Is in the name of music. We were in New York mixing Axel felt like something was missing from the song and then Stephen Adler’s girlfriend Adriana at the time was was in the studio but Stephen had made it there yet Years later Adriana spoke about the extraordinary events that followed he was like Adrian I know and it’s axle voice.
You know, there’s something I’d like you to do, It’s very serious. He wanted to have life. Sex sounds on a song. He was mixing, we were young and wild and free and there was the notion that it was for an artistic purpose. Of course, I would do that. You know, we might the two of them up and they went at it and we recorded it.
I had no idea that I was going to be rock and roll history that it was going to be a legendary app. I didn’t realize that she was a serious girlfriend as Stevens. So, I mean only dawned on me later, you know, oh, that wasn’t good. And it might be part of the reason that that Steven and Axel are still someone a strange As the months of recording, go on axles behavior.
Grows even more extreme and he starts to become physically destructive. He smashed up dressing those. He’s always bleeding and Harding his toes by kicking through walls. And so on of to destroy things have become part of his resident, it’s no coincidence. So that first album was called after time for destruction.
Welcome to the jungle. Anything goes? You’re crazy. Even axle is aware. That is volatile personality, could jeopardize the future of the band I’m psychotic. And that’s a real problem to try to. Like, you know, it’s like I have to like, balance up, you know, when can I destroy everything around me to, when I have to be nice to everybody.
It was very clear to me that there was something going on Axel’s turbulent mind is threatening to destroy, not just the band but also himself At the age of around 24. Axel OD on pills. He revealed this dark moment to Kurt Loader. The reason I ever do this because of stress, I couldn’t take it.
Yeah, and I just grabbed this bottle pills and in an argument and just goes down and ended up in the hospital, eventually, actual agrees to see a psychiatrist to try and get a diagnosis for his mood swings. He’s diagnosed with manic depressive disorder. Now known as bipolar disorder, bipolar is a very debilitating condition with extreme highs and extreme lows that are very difficult for the person who is experiencing the symptoms.
His mood swings, his appetite, for destruction, all make sense to a bipolar diagnosis. It also makes sense to his pain. His desire for control when things even in his own mind. Seem out of control. He took lithium for a while, which was a common, you know, medication for manic depressives