Video: The Feelers - Childrens Are Kids Too (2007 European Tour)

Agit Reader: The Feelers - It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Kevin Elliott at the Agit Reader went in-depth with members of The Feelers, here is some of that interview:

Despite a stunted history and a general ambivalence towards their rank in the annals of Columbus music, for a brief rift in time they were capable of transcending the stock punk model and shredding off one for the ages. 

You were all in other punk bands before, so what was the intent of the Feelers? 

Dan Riffe: Basically we just wanted to play at (Columbus dive, in the most extreme definition of the word) Bernie’s and drink a lot of whisky—and high-five babes. 

So after being in Eric Wrong and the Do-Rights and the Nurses what did you want to do differently? 

Aleksey Shaulov: Actually the band started because I hated being in the Nurses, and I had to vent. I said, “Hey, let’s start a band,” to which they replied, “Hey, we don’t play anything.” I said, “You’ll just scream a lot.” That’s how it started. The Feelers came before the Do-Rights. 

How were you so quickly indoctrinated in the underground network of punk bands that were on Contaminated Records and Dead Beat? 

Joe Riffe: It wouldn’t have happened if those guys hadn’t taken our first 7-inch up to Chicago. Shawn (the old bassist) was in the Reatards and he was really into it and that’s how it got passed around. Then Darius from Criminal IQ was also into it, so having both of those people into it kind of got us into that crowd. That’s how we met pretty much everyone we know now. We didn’t really know anyone until Aleck and John went to Chicago and tried to set that up.

New Additions: Nothing Always 7" single by The Feelers

Even though they were active around the time I was playing in a band in Columbus, I was not at all familiar with The Feelers. I'm not sure how I missed them, but I'm making up for that now. Though only around a few years, they managed an album and a bunch of singles, one of which I snagged off of Discogs not long ago. It's aggressive, blast of energy punk that has lineage to the best of Columbus punk, the New Bomb Turks.

Know Yer Band: The Feelers

Band: The Feelers

Members
Vocals - Prof. Dan "Feelings/White Pepper" Riffe
Guitar - Aleks Red Menance
Guitar/Vocals - Jon "JG/J. Ghad" Gray
Bass - Sean "Sensation" Redd/Donovan "Smashy" Roth
Drums - Joe "Q.T. Thunderguns/Canivorous Supremacy" Riffe

Releases
2004 - Fuhrers New MiniSkirt 7" single (Death By Noise)
2004 - Split w/Blank Its 7" single (Contaminated Records)
2005 - Parts And Pieces 7" single (P. Trash Records)
2005 - Learn To Hate The Feelers album (Dead Beat Records)
2006 - Just Can't Get Enough 7" single (Contaminated Records)
2007 - Nothing Always 7" single (Bachelor Records)
2007 - 2007 European Tour 7" EP (P. Trash Records)