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Drummer Stan Demeski has held down the crazy rhythms of the Feelies for four decades, with a stint in the alt-rock supergroup Luna in between. He replaced the late Anton Fier in the Feelies and played in the related bands the Trypes, Yung Wu and the Willies before appearing on his first Feelies album, the classic The Good Earth. Demeski takes us inside the idiosyncrasies and dynamics of this propulsive, percussive group as they appear in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, jump to a major label, take a 16-year break and resume making music together. He also recounts his Luna experience, how that ended and what it was like for him, a huge Velvet Underground fan, to tour with Lou Reed.