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Evan Dando performs in pharmacy after staff find lost wallet
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 8 March 2021
Evan Dando recently performed in a New York pharmacy. Don’t worry though, times aren’t that tough for the Lemonheads frontperson, he was just saying thank you staff for finding his lost wallet.
Last month, Dando announced on Twitter that he’d lost said wallet. “I dropped my wallet with my driver’s licence and two debit cards in it”, he wrote. “I was walking from the Mariner Hotel to the Palmer Lot. Please have a look if you are on them streets”.
You might think that tweeting about a lost wallet is a bit of an odd thing for an internationally known musician to do. You can’t argue with the results though. Within minutes a tweet came back: “I work at Walgreens in Falmouth and your wallet was just turned in to us. I’ll keep it in the office safe until you can get it”.
Reunited with his wallet days later, Dando pulled out his guitar and played 1992 Lemonheads track ‘Confetti’ in the shop’s aisles. Quite what shoppers made of this isn’t clear. Given that he’d failed to bring a guitar strap with him, they were possibly too distracted by seeing a man fighting to hold his guitar while playing standing up to find out who he was or why he was there. Still, it happened.
This is not Dando’s only lost property tweet of late. Over the weekend, he tweeted that one of his guitars had been stolen.
“Someone has stolen my most precious possession”, he tweeted. “I should have put this up here a month ago around when it happened. It’s a 1959 Gibson J-50 in perfect condition. Cost me over $5000. It was gonna make its money back soon as I planned to use her as my main live axe, but COVID plus SOME WANKER as stuffed all this up for me”.
“I NEED A GREAT ACOUSTIC in my line of work”, he went on. “There’s a cigar burn on her top curvy hip. Only cosmetic. HHHEEEELLLLPPPP MMMMMEEEEE”.
However, yesterday he tweeted blunty: “I found my guitar, false alarm”.
No word on how he found it, nor whether doing so will result in another impromptu thank you performance. Or maybe an apology performance, for the benefit of “SOME WANKER”, given it sounds like it wasn’t actually stolen.
