#flat duo jets

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RIP Dexter Romweber.

He was the real deal...

“TWO-HEADED COW”

A documentary about Flat Duo Jets frontman Dexter Romweber. Directed by Tony Gayton and edited (and partially shot) by Charles Wing.

[musickickztoo]

RIP Dexter "Dex" Romweber

June 18, 1966 – February 16, 2024

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Rest In Peace, Dexter Romweber.

His raucous, stripped down guitar and drums songs were an inspiration for Jack White among many others.

He was only 57.

[walkingthehalls]

Dex to Jack

The strength of that musical DNA

[iamdangerace]

R.I.P. John Michael Dexter "Dex" Romweber.

[chronivore]

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper with the Flat Duo Jets

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Flat Duo Jets - Athens, GA: Inside/Out

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Flat Duo Jets Founder Dexter Romweber Dies at 57

- “He wasn’t a rock ‘n’ roll musician, he WAS rock ‘n’ roll inside and out,” Jack White says

Dexter Romweber, the co-founder and leader of North Carolina’s Flat Duo Jets, died Feb. 16 of apparent natural causes, his family said.

Romweber was 57 and his family remembered him as a “singer, guitarist, artist and bon vivant … one of the most acclaimed artists of the roots-rock underground.”

Jack White concurred.

“He wasn’t a rock ‘n’ roll musician, he WAS rock ‘n’ roll inside and out, without even having to try, he couldn’t help himself,” White said in a statement.

“People toss that around a lot, but in Dex’s case it was actually true. To call him punk would be like calling the Great Pyramid a sand castle.”

Sarah Shook eulogized Romweber as a singular “iconoclast” with “an intrinsic understanding of the essence of rock ‘n’ roll and a mind for music nobody else could fathom much less replicate.”

Romweber made more than one-dozen album between the Jets and subsequent musical pairings. His most recent solo album, Good Thing Goin’, arrived in 2023.

Romweber was “responsible for me playing guitar,” Cat Power said.

“I cannot comprehend a world without you, Dexter,” she wrote on social media.

2/18/24

[nightfallwolfkin]

RIP Dexter Romweber

This guy was such a vivid part of the mid-80s stage of my formative years. Definitely my introduction to rockabilly. It was weird moving away to distant states and meeting people who recognised him when they saw the Flat Duo Jets fliers on my wall. I didn't know at the time that he'd escaped North Carolina containment and was nationally known, and to see him show up on Letterman a few years later was surreal. It didn't surprise me to learn how many artists he inspired. What's really, really weird about this video, though, is seeing him with freshly washed hair. ;-) For me he'll always be the crazy, grubby, wild-haired guitar-slinging weirdo from the streets of Chapel Hill.

[flight-to-mars]

RIP Dexter Romweber

Saw him live twice and he is a literal force of nature. I can't pick a single song above them all but a "played most" search of my laptop put this first. Is That You In The Blue? (youtube.com)

[oyvinja]

God damn it, the energy and antics and body language of Dexter in this performance is wild!

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18: Various Artists // Athens, GA.—Inside/Out

Various Artists Athens, GA.—Inside/Out 1987, IRS Athens, Georgia is currently the 218th most populous city in the United States, but between the B-52s’ 1979 breakthrough and the mid-2000s it was one of the world’s key incubators of college/alternative/indie rock. Athens, GA.—Inside/Out, the soundtrack to a quirky local documentary, is a great snapshot of the scene as it existed circa 1986. In some ways, the track list is evocative of the ecosystem in any thriving music town: the revered pioneer that never quite blew up (Pylon); the true phenomenon (R.E.M.); the anointed next big thing (Dreams So Real); the durable live favs (Love Tractor); the non-entities (Time Toy); the last to know they're going nowhere (Bar-B-Q Killers).

In its details, however, Athens' sounds were as woolly and unique as you’d expect of a scene breach-birthed from the temple of the B-52s. These recordings, mostly live takes recorded for the doc in local rock clubs, a frat house porch, and even the chapel of a nineteenth century girls’ school (R.E.M., of course), reveal strains of new wave and post-punk that’ve evolved in relative isolation from the coastal meccas. Of the lesser-known Athens acts, Squalls make the best impression, offering two infectious, endearingly goofy bops that may lodge themselves in your ears for days.

One can quibble about the presence of Carrboro, North Carolina’s Flat Duo Jets, who apparently moved to Athens for all of three months (possibly in order to get themselves into the movie) before peeling out of town—but their ferocious “Jet Tone Boogie” might be the standout of the whole LP. The absence of the B-52s is notable (as they do appear in the documentary), but it’s hard to ding the comp too much for it as it leaves more room for artists who would otherwise be (even more) lost to history.

No single LP compilation focused on a year in the life of a rich scene could hope to be comprehensive, considering how many of Athens’ finest acts had such short life spans (e.g. Oh-OK, Pylon, The Method Actors). But for what it is, Inside/Out is a valuable addition to the collection of anyone who is an appreciative sicko for this era of alternative music.

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Dexter Romweber

June 18, 1966 – February 16, 2024

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Mojo and Skid with Flat Duo Jets...