'The Drug Became the Only Thing I Thought About': Wolfgang Gartner on Anxiety, Rehab & This 'Incredibly Optimistic' Career Moment
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billboard.comWolfgang Gartner was eight years sober from drugs and alcohol. That is, until, the night before his first-ever Coachella performance in April of that year -- when he saw a full, open beer at a party."Without even thinking I just grabbed it and started going," he says. "It wasn’t even a choice I made."By the next night, he was doing drugs just prior to going onstage, self-medicating to deal with the performance anxiety that had been an issue for much of his career.
The Coachella show was a smash, serving as one of the launchpads that placed the producer born Joey Youngman at the forefront of a dynamic dance music scene -- one that was on the verge of blowing up in the U.S.
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