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On January 20th, 2026, Evan Dando<\/a> brought the latest incarnation of his rascally alt-pop band the Lemonheads to a taping of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. It was the group\u2019s first performance on an American late-night talk show in 30 years, and, as no insult to Dando and his cohorts, that passage of time was evident.<\/p>\n Dando, once the smirking, long-legged pretty boy of 1990s rock, is 58 now and a bit more lumberjacky in his presentation, but overall, he looked and sounded good performing an old Lemonheads classic, \u2018My Drug Buddy\u2019. It\u2019s impressive that he\u2019s still around at all, considering how much his various drug buddies<\/a> sent him spiralling into decades of heroin addiction. The fact that Dando has now been clean for several years and singing those beloved songs in good form was fairly heartwarming.<\/p>\n It was everything else going on around the Lemonheads that made the whole thing a bit jarring. These noble slacker heroes of the Bill Clinton era didn\u2019t look quite right boxed into a shiny new clip on TikTok, and they certainly didn\u2019t need the consistently annoying Jimmy Fallon inserting himself into their set, as the snickering host bounded over to sing harmonies on Dando\u2019s microphone with the same energy as a little girl at Disneyworld hugging Princess Elsa.<\/p>\n After watching this, I did what I imagine a lot of middle-aged people do after seeing one of their old favourite bands reunite<\/a> in the present day. I went time-travelling back to the Lemonheads\u2019 heyday to remember what they were like without the undercurrent of time contextualising everything about them. Ironically, you have to be fully nostalgic sometimes to actually remove nostalgia from the equation, if that makes any sense.<\/p>\n And so, via YouTube, I returned to my childhood living room and the boxy TV set on which I used to stay up and watch The Late Show with David Letterman; the original 12:30am programme Letterman hosted on NBC from 1982 to 1993. Specifically, I\u2019m watching an episode from 1992, when Dando and the original Lemonheads were the musical guests. Evan is magically 25 now, and he is 1992 incarnate: long hair, oversized coat, indie band T-shirt, and an unprofessionally blas\u00e9 but charmingly authentic \u201caww shucks\u201d attitude. He\u2019s here to promote the Lemonheads\u2019 new album, It\u2019s a Shame About Ray, which Letterman holds up in one of those long rectangular CD boxes that only existed in this brief era.<\/p>\n