songs. Reaction to this performance went unrecorded, but they must have done okay, because they were still alive when they reached Daytona Beach. JB had been the only male who was MAN ENOUGH to be a member of Huguenot Academy Senior Chorus that year, and Peter had joined him onstage at a school function to perform the Beatles' "Michelle" and "Eight Days a Week", but they were so dreadfully rendered that it scarcely even counts.

JB fled to Radford University in Western VA after high school, where he fronted the critically acclaimed cover band JB and the Jeterbugs, entertaining crowds of drunken students, and in the process meeting his lovely future wife, Jill. Upon completing his education with a degree in Entertaining Drunken Gatherings, JB returned to the greater Richmond area, where he, Peter and Billy Goats founding member Jeffrey M. Leahy formed the Fiendish Thingies.

The Thingies were a cover band created for the specific purpose of entertaining the throng at Peter's sister Jennifer's wedding reception on September 10, 1988, but they hung on long enough to play at several family-oriented occasions, making their "First Farewell Performance" at Jennifer's birthday party on June 22, 1989.
In January of 1990 JB and Peter travelled to Rochester to join Jeff and former Zero Boys drummer Greg to perform one show as the Billy Goats at a bar called Backstreets: JB, who had not been out of VA before this fabled event, played rhythm guitar and sang some backing vocals on Peter and Jeff's original songs. They were paid with a very small amount of free beer.

JB and Peter first started performing in their current configuration of Peter and Jeter in the late 90's for various occasions at the recently renamed Blessed Sacrament at Huguenot (previously Huguenot Academy for those keeping score @ home), such as the fabulously successful Comedy Night and the Beef and Music Festival.
In 2001 JB recruited college pal Jack Taggart and rerecruited Peter to form seminal "B-side cowpunk" cover band the Illbillys. They were joined by guitarist Joe Bales in 2006.

Peter and Jeter continued the tradition of serving as musical monkeys to meet the needs of their alma mater by reinagurating the P&J franchise at a Forensics competition at BSH in March, 2008. Today they continue to make large noises with the Illbillys, and smaller, more poignant ones as Peter and Jeter.