Avicii: True Stories Page #3

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acoustic elements throughout.

Yeah, I like it a lot. It's great.

A mixture of the acoustic element,

then going into, like, kind of blending

- into the electronic vibe.

- Nice, it's cool.

[Mike] It's obvious to nobody that

Tim and I would mesh together like that.

I don't think anybody would have said,

like:
"Oh, you're gonna get,

you know, like,

this guitarist from a rock band

and then this, like,

electronic music producer/D.J. together

and then, like, this cool stuff

is gonna happen."

We're very different musically

but we have a similar philosophy in,

like, sort of putting songs together

and taking elements from different places

and seeing how they can fit together.

He probably got here at about four o'clock

in the afternoon,

and by about like seven or eight o'clock

at night, we had "Wake Me Up". [chuckles]

That was the first thing that we did,

was we wrote "Wake Me Up".

[beats playing]

[Avicii] I think every artist of any kind,

like, the ultimate goal,

is to find your own mark,

something that makes you stand out

from all the rest.

Not afraid to close my eyes

[piano playing]

Or... Yeah, those ones, yeah.

[Aloe vocalising]

Yeah.

Not afraid to close my eyes

I wanna be there

and be a part of writing the vocal.

I wanna make a song from the ground up,

basically.

It's more like you don't expect it.

- That's the one you want?

- Eyes...

[Mike] He's so specific about what

he likes and what he doesn't like.

- All this time I was finding myself...

- When you find somebody like Tim,

who absolutely knows what he wants,

things get done.

Don't jump straight to, like...

All this time, I was finding...

[Aloe] All this time, I was...

All this time

I was finding myself and I...

Yeah, something like that.

I was lost

There you go. I really like it.

Well, we can perfect this,

but I love that.

At like 4:
00 a.m.,

I got an e-mail from him saying:

"It's... It's all together, check it out."

I remember opening it up, listening, and

being like:
"F*** me, this is awesome."

["Wake Me Up" playing]

This is so good.

- This is hot, man.

- Yeah.

[Avicii]

We did so well with the musical side

and everything went so fast

from that point on.

[Guetta] I love him as a person.

He's really humble, super nice person.

I'm also, like, super shy in reality.

So I have this kind of

balanced personality.

He also has this, I think, you know.

Like, getting a little nervous and things

like this, you know, I'm also like this.

In the beginning, I was too afraid

to drink 'cause I didn't wanna screw up.

But then I realised how stiff I was

when I wasn't drinking,

so then I-I found...

the... the magical cure

of just having, like,

a couple of drinks before going on.

It's very easy to go that road,

especially if, like him or me,

you're a little bit of an anxious person.

But I think, to a part,

that... that's what kind of

helped me be able to do all those shows

without feeling completely exhausted.

For an artist, it's very easy,

uh, to be tempted to use something to get

away from the pressure a little bit.

I saw how other D.J.s drank

and I saw people like D.J.s who's been

in this industry for... for ten years,

and they're still drinking, like,

you know, every show that they're doing.

I started getting stomach pains

on my way into Australia,

and I had about three or four more hours

to go until we landed.

[radio host] Touring around Australia

with Future Music Festival,

he had to pull out of Brisbane

and Perth last weekend,

uh, 'cause he was taken to hospital.

[Robb] There's no sense in sending you

if we're not doing the show.

Yeah, we'll make a final call, and then

tomorrow morning, if we're not going,

we will just reroute your flight

back to Sydney.

Um, he's... Yeah, I mean, he's all right,

but he's at the hospital right now.

Yeah, tonight's not gonna happen,

and we'll see about tomorrow.

[loud beep]

Um, all right, I spoke with some of

the nurses in charge of the area.

They don't think you're well enough to do

the shows.

- Yeah.

- But if you wanted to do them,

they would discharge you

and give you pain medication.

Pancreatitis, notoriously,

is very painful.

When the pancreas becomes inflamed

like this,

some of these enzymes can leak out

of where they're supposed to be

and start digesting the body,

essentially, from the inside. Uh...

If... If I'm able to do the show

without worsening the pancreatitis...

The show won't worsen it.

It's whether you can physically do it,

- whether the pain will limit you.

- Yeah.

[Avicii] It's the worst stomach cramp

you can imagine, pretty much.

It feels like someone's stabbing you

in... in the stomach

and the back simultaneously,

at the same time as it's escalating.

For me, definitely,

the... the most pain I've been in.

You can't do anything about it. You just

need to not drink water and not eat.

And to be able to survive the pain,

they give you pain medicine.

- [door opens]

- What's up?

This is ketamine, just to...

Want me to change any syringes?

You know, I've took on a mentor role

with him that doesn't stop anywhere,

whether it's his personal life

or if it's his... his career.

I felt that I had to guide him,

so that he wouldn't even have to think

about anything but the music.

[Robb] Now, the reason Ash rates Australia

higher than Ultra...

Were missing both Ultras, though?

[Robb stutters]

Then there's no way he would rate...

The second Ultra is main stage.

The reason they're saying to you now...

The first Ultra doesn't really matter

the same way.

He wouldn't have

to think about anything else.

That's a freedom I think a lot of people

would appreciate, myself included.

If they also said,

based on how I've been feeling today,

and the pain levels I've been at t-today,

they don't think I'm gonna be fit for...

- The shows that...

- The shows this weekend, anyways.

That's what they were saying.

So they were... they were saying,

if you're gonna miss these shows anyways,

we might as well take your gall bladder

out now and have you ready for...

I guess that's what I'm for,

to guide him into

making the right decisions

and... doing the right things.

A conventional teaching

and professional wisdom, worldwide,

is to take the gall bladder out

before you go home, on admission,

the reason being that you don't

get an attack in the meantime.

Yeah.

But I understand your situation,

that you're in the middle of a world tour,

and there are things you need to do.

We, um, think at some stage

you need your gall bladder out.

Whether that be, you know, while you're

here or on tour or when you're home

is up to you, is what we're saying.

I would be there for him to tell him,

this is the way you have to do it

and then you'll be successful.

How long have the crew been here for?

Two days?

No, the crew's been here since Monday.

It's Thursday now.

- They flew in Monday morning.

- Oh.

[Robb coughs]

- The show is tomorrow?

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