Guns N' Roses, the creation, the band, the legend

How many times have you read a book and instinctively thought of the perfect soundtrack to accompany the words on the page. Well it’s about time the words and music morphed together to bring you the ultimate experience. The result: Reckless Road: Guns N’ Roses and the making of Appetite for Destruction. (available at recklessroad.com)

If you’ve listened to music in the past 20 years, chances are, Guns N’ Roses has been part of the soundtrack to your life. Now you get to see personal GNR photos and hear the first live performances of the songs that made up Appetite for Destruction. If that weren’t enough, to accompany this rare and unprecedented photo and memorabilia archive, Reckless Road narrates Guns N' Roses' rise to stardom, as told by the original band members and the people who were closest to them. Be careful, your senses might explode!

But I know what you’re thinking. You think this is just another book of stock photos, album covers and lyrics rolled out onto paper and bound together. But how many Guns N’ Roses books have you heard of that Slash calls “…the best rock n’ roll book I have ever seen.” Reckless Road is full of never-before-seen photos of the band in the most intimate settings. Even Duff McKagan says: “I haven’t seen these shots in 20 years…”

With a few snapshots of his high school friend, Marc Canter unknowingly began to document the greatest rock band of an era. Reckless Road is the only authorized Guns N’ Roses book, documenting the beginning of an era and the creation of the seminal groundbreaking album, Appetite for Destruction. Timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of this multi-platinum album, Reckless Road offers access to hundreds of previously unreleased images and stories about the early days of Guns N' Roses.

When teenager and amateur photographer Marc Canter set out to document his best friend Saul Hudson's rise as a rock guitarist in 1983, he never imagined that he was actually documenting the genesis of the next great rock and roll band of the era. His friend went on to become the legendary guitarist Slash and Mr. Canter found himself front and center, witnessing the creation of Guns N' Roses.

Mr. Canter photographed every gig the band played on the Sunset Strip, from their first show together on June 6, 1985, to their debut international tour as a newly signed act for Geffen Records. Luckily for the fans, Mr. Canter also had the foresight to capture the audio and video of every performance, leaving a well-documented legacy few bands can boast. Original gig memorabilia including show flyers, ticket stubs, set lists, press clippings, and hand-written song lyrics round out this unique collection. Not since The Dirt, documenting Motley Crue, has there been such a book full of sex, drugs, debauchery, chaos, camaraderie, passion, and the undying spirit of rock n’ roll.

It took Guns N’ Roses 50 gigs to change Rock n’ Roll forever… it took 50 gigs to create a legend…

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