[Marc Canter]Reckless Road Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction(pdf){Zzzzz}

When teenager and amateur photographer Marc Canter set out to document his best friend Saul Hudson's rise as a rock guitarist in 1982, he never imagined he was documenting the genesis of of the next great rock 'n' roll band. His friend became the legendary guitarist Slash, and Canter found himself witnessing the creation of Guns N' Roses front and center. The candid shots contained in Reckless Road, taken as the band toured in 1985-1987 and made the legendary album Appetite for Destruction, capture their raw, blood-sweat-and-tears performances as well as their intimate moments. Containing original gig memorabilia including show flyers, ticket stubs, set lists, press clippings, and handwritten lyrics as well as in-depth interviews with band members and the people closest to them, Reckless Road offers an explicit, first-person perspective readers won't find anywhere else.

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''When Guns N' Roses formed, Marc became like the sixth guy in the band. He was always around and had unlimited access to the band, especially in the early days... He believed in us from the beginning and had a much broader view of what the band was about than we had from the early stages. He documented the whole thing, tirelessly.'' --Duff McKagan, on Marc Canter, Author of Reckless Road
About the Author
Marc Canter is an amateur photographer and the owner and general manager of the legendary rock 'n' roll hangout, Canter's Deli, in Los Angeles, California. He has been friends with Slash for over 30 years, and had unlimited access to the formative years of one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Guns N' Roses. An avid collector, Canter is proud and excited to share his memories with the public for the first time. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Publisher: Shoot Hip Print and Media; Ill edition (1 November 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979341876
ISBN-13: 978-0979341878

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

The best GNR book not written by a band member 11 January 2008
By K. A. Daffarn -
This book is an essential must-read for anyone who is a fan of Guns N' Roses.

At first I was highly sceptical, there have been some truly terrible books written about this band in the past, but this one proved to be the exception to the rule.

The book is 348 pages long, excellent quality and every page has something of interest to GNR fans, either pictures or stories about the bands formation, or both. Much of it you will not find anywhere else, either online, on TV or in other books (in some cases including Slash's autobiography). Like most GNR books it claims to have stories and interview sections with friends of the band, but unlike most GNR books the people interviewed here really did know the band, and in many cases still do. Many of them played with one or more band members as they were starting out, others were friends throughout the bands formative years. There are none of the typical dodgy interviews with someone who lived down the street from Axl for a month, or went to Slash's high school just 1 year after he left, it's all the real deal.
It also includes a lot of information from the band members themselves, some of it contributed specially for the book.

And the pictures are all up to the same high standard as the text. No fuzzy re-prints of magazine shots, nothing stolen from websites or videos, it's all excellent quality and predominantly from the personal collections of the same friends and band mates who contributed the text.

As if that's not enough the book also includes a code that gives you access to audio and video recordings and more photos via a website. Again it's all great quality and stuff you're extremely unlikely to have seen before.

In short this is the sort of book that most band biographers wish they could have written and a must have for all GNR fans. It's just a shame so many other people got there first and did such a bad job of it.

Very cool book 27 December 2007
By C. Smith -
Any GN'R fan should own this book. Tons of pictures tell the story of the rise of a great band who made, in my humble opinion, the best rock record of all time. Too bad they couldn't hold it together, but if you read Slash's book you can understand why. Reckless Road is a nice companion to that book.

If there's one thing that could have been improved with this project, it would be spelling. Countless times it says "here" when it should be "hear," or "then" instead of "than." Sort of annoying, but the pictures are really what it's all about. And most of these pictures are truly worth a thousand words, so they more than make up for the typos.

Great book and I would highly recommend it.

Excellent book, but don't forget... IT IS ENHANCED! 4 March 2008
By James Krieger -
I picked up this book a few weeks back and loved it. I did time in Hollywood around that time and seeing familiar faces telling the story was quite fun. Canter did an AMAZING job documenting his friend Saul's band...

BUT do not forget, this book is ENHANCED! I did it today and it was fabulous... Buy the book, get your password, go to the website and viola! You can read every page and as you do see video interviews with Slash, Duff, Adler and all of the inner circle... PLUS as you read about all of the first shows you get to HEAR the actual performances! Read about the first time "Jungle" or "Rocket Queen" or "Nighttrain" was performed AND you get to hear it as well.

Nicely done, Marc! Well worth the price of admission.