"Evan Dando's autobiography opens in early 2021. The singer is living in a mouldering trailer on Martha's Vineyard. He has a $200-a-day drug habit and is subsisting off a diet of cigarettes and cheeseburgers that he can't chew because the heroin, cocaine and amphetamine he's injecting have caused his teeth to fall out. It's all a very long way from Dando's brief burst of fame as frontman and solitary longstanding member of the Lemonheads:"
"For the last 35 years, drugs and unpredictability rather than music is what Dando has become known for. The book's blurb mentions heroin chic, but in truth, Dando's dissipation is almost impossible to put any kind of romantic gloss on. To his credit, he doesn't bother, instead recounting one public humiliation after another with a what-can-you-do? shrug. A cocktail of heroin and cocaine puts paid to a show designed to impress investors who've just bought a share of Dando's song publishing for $300,000,"
Evan Dando lived in a mouldering trailer on Martha's Vineyard in early 2021 with a $200-a-day drug habit and a diet of cigarettes and cheeseburgers. Heroin, cocaine and amphetamine use caused his teeth to fall out. Dando achieved brief mainstream success in the early 1990s with two major albums and a hit cover of Mrs Robinson. He sabotaged his career through hard drugs and unpredictable behaviour. For decades drugs and unpredictability became his defining traits. He recounts repeated public humiliations and collapsing gigs, including falls, arrests, missed festival slots, and investor-facing shows ruined by drug use. He associated with Oasis and wrote a song with Noel Gallagher.
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