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Andi Möller is known to the much losing but not uncluined wisdom: “I had a good feeling from the feeling”. So you have to understand the music Evan Dandos, head of the lemonheads. Feeling and feeling are the same, so that adds up, and that makes it more important than perfection. If you want to see the Lemonheads live, you have to endure that not a single song sounds even as a matter of a plate. But the feeling is right. People no longer sing along what Dando, 58, harmful to the vote after years of drug use. The audience is his background choir. The audience also sings the second guitar, the second guitarist that Dando should definitely buy on stage so that someone plays the parts that no longer succeed.
As on Thursday evening (September 11th) in the Berlin Frannz Club. Around 400 people, more rapped shop, sold out. The mood is good. Dando is a legend, the “Posterboy of the Grunge”, in 1992 and 1993 the Hottest type alongside Kurt and Eddie. “Come on Feel the Deep End” is now the name of the tour. A humorous statement, because Dando lists the “Come on Feel” album (apart from the second “Style” version and of all things the grandiose surfing fantasy “You can take it with you”), but “The Deep End”, the new Lemonheads single, just as little as a single song of the new album “Love Chant”. Something like this-the album motto of the concert tour and then completely ignore the album-had actually only dared to do so.
“Come on Feel” from 1993 has some classics, “The Great Big No”, “It’s About Time”, “Dawn Can’t Decide”, flanked by a bassist plus drummer, as well as there are a few more Lemonheads songs by “It’s Shame About Ray”, “Rudderless”, “My Drug Bit Part”.
Evan Dando Live: Pop icon between chaos and charm
Some say that Evan Dando is increasingly similar to the now deceased Ozzy Osbourne. The critigation, agile announcements that nobody understands and, in the best case, are interpreted as a stream of consciousness. But the class of his pop songs is that they remain recognizable, even if everything is actually missing live around it, dynamics, voice, correct tones.
At the end of his unfortunately only one -hour appearance, Dando intones a few pieces alone on the acoustic guitar. “If I Can’t Have You” of the Bee Gees, “How Will I Know” by Whitney Houston. They sound like Lemonheads songs. What honors all sides. Dando also intones “Landslide” by Stevie Nicks. Nobody has the despair of not being able to stop their life, no matter how blessed you feel, or “lives at the moment”, better written down than Nicks: “Time Makes You Bolder / Even Children get Older / and i ‘M Gettin’ Older Too”.
Evan Dando thought 30 years ago, time doesn’t matter. He will always stay the one he is. It is still somehow, you can feel it, but sighs his mind and body.