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Yes, beyond a doubt it works and will become more appreciated in time like "Exile" by the Stones.

Funny how neither of the two co-founders are in the forward.

If you insist on going the 'original lineup' route then a second edition of Reckless Road would feature two co-founders of Guns N' Roses. Marc has secured the services of Rob Gardner and Tracii Guns if the book ever gets a re-release:

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/200899-drug-usehedonism/

Also NB the list of people who contributed:

Slash, Duff, Steven

Chris Weber (founding member of Hollywood Rose)

Vicky Hamilton

Mike Clink

Alan Niven

Just about everyone invovled in GN'R during the club days contributed and supported the book - except - W. Axl Rose.

Not to repeat a cliche but "Where's Izzy?" That would be the other Co-founder. Not Slash, Duff and certainly not Adler. Not Chris Weber who filed suit over BOB. Not wannabe manager Vicky Hamilton who thinks she got GNR signed, Not ex-managers Niven or Goldstein.

I think we all realize exactly who the co-founders are and aren't.

The sharks always circle when there is blood in the water.

Funny how neither of the two co-founders are in the forward.

Was it worth a broken relationship, several words come to mind like betrayal, and a broken trust loyalty issue. And yes I've dread all the stories and considered all angles.

You should read this topic, it dives into this and Marc gives some very interesting answers: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/190015-marcdid-you-feel-betrayed-as-well/

All in all based on the info that we have and only that, I am 100 percent on Marc's side on this one. He was not in the wrong to release the book in the slightest

Read it all before, Guess we are in opposite corners.

Poor, poor Axl. Everybody is out to screw him

biased much?

Marc is not Axl's servant. He worked from day one with and for the band, he worked for his book which contain his work. Nobody should tell him what to do with his work.

Apparently something went awry in Dreamland or they would still be at least on speaking terms. Just stating the obvious.

Maybe you miss the obvious. Axl is a control freak and he didn't like that Marc didn't listen to him.

Nothing amiss with controlling your own life and property in my book. It is necessary to obtain anything akin to peace of mind.

Was it worth a broken relationship, several words come to mind like betrayal, and a broken trust loyalty issue. And yes I've dread all the stories and considered all angles.

You should read this topic, it dives into this and Marc gives some very interesting answers: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/190015-marcdid-you-feel-betrayed-as-well/

All in all based on the info that we have and only that, I am 100 percent on Marc's side on this one. He was not in the wrong to release the book in the slightest

Read it all before, Guess we are in opposite corners.

Poor, poor Axl. Everybody is out to screw him

biased much?

Marc is not Axl's servant. He worked from day one with and for the band, he worked for his book which contain his work. Nobody should tell him what to do with his work.

Apparently something went awry in Dreamland or they would still be at least on speaking terms. Just stating the obvious.

Oh so this is similar to Fantasy Football? If so I'll happily trade Robin and Slash for Izzy.

Was it worth a broken relationship, several words come to mind like betrayal, and a broken trust loyalty issue. And yes I've dread all the stories and considered all angles.

You should read this topic, it dives into this and Marc gives some very interesting answers: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/190015-marcdid-you-feel-betrayed-as-well/

All in all based on the info that we have and only that, I am 100 percent on Marc's side on this one. He was not in the wrong to release the book in the slightest

Read it all before, Guess we are in opposite corners.

Poor, poor Axl. Everybody is out to screw him

biased much?

Then the phone rang - Doug Goldstein, manager of Guns N' Roses was on the line.

"He asked if I was ready to go back on the road," Duswalt said.

Guns N' Roses

Duswalt had first met Goldstein when the Guns N' Roses manager became head of security for Air Supply three years into Duswalt's stint with the band.

"I showed him the ropes on Air Supply, then he became the manger of Guns N' Roses," Duswalt said.

Duswalt signed on to be the personal assistant to Guns N' Roses frontman and co-founder Axl Rose.

"I basically managed all aspects of his life, from home to business to his performing life. I managed everything," Duswalt said. "I was the liaison to Axl, anyone who wanted to meet him backstage after the show, including many famous stars, had to go through me. I was in charge of keeping him out of trouble and helping him get ready to do a show."

Among his many duties Duswalt was in charge making sure his dressing rooms and hotels rooms were prepared to his liking and to handling his finances on the road.

"I was all things Axl," he said.

Duswalt worked for Guns N' Roses from 1991-94. He was on tour with the band 1991-93.

During his years with Air Supply and Guns N' Roses Duswalt traveled the globe.

"I've been in every state except Alaska and every continent except Antarctica," Duswalt said.

However, as Rose's assistant Duswalt said they didn't get out very often.

"I've traveled all over Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South America, Africa, Thailand, Israel, Turkey, all these places and the joke is that I got to see the hotel rooms in all these great cities because I was with Axl 24/7 and we couldn't really go out," Duswalt said. "Every time when we did go out it was a circus with all these people following us, so we usually just brought the entertainment inside the hotel."

While touring with Guns N' Roses Duswalt met his wife, Natasha. He was set up with Natasha, a model, by his sister who had worked with Natasha. He left Guns N' Roses to get married and start a family.

"We moved to Santa Clarita because we wanted a family, and I got out of the music industry because I didn't want to travel anymore," Duswalt said.

However, during his travels with Guns N' Roses Duswalt collected a treasure trove of "swag," memorabilia and entertaining stories.

Duswalt has piles of tour books, tickets from shows around the world, laminated backstage passes, drumsticks, guitar picks, autographed tour programs, photos and CDs and huge collection of newspaper clippings from all over the world.

