Project 86 - Open Hand

But at Geffen Records everyone was still horrified. The then employee of the department for working with artists recalls that the group constantly got into alterations: “They fought in clubs, they were always thrown out of Rainbow and Cathouse. They had sex with pornstars. They openly used hard drugs. They had absolutely no brakes. In their house, you could always find a bunch of half-naked girls in various stages of intoxication. Once they showed up late in Geffen’s office and dragged a naked girl wrapped in a shower curtain - she was still wet. In short, the company employees were convinced that it was impossible to control them. Many believed that Axl, the most important member of the group, would simply give up. I remember a long discussion at Geffen Records, when someone - maybeDavid Geffen himself or his dirty tricks specialist Eric Eisner said: “We need to record everything they do - rehearsals, sound checks, concerts - now, because this group will be very popular and will live very short. One of them will clearly grab an overdose before the hype ends. ”