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.
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