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June 30, 2009

The Feelies Return To Chicago: 'a moment worth waiting almost 20 years for'...

What’s more, a new generation of fans seems especially eager to lose itself in that Feelies undertow. Through much of the night, the crowd in Millennium Park stayed politely glued to its seats. But the intensity slowly built over the course of a 90-minute set, and as it reached a peak with the one-two punch of “Raised Eyebrows” and “Crazy Rhythms,” a lone dancer hurtled toward the stage and started frantically pogoing.

Security moved in to shoo him off, but before they could, swarms of twenty-somethings who were likely seeing the band for the first time suddenly bounded down the aisles, and the mass of perhaps a thousand twitchy, hyperactive and joyful dancers continued to lose themselves in the swirl of “Fa Ce La” and two encores that included covers of the Velvet Underground, R.E.M. and the Rolling Stones.