because i forget to forget
November 22, 2006. Troubadour. The Lemonheads.the first thing you notice as you walk in is the deep timber in evan dando's voice. then his sweaty face and the slightly disheveled hair sticking to it. the band has a look about them. like looking at 3 people who use to be famous: familiar, weather-beaten but happy. they played all of my
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"It's a shame...(Or, How Evan Dando crushed my inner 15-year-old.)"
----lille
Evan Dando just hung up on me.
Apparently, I'm not the first journalist he's done it to. I Googled "Evan Dando is a rude interview" and came up with a few hits. Like others before me, I was left with a beeping phone cradled on my neck five minutes into our conversation, wondering what just happened. I can't believe I never got to ask him about Juliana Hatfield, his teen heartthrob status in the early '90s or, sadly, his excessive drug use that broke up the Lemonheads.
I should've known, though. He was grumpy and gruff when he got on the phone - and he sounded nothing like the sweetheart who sang "I'm too much with myself, I wanna be someone else," 10 years ago. According to him, the Lemonheads is now touring "secondary markets" and not stopping in big cities like Chicago and New York. It's the second wave of promotion for the first Lemonheads release in 10 years.
While I'm replying to his question, "how are you?," he interrupts and says, "I don't really care I was being ingenuine (sic) because I don't really know you. So what, what do you want to know? Do you have questions?"
I did, actually - after I told him I was super exited to talk to him as a Lemonheads fan, I asked how many older songs were in his current set list: "We play a lot of the old stuff and six to seven of the new album." How does it feel to be playing the old songs now? Sounding irritated, he said, "It's always the same and it's always different. It's what I do." He paused. "That's all."
Maybe I shouldn't have asked if he ever got nostalgic for his fame in the '90s: "No, no, no. That was then, this is now. Now is more fun to me... It's really hard to explain. It's just something I do and I like to do it. I don't like to analyze it."
Or maybe it was when I asked why he even regrouped the band after such a long hiatus: "We just wanted to make some noise without killing people... (to) release tension and destructive tendencies."
But it wasn't until I mention that his new album is noisier than his earlier work that he got positively nasty: "Our first album was a lot noisier than this one. But you've probably never heard that-it was released in '86." Um, no, I was eight, I say. (But did he mean the EP "Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners" or the full-length, indie release "Hate Your Friends"?)
Unfortunately I would never know, because he then said, "Well if you don't know that you can just read up on me on the Internet and you can finish the article that way. Bye."
(Click.)
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p.s. i love your show reviews! and pics! nice nice.
lille
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