Flat Duo Jets - Crazy Woman

[rockerz4ever21]

jeese everyone shut up you can like the jack white and dex holy crap

[smokeemonkee]

The way I look at it The Flat Duo Jets and Dexter Romwebber are the real deal , from the heart, and Dex started back when they weren't too many like them. Heck, the Cramps were still pretty new at that time! The White Stripes are the result of good marketing, sold lots of units to a trendy, fickle music audience and became popular and achieved success but not for musical merit.

Dex is a special guy, one of the nicest guys ever. Maybe he's just too real for people who like trendy posers.

[OGKush2010]

the way i see it, the white stripes are good fucking music, where as the flat duo jets are good fucking music, having their roots in good fucking music. I'm sure neither band would want you lot classifying and over annalysing their music instead of listening and appreciating whole-heartedly.

[jordanpb69]

Fuck the White Stripes! Dex has been doing this shit before them and he is doing it without them. We should be talking about Link Wray and the artist that influenced Dex!

[SwampDaddy7]

The White Stripes are Delta Garage. The Flat Duo Jets are Rockabilly Insanity. Love both bands and the fact that Jack is one cool dude for seeing the true Rock N' Roll artists makes for just one potent mix of badass. Personally, I'd love to see the White Stripes/Flat Duo Jets do a "Dueling Duos" kinda show.

[jameswsantafe]

I first saw Dex in Chapel Hill, I think he was about 15 and playing for a Friends School rummage sale. They tore it up.

[stude444]

I really like the Flat Duo Jets but The White Stripes burned a peppermint place in my mind, and they will always mean a lot to me.

[DrownInGrace88]

who in the fuck is jack white ?

[loping2]

What is Cris Crow up to these days?

[deathwish959]

i think the only reason that the white stripes are so much more popular is because jack white changed the way the way someone can play the guitar. but i also dont think he gives the flat duo jets enough credit

[knopfler1993]

@deathwish959 yeah but don't forget Jack White wasn't a full on rockabilly guitarist, he was inspired by a number of guitarists: Elvis, Son House, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan. Dexter Romweber is just one of his influences he ws blown away by. So It goes back to what mfboom23 and surfercrow said. None the less a good inspiration at that

[mfboom23]

I think the white stripes are popular because they came out with this style at a time when people wanted real things because now a days things are fake so the flat duo jets were just ahead of their time, but who cares they would have rock with or without fame so........

[mandaltby]

power duo rocks

like a double barrel shot gun

[SwampDaddy7]

@mandaltby That's 'cause they ARE a double-barreled shotgun of awesomeness.

[colchesterton]

...the stuff that dreams are made of.

[SonofThor73]

These guys were the ultimate Power Duo! Kick out the jams mamma jammas!

[FrancisIIIBibeau]

yeah i wish they were still playing...do they.Well we got the white stripes..do we lol hard to say.

[bigdaddypaint]

yeah he still plays and his name is Dexter Romweber idiot!!! Didn't Jack White tell you his real name?

[georgemasiello]

Fair enough...but JW can play whatever kind of music he wants and pull it off. I want to see him put out a 100% blues album!

[surfercrow]

To my ears, Dexter Romweber plays Rock AND Roll. Flat Duo Jets were Rock & Roll, whereas The White Stripes, Raconteurs,etc. is 'Rock' music. The element of "Roll" is missing from 99.9% of modern popular music...and I'm not saying it's gotta be old music to be good, because Flat Duo Jets wrote original material in this modern age and it was damned good.

[sparkytrick]

@surfercrow Gotta remember Jack is a blues guitarist.

[KlanyMany]

@surfercrow

Totally understand what you're saying about the lack of 'roll' in modern rock; as I say, I want the roll in my rock. But, I would certainly think that the Stripes, (while certainly being far from rockabilly), def. have a good bit more roll than most modern acts. I'd suggest you listen to their songs Baby Brother, Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine, Astro, and Let's Shake Hands if you haven't. Especially Baby Brother though.

[surfercrow]

@KlanyMany - Cool. Will check those out. I wasn't so much ripping on Jack & Meg, just haven't heard anything that's caught my ear. They've kicked pop culture square in the balls, which needs to be done every few years. So props to them for doing so. & also for supporting artists like Dexter, Wanda & Loretta. He has very good taste in older music including all that old Memphis & Mississippi stuff. If i ever met him I'm sure we could have a long conversation about all those old blues singers.

[KlanyMany]

@surfercrow

If you don't like them, that's fine with me. Just thought you might be interested in hearing those songs. Their more popular songs, I do like, but most aren't my favorites. Seven Nation Army is probably one of my least favorites actually, haha.

And yes, he certainly does have great taste! That's part of how he got my attention at the start because I listened almost exclusively to older music, (primarily 60's), and unlike everyone else he was showing that influence.

[SavantSvant]

@surfercrow The way I see it, TWS are more delta blues based, where as FDJ is more contry, texas shuffel blues based and obv more rock n' roll too. Can't compare them more then that they're two persons in respectiv band.

[gotmilk606]

@surfercrow The white stripes is a lot more delta blues than modern rock. If you listen to their early stuff from their first 2 albums you will definitely hear the blues and folk in them. Songs like Death Letter(a cover of Son House) and You're Pretty Good Looking, and Do are songs you won't ever hear on the radio but are definitely worth checking out. I've listened to their discography more than once and you're definitely not judging them right if you only know them for their radio songs.

[ttoflea]

My friend, Dexter, since back in the first days of The Flat Duo Jets ca1984. Happy to inform you that Dex is going strong with the "Dexter Romweber Duo"  (Dex and Sara Romweber)!!

[Babaretro222]

i liked this band back when they were called the stray cats

[GomerPyle84]

That's not Brian Setzer. They've never been the Stray Cats. Completely different band.

[Babaretro222]

LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[galaxyrock]

Are you fucking retarded? Do you think the Stray Cats invented Rockabilly? The Flat Duo Jets didn't copy the Stray Cats and they weren't influenced by them. They were influenced by Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Elvis, Carl Perkins, and other Rockabilly from the 50's. They don't have a goddamn thing to do with that Chet-Atkins-Impersonator named Brian Setzer.

[wwgt]

Let there be rock ..

there is nothing new under the sun ..

both Dex & Jack ..

completely rock .

Genius inspires further Genius..

thank goodness.

[Doyle5446]

I think the Flat Duo Jets have opened for The White Stripes before, I read that somewhere. Jack White said he didn't have duos open for him (something about feelings getting hurt)but Dex said he wanted a gig any gig so they got to open for them.

[uncleruckus516]

nothing against the white stripes but dex opening for them is basically a musical talent slap in the balls.

[wwgt]

well , I can totally understand ..what your saying ..

but publicity is publicity,,

and if Dex . inspired Jack ,,

then let it be ,,,who gives a damn ..

its all great & awesome R & R ?

[EcoliCows]

Why aren't there more people like you?

[wwgt]

Aww shux,, thank ya very much !!

[ickythumper99]

@uncleruckus516 i think they're of equel talent. the white stripes just got more popular

[LesMike93]

@uncleruckus516 Jack White said the same in It Might Get Loud..

[KlanyMany]

@uncleruckus516

It's not about ball-slapping, it's about exposing kids to great music that otherwise they wouldn't hear. I'm 15 years old, and would I have ever heard of Dex's work without Jack? Unlikely.

And let's face it, it's not as though the Stripes were gonna open for Dex. It just doesn't work that way.

[nordg1]

@uncleruckus516 in a way u r right, but after i saw a documentary about guitars wherein jack admitted that the flats influenced them to form white stripes from his point of view it was more of a gesture of respect. if ud ask me i say its better if they collaborated with the flats or dex rather than opening for them. to bad, when the flat duo jets started the world isnt ready for them yet back then. need to get ol their recordings its so adictive.

[jonanjello]

Nice! Haven't seen this clip before! Great stuff!

[HumGuitar]

This guy is the best. So many interesting sounds come out of that Silvertone! White Stripes should pay Dex to be their opening act.

[shub10]

That show would be a dream come true for me!

[zeikoru]

same here!

[brilleaben]

White Stripes should just pay them in general.

[WhiteTrashWatson]

seriously since jack white basically copped dexter's look.

[TheDeadDeadsons]

the white stripes did open for dex one time. it was the day after they met i think.

[wwgt]

I was at a FdJ show in Detroit in '94

in addition to me ,, there was a small group of

rabid fans gathered centered stage.

who seemed to be exalting Dex & Crow on , to rock harder and further

and to this day, as a citizen of Texas

I cant help but think it was Jack White and friends,,crafting their own tunes ,,soon to be a phenom

inspired by DEX ..

[revon0521]

I believe it was the other way around. FDJ opened for Jack and Meg at the Masonic Auditorium in Detroit.

[manzruin]

I saw FDJ when White Stripes had just released their first record and no one knew who they were, and no one had any idea why they were the headliners except for their label. Great show all around, with Cash Money. Dex didn't remember this show recently when I asked him about it.