Canter co-wrote Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction, winner of an an IPPY for Pop Culture Book of the Year. As a photographer and historian, friend of the band and the owner of Canter's Deli where they often hung out, he's amassed images, ephemera and many stories; tonight he'll share them all.

As we wrote for their 30th anniversary, Appetite was a much-needed game-changer, both in the Los Angeles scene and for music in general, opening the floodgates for other unapologetically fierce music makers to be heard, from nostalgic bluesters like The Black Crowes to art-driven heavy hitters like Jane's Addiction to, ultimately, the glam decimators themselves, Nirvana. It made the hair-minded acts of the day look like wimps and heavier metal acts seem like cavemen. It brought danger and mystique back to rock music, the kind we hadn't seen since the Stones, Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin were in full swagger and The Ramones, Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop were raising hell.