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 quite a bit much less of his heat, melodic rock songs on the market on the planet than there ought to be, however he has been clear for a number of years now and just lately accomplished a UK tour. On a cease off in Stoke a number 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 had 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 medication. I noticed the tapes – I performed at this fucking graveyard, the graveyard the place all the celebs are buried, a extremely unhealthy concept. I used to be so unhealthy, 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 turn into. My enamel had been all gone, and I used to be like, ‘Dude…’ and that’s the one and fortunately 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 once you see an image of your self once you’re on heroin, it’s actually unhappy, each time. And everybody can inform, even on the cellphone for a second, in the event you relapse, it’s like there’s this glazed sugar in your voice, or one thing satanic.”
Not having his personal enamel, 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 learn to floss,” he mirrored. “Whenever you smoke, you bought to floss, cos these enamel are going. I’ve acquired caps. They’re not the identical, it’s annoying. Your enamel are a lot a part of your character, it’s actually fucking bizarre to get used to. I want I had my enamel.”
He’s nonetheless right here although, and regardless of all of it, he has quite a bit to really feel proud about. Contemplating what he thought his best achievement is, he surprisingly picked out a Mrs. Robinson-related second – he has a sophisticated relationship with the track that The Lemonheads turned well-known for overlaying. “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, an awesome 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 an enormous achievement for me.”
Let’s take pleasure in their tackle the Simon & Garfunkel traditional yet one more time under:
