Evan Dando has many wild tales to inform. The US singer-songwriter and Lemonheads frontman has spent a lot of his life and profession battling drug dependancy, one thing meaning there are rather a lot much less of his heat, melodic rock songs on the market on the earth than there must be, however he has been clear for a couple of years now and just lately accomplished a UK tour. On a cease off in Stoke a couple of weeks in the past, Dando spoke to Substack music publication The New Cue and revealed the second that he realised it was time to kick his drug behavior for good.
“We have been going to do a tour with Squeeze earlier than Covid,” Dando defined. “It didn’t occur, it was both Covid or it was my hellish efficiency I did the place I realised I needed to get off medicine. I noticed the tapes – I performed at this fucking graveyard, the graveyard the place all the celebrities are buried, a extremely dangerous concept. I used to be so dangerous, as a result of not solely was I on coke and dope however I used to be doing all these edibles. That’s the utterly disgusting image, what I’d develop into. My tooth have been all gone, and I used to be like, ‘Dude…’ and that’s the one and by chance I’m out since then. I used to be not there in any respect. I’d play half a track and begin laughing. It’s actually unhappy whenever you see an image of your self whenever you’re on heroin, it’s actually unhappy, each time. And everybody can inform, even on the telephone for a second, for those who relapse, it’s like there’s this glazed sugar in your voice, or one thing satanic.”
Not having his personal tooth, he defined, was one of many largest downsides to his misplaced years. He mentioned he wished he might inform his 18-year-old self to take higher care of his pearly whites. “I want he knew sufficient to discover ways to floss,” he mirrored. “Whenever you smoke, you bought to floss, cos these tooth are going. I’ve acquired caps. They’re not the identical, it’s annoying. Your tooth are a lot a part of your character, it’s actually fucking bizarre to get used to. I want I had my tooth.”
He’s nonetheless right here although, and regardless of all of it, he has rather a lot to really feel proud about. Contemplating what he thought his biggest achievement is, he surprisingly picked out a Mrs. Robinson-related second – he has an advanced relationship with the track that The Lemonheads grew to become well-known for masking. “It’s humorous as a result of it’s Mrs. Robinson-related, which I don’t like, however it was in The Wolf Of Wall Avenue, a fantastic Scorsese film. I watched it once more final evening, they usually used it as a featured track on the finish, and that’s what he does, music and movie. That was a giant achievement for me.”
Let’s take pleasure in their tackle the Simon & Garfunkel traditional yet another time under:
