![]() This book covers 10 of the 12 songs off Appetite for Destruction the first time they were played! ![]() The book is well designed and is a must for any GNR fan. Interviews with over 20 people including band members, roadies strippers, girlfriends, Tom Zutaut the A&R guy that signed the band, Mike Clink the guy who produced the record, Steve Thompson & Mike Barbiero the guys that mixed the record, and close friends of the band. This book covers the first 50 gigs that Guns N Roses did. 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. 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. ![]() His friend became the legendary guitarist Slash, and Canter found himself witnessing the creation of Guns N' Roses front and center. 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 the next great rock 'n' roll band. ![]()
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I ask where I am listening but never hearing to change my heart and open my ears to und erstand Y our W ord an d Y our ways for I repent for not being teachable and for being judgmental. I also repent where I cannot be told anything for I have thought that I knew it all and I repent of my haughtiness and loftiness. F ather I repent of all my stiff necked pride and stubbornness (Acts 7:51) with rebellion I repent of all religious and denominational pride, all ambitious pride and the iniquity of a critical spirit with cutting words and actions and even wanting and seeking vengeance. Y ou H ave N othing To Prove! “Father, I stand in the gap and repent for my ancestors on both sides of my family back over three, four, and seven and ten generations and even back over forty and one hundred generations for our great pride and our pride in all its forms. ![]() Prayer Renouncing Pride & Accepting What God Says About You. ![]() |