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G
uns N' Roses were one of the sleaziest, most reckless -- and greatest -- rock bands
of the modern era. During the group's formative days, in the mid-1980s, Axl
Rose and his bandmates lived a skid row existence on the Sunset Strip,
reveling in a life of drugs, groupies, wild street parties and music.
In the September 2008 issue of Playboy magazine Stephen Davis (author of the unauthorized biography Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses) looks at the band's romantic, rebellious infancy, as the Gunners struggled to get signed and survive the rock-and-roll jungle.
Here we present an exclusive audiovisual tour through GNR's wild youth with behind the scenes photos and audio clips from the award-winning book Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction. The book (available as a traditional book and in an innovative multimedia version) is built around photographs and audio clips taken by Marc Canter, a friend of Slash's since childhood. Canter documented Slash's rise through L.A.'s rock underground, from his days shredding in a high school garage band to conquering the world with Guns N' Roses. Together with journalist and film director Jason Porath, Canter created Reckless Road as a multimedia scrapbook of the glory days of GNR.
Read an excerpt from Stephen Davis's forthcoming book Watch You Bleed:
The Saga of Guns N' Roses in the September issue of Playboy magazine.
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