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World-renowned music video director Dale "Rage" Resteghini has announced his new collaboration with Axl Rose and GUNS N' ROSES. Rage has been hired by Axl to document and shoot stills for the band's current South American tour.

Because of his unique eye, Rage has been asked throughout the years to shoot for metal and rock magazines and bands. However, due to his extremely busy schedule, he's not had the time to focus on anything other than videos. Still photography is a long-awaited career swing for Rage as he is better known for his music video and feature film directing, but with a resume as impressive as Rage's, it is sure to be a success.

According to a press release from Adrenaline PR (Rage's publicists), Axl wants to make some videos later in the year in support of GUNS N' ROSES' latest album, "Chinese Democracy", on the same grand scope and style of classics such as "November Rain".

Commented Rage: "Axl Rose is the quintessential rock-star frontman and is all things you'd expect and some you would not expect. He is very humorous and very, very passionate about his fans and ensuring that the legacy of GN'R as being one of most incredible and best-selling rock bands in the history of music remains intact."

Resteghini was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised by blue-collar parents to whom Rage attributes his workaholic attitude. Rage is a man of many skills, as he is a sought-after director, runs his own management company called Raging Nation Management with his wife and partner, Kim, and helms his own production company. Rage also a record label imprint called Raging Nation Records, which is also run with his wife.

Since 2003 Rage has directed over 550 music videos, including clips for such metal bands as MUDVAYNE, HATEBREED, ANTHRAX, and SHADOWS FALL. Rage has also helmed videos for some of the biggest names in the hip hop world, including Lil Wayne, Diddy, Snoop Dog, and Ice Cube.

Rage's ability to do what he does stems from his youthful competitive nature and where he grew up. He does this with a chip on his shoulder with always something to prove. He says, "I was not supposed to be here. I should have been dead at least 10 different times in my life. I was arrested and in trouble a lot as a kid and not just the 'regular' little stuff and spent some real time locked up. For me to be here at this point in my life at the level of success I work in and being married to an amazing wife as well as being blessed to live where we live is an absolute dream. I did not go film school, I fight the politics of the business every day as well as break a lot of the rules and I do things my way, which is always coming from a place of wanting to do the very best job for my clients and it's that approach that has brought me all of my success and now I'm able to tour the world with a legendary band like GN'R. It's incredible and unbelievable at once."

For more information, visit www.ragingnation.tv.

Hope this works out : ok:

sounds good:)

hopefully the docu will see the light of day.
And for those video's idea... NOT BAD!

sounds like a great deal to me promoting something after a rerelease:)

Well it's good to know that something is in the works regarding tour documentary/music video/etc.

If it is I really hope for Brasilia's sake, that the wonderful banner displayed during PC will be included. Definitely a nice piece to the tour.

Best news I've heard in a long time.  Can't wait till this comes out,

YES YES AND FUCKING BIG YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME NEWