Flat Duo Jets Releasing Special Box Set For RSD
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Flat Duo Jets have announced that they will be celebrating this year's Record Store Day with a special reissue of their 1990 self-titled debut album, expanded into a new three-disc vinyl box set. The new package will be entitled "Wild Wild Love" and will include a 40-page booklet with vintage show flyers and photographs, plus liner-note essays by Bingham, Grier and critic David Menconi. We were sent the following details: Singer/guitarist Dexter Romweber and drummer Chris �Crow� Smith were still teenagers when they formed Flat Duo Jets in Chapel Hill in 1984. Inspired in equal measure by the Cramps� haunted rockabilly and vintage drive-in horror movies, they cooked up a metallic version of rockabilly that sounded as if it had been launched into the deepest quadrants of the astral plane. �I had this place behind my mother�s house, The Mausoleum, and that�s where we formed the Jets,� says Romweber. �It was this campy �40s horror kind of place. Gothic, but not English neo-gothic � more like the �Addams Family� � and that�s what we tried to make Flat Duo Jets.� The combination of Romweber�s wild-eyed rockabilly howl, madman surf guitar and Crow�s pulverizing runaway-train drums made for a stage show that blew minds all over the college-radio circuit. The Jets spent just enough time in R.E.M.�s hometown to appear in and steal the 1987 documentary Athens, GA: Inside/Out before they expanded to a trio lineup and connected with producer Mark Bingham to record Flat Duo Jets, an album that still sounds just as powerful today. �No overdubs, no nothin�, just straight to tape like it was 1957,� Bingham says of the recording sessions. �So we had to do it right the first time. It was very seat-of-the-pants, which seemed fine with what the Jets were doing.�
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