One of his prized possessions is a double platinum record which is inscribed "presented to Craig Duswalt to commemorate more than 3 million copies each of Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2."

After Guns N' Roses

In the years since Duswalt gave up his life inside the music machine, he's found the public's fascination with Guns ‘N Roses hasn't waned.

"When people find out that I toured with Guns N' Roses they want to know everything and I decided that there was a little business in this," he said.

Duswalt has launched www.gnrstories.com to share his memories, in addition to videos, photos and updates of all things Guns N' Roses.

The Web site offers exclusive access with a $97 lifetime membership or a monthly membership of $9.97.

"I'm going to interview band and crew members and I'll interview other rock stars and every month I will add new content," he said.

Duswalt was quick to add that his Web site isn't a sordid "tell all" site, but a fun "insider's" look at his time with Axl Rose and the band.

"I was going to write a book, but a Web site I can continually update," he said.

The fascination of Guns N' Roses continues despite a 17 year lapse between Guns N' Roses last album featuring original content. A new album "Chinese Democracy" is reported to be on the way, but the release date is so elusive Duswalt is offering to give away a tourbook from the Guns N' Roses Metallica Stadium Tour 1992 to the person who guesses the correct date of the album's release.

Details of the contest are on the www.gnrstories.com Web site.

Was it worth a broken relationship, several words come to mind like betrayal, and a broken trust loyalty issue. And yes I've dread all the stories and considered all angles.

You should read this topic, it dives into this and Marc gives some very interesting answers: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/190015-marcdid-you-feel-betrayed-as-well/

All in all based on the info that we have and only that, I am 100 percent on Marc's side on this one. He was not in the wrong to release the book in the slightest

Read it all before, Guess we are in opposite corners.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Like, I don't want to talk about it. I don't care. It doesn't impact my life in any way. If all the churches in the world suddenly disappeared, I wouldn't even notice.

I feel this forum has become a flame war about religion recently, and quite honestly the atheists are just as annoying as the spiritual.

Can't there be something more to life than arguing about this bullshit? C'mon people, seriously.

if you believe the stories, Jesus didn't believe in religion either, he didn't hang out with the Pharisees but with thieves, whores, and his crew of barefoot, transient apostles.

Dogma turns the spirit into intolerable religion and multimillion dollar churches aren't needed.

True, Axl didn't legally hold up Reckless Road... he just severed a friendship...

Not to be disagreeable, but how should one react when a "friend" capitalizes on a portion of your life to further their own agenda and pad their own pockets? I see it as crossing a line and, the action taken was perfectly understandable.

Reckless Road had - and still does have - the endorsement of Slash, Steven, Duff and Izzy (albeit Izzy did a disappearing act when Marc was gathering interviews). That is 4/5 of the band it features. It even had the endorsement of the remaining 1/5 up until the point of release. Surely then, Reckless Road capitalises on 4/5 of a life, the 4/5's aggreeing to it? That is a clear message to ''go ahead'' with the release. Marc was a pivotal figure in the success of GN'R. He funded their flyers and gigs, spending something like $5.000 on them, out of his own pocket. He fed them sandwiches when they were living on the streets. It would not be going too far to say that, GN'R would have collapsed without his financial help. If there is somebody who has the right to put a book out on them, it is Marc. Plus, think of the benefit to the fans. Without RR we knew nothing about the 1985-86 period. With it, we know a whole lot more - perhaps 80% more. It is a superb book which has benefited fans immensly. No RR: remove the pictures, remove the setlists (with very interesting information), remove everything.If it was left to Axl, nothing would be released. Axl wants to lock up everything including his own, future music. RR filled a huge void and I am very gratefull it was released; I continue to look at it daily. 'Pad their own pockets'? Marc did not make much money on it, if any at all (I think he was screwed on the marketing but these are questions you should put to Marc). The book undersold

Was it worth a broken relationship, several words come to mind like betrayal, and a broken trust loyalty issue. And yes I've dread all the stories and considered all angles.

I'm having a friend that works in publishing find out as much as he can about Craig's book. I'll post whatever reply I get back from him on this thread, or if I can't find it, a new one.

Duswalt had a website scam going several years ago, if you bought a subscription to his site you could get "behind the scenes" info exclusively. He had a few teasers up about a trip to the Lourve, and being stuck on a boat cruise at the end of an insomniac episode.

That site got pulled because of file sharing, I guess he found an alternate way to cash in.

True, Axl didn't legally hold up Reckless Road... he just severed a friendship...

Not to be disagreeable, but how should one react when a "friend" capitalizes on a portion of your life to further their own agenda and pad their own pockets? I see it as crossing a line and, the action taken was perfectly understandable.

I do think you greatly misunderstood or just don't know the intentions and history behind the making and eventual release of Reckless Road.

Apparently the book was put before a long term friendship, so you can look at it in a variety of lights and interpretations. Two very important words are Loyalty and trust.

Also, how do you imagine Axl feels about "canter banter?"

True, Axl didn't legally hold up Reckless Road... he just severed a friendship...

Not to be disagreeable, but how should one react when a "friend" capitalizes on a portion of your life to further their own agenda and pad their own pockets? I see it as crossing a line and, the action taken was perfectly understandable.

Why dont you ask Marc, hes explained it before.

Got zero interest in hearing explanations.

True, Axl didn't legally hold up Reckless Road... he just severed a friendship...

Not to be disagreeable, but how should one react when a "friend" capitalizes on a portion of your life to further their own agenda and pad their own pockets? I see it as crossing a line and, the action taken was perfectly understandable.