DJ Ron Slomowicz: How did the house vibe hit you?
Charles Feelgood: Well I've been buying house music since house records came out, so I've been buying them forever. I'd sort of buy house records in high school and I've been buying them ever since. I have an apartment in California and a house in Baltimore and they're both filled with records.
RS: What's the first house record you ever bought?
Feelgood: I try to think of that all the time but to tell you the truth I can never remember. It might have been Inner City "Big Fun." It's really hard to say because I thought that I was buying house music when I used to buy records like Yaz, which was on Sire Records, which had twelve inch dance mixes.
RS: And you wouldn't call that house?
Feelgood: Yes, I did. The twelve inch dance records, that's what I would hear those in the gay house clubs in Baltimore.
RS: Oh, you mean Twelve Inch Dance Records, the record store?
Feelgood: Actually, I did used to shop at Twelve Inch Dance Records but I was saying that I would buy twelve inch dance mixes or disco mixes of certain groups, because that's what you would hear in a lot of the clubs, back in the early 80s.
RS: Alright, very cool. So how did you meet up with Scott Henry?
Feelgood: Scott and I had started doing parties in the early 90s and actually there were three of us throwing parties back then. Scott and I decided we wanted to perform and do our own more warehouse-oriented events and a lot of people were saying well, you guys are doing raves. We didn't know what they were back then, we were just doing parties in warehouses and playing dance music.
RS: Is this where Fever came from?
Feelgood: Yes, this is exactly where Fever came from. We had a really alternative crowd and back then things were so segregated. You either went to a gay club or straiight club, you had the black crowd and the white crowd while we had people from all walks of life there and nobody cared who was there.
RS: How did you realize that DC was ready for electronic and house music that you were playing?
Feelgood: This was music that we really loved and we wanted to share with everyone else. A lot of people did know what they were coming to hear and the people stuck around and they've been coming around for years. I guess there was some attrition in that but the people liked it and stuck around. We were just playing the music that we liked and we knew that other people would like it and the more we were hearing it, the more we wanted to play it.
