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Jeffrey Wegener (b. 1955) is an Australian musician, who played drums in such bands as the Saints, The Last Words, and Laughing Clowns.

Career
Following a short period as drummer for the Saints in Brisbane with Ed Kuepper, Jeffrey Wegener left the band in 1975. He then joined one of Sydney's first punk bands The Last Words as an original member, but left again after only a few months. Wegener next moved to Melbourne to join Young Charlatans with Rowland S. Howard and Ian ‘Ollie’ Olsen.

After the Saints broke up, Ed Kuepper formed a new band in 1979 with Wegener, Bob Farrell and Ben Wallace-Crabbe, called Laughing Clowns. After several tours and albums, they broke up in 1984 while recording their final album Ghosts Of An Ideal Wife. Around this time, the Saints had reformed, and Wegener joined again as drummer in 1985, after briefly sitting in for The Birthday Party.

After some years struggling with addiction and spending some time in jail, Wegener returned to playing drums again in the early 2000s, and reunited with Kuepper again for a series of performances. This led to the formation of a new trio, Kowalski Collective, with Peter Oxley, and the release of an album Jean Lee And The Yellow Dog in 2007.

In 2019, Wegener performed as part of a duo with Australian jazz saxophonist Mark Simmonds, which would transpire to be Simmonds' last gig before he died.