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Flat Duo Jets

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2008 - Two Headed Cow
1996 - Red Tango
1995 - Introducing
1993 - Lucky Eye
1993 - White Trees
1993 - Safari
1992 - In Stereo
1991 - Go Go Harlem Baby
1989 - Flat Duo Jets

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2 Male

Origin
Chapel Hill, USA

Genre
Psychobilly

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Dreamy

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1983

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1983 to Present...

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3 users Flat Duo Jets - Frog Went a Courtin'
3 users Flat Duo Jets - Frog Went a Courtin'
3 users Flat Duo Jets - Sing, Sing, Sing
3 users Flat Duo Jets - Rock House
3 users Flat Duo Jets - Rock House


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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.



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