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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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!
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
nothing against the white stripes but dex opening for them is basically a musical talent slap in the balls.
uncleruckus516 2 years ago 48
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.
surfercrow 2 years ago 23