Flat Duo Jets

Long before the White Stripes, there were the Flat Duo Jets, Dexter Romweber's ferocious guitar-drums duo from North Carolina who blazed through the Eighties and Nineties playing some of the most face-melting roots-rock ever heard. Jack White has paid tribute to the influences of the Jets and the wild-eyed Romweber in a variety of places. In 2009's It Might Get Loud, a guitar summit pairing White with Jimmy Page and the Edge, White declared that seeing the Jets for the first time "opened up a whole new inspiration for me about the guitar." And he was downright effusive in the 2006 cult-classic Romweber documentary Two Headed Cow, calling Romweber "a huge influence on my music??? one of the best-kept secrets of the rock & roll underground." In 2009 White recorded a seven-inch with Romweber, and in 2011 he reissued the Jets' long-out-of-print 1991 album Go Go Harlem Baby on his Third Man Records imprint.

Romweber has pursued a solo career since the 1999 wind down of the Jets, garnering further critical acclaim and cementing his legacy a one of American music's great visionaries. On top of recording 10 albums Dex has toured with Cat Power, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Neko Case, Reverend Horton Head and many others.

In 2016. Dex & drummer Crash Laresh released a new Lp as the duo on Jett Plastic Records titled "The Great Jones". Dex & Crash are currently touring and reviving/delivering the old Flat Duo Jets catalog of molten rock 'n roll with a fervor to a whole new generation.