Artist Name
Flat Duo Jets

heart icon off (0 users)
Logo
transparent

Artist Image
artist thumb

Functions

transparent
Data Complete
percent bar 50%

Album Releases refreshview
album thumb
Two Headed Cow (2008)
album thumb
Red Tango (1996)
album thumb
Introducing (1995)
album thumb
Lucky Eye (1993)
album thumb
White Trees (1993)
album thumb
Safari (1993)
album thumb
In Stereo (1992)
album thumb
Go Go Harlem Baby (1991)
album thumb
Flat Duo Jets (1989)


Members
members icon 2 Male

Origin
flag Chapel Hill, USA

Genre
genre icon Psychobilly

Style
style icon Rock/Pop

Mood
mood icon Dreamy

Born

born icon 1983

Active
calendar icon 1983 to Present...

Cutout
transparent

heart icon Most Loved Tracks
3 users heart off Flat Duo Jets - Frog Went a Courtin'
3 users heart off Flat Duo Jets - Frog Went a Courtin'
3 users heart off Flat Duo Jets - Sing, Sing, Sing
3 users heart off Flat Duo Jets - Rock House
3 users heart off Flat Duo Jets - Rock House


youtube icon Music Video Links
No Music Videos Found...



Artist Biography
Available in: gb icon
Flat Duo Jets was an American psychobilly band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Athens, Georgia. They were a major influence on several bands of the 1990s and 2000s, including The White Stripes. In interviews, Jack White (the White Stripes' lead singer and guitarist) has often acknowledged Dexter Romweber's influence.

Their first album, Flat Duo Jets, was recorded direct to two tracks in a garage in the late 1980s but not released until early 1990, the same year in which the band opened for The Cramps on a national tour of the US. Jim Dickinson produced their second LP, Go Go Harlem Baby. Their ninth and last studio album, Lucky Eye, was their first major label release (Outpost Records). It was produced by Scott Litt, best known as a producer of R.E.M..

Singer/guitarist Dexter Romweber has pursued a solo career since the 1999 break up of the Flat Duo Jets and has toured with Cat Power, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Neko Case and others. His older sister, Sara Romweber, a founding member of Snatches of Pink, plays drums with her brother as the Dexter Romweber Duo.

The Flat Duo Jets' drummer, Crow Smith, resurfaced in 2005 with a debut solo album of his own. The bass guitarist, Tone Mayer, played with Romweber from 1979 and helped form an earlier band, The Kamikazees, in 1983. Mayer left the Duo Jets around 1990 to join The Chicken Wire Gang.

In 2008, nearly ten years after the band's demise, a live soundtrack to Two Headed Cow, a documentary film about Dexter and the Flat Duo Jets, was released.

wiki icon

Wide Thumb
transparent

Clearart
transparent

Fanart

transparent icontransparent icon

Banner
transparent icon

User Comments

transparent iconNo comments yet..


Status
unlocked icon Unlocked
Last Edit by brohawk
27th May 2014

Socials


Streaming


External Links
fanart.tv icon musicbrainz icon last.fm icon website icon unlocked iconamazon icon