Posted on 01/10/2026 1:04:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember – and find out if the booze, loud music and/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them. This week: The Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando takes the ultimate test!
SNIP
What is your character called in the 1995 film Heavy? “Jeff.”
CORRECT. The boyfriend of Liv Tyler’s waitress character Callie.
“River Phoenix had died and [the filmmakers] said ‘you can have his part’. My vampiric glory said yes! It was wicked fun. I got there and didn’t know who Liv Tyler was – it said Liv Rundgren in her passport – but as I was kissing her, [Aerosmith’s] ‘Sweet Emotion’ was playing in my head and I realised of course!”
“Heavy was just what I needed. I stopped drinking and hung out with this really beautiful, intelligent, rock girl.”
Any other roles you’ve enjoyed?
“I turn up the end of [1994 movie] Reality Bites [as Actor Roy] and that’s the best one because it’s really funny.”
“The funniest thing was one time I sat next to Tim Robbins who was saying ‘I really like your music’ – but he’d mistaken me for Kurt Cobain! Afterwards, I saw him on the Oscars red carpet and said ‘How’s it going Tim? Remember me from the airplane?’. And he was like nah, because he really thought I was someone else. Maybe I shouldn’t have poked him in the back of his jacket.”
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Liv had to switch fathers midstream as a teenager.
Not easy to handle that.
Seems as if she turned out okay though.
Because you look like a corpse?
I don’t think that’s how it happened. One man raised he for 15 years, then he dumped him for “someone better.”
Love Evan Dando!! Always fun in concert!! Great old Lemonheads songs and lots of interesting covers. Pretty cool dude. Thanks for posting this.
... If it was on her passport it must have been on her birth certificate too, right? Who knew, and when, and why?
Oh never mind, it's Rock'n'roll and Hollywood, it doesn't have to make sense...
Whoops Todd Rundgren
Mistaken for Kurt Cobain? He needed that like a hole in the head. Oh wait..
Al Gore went up to Courtney Love and said he was a big fan of hers, and Courtney then asked Al to name one of her songs, and Al couldn’t.
Wow, look! Three unknowns in one sentence.
At a certain point, it might have even been an Aerosmith concert, Liv realized that she was the absolute spitting image of Steven Tyler.
Mom did not deny it. So then, she knew.
Yes, AFAIK, no hard feelings.
Liv seems like a forgiving type of person.
Liv has said she has good relations with Todd Rundgren as well as Steven Tyler.
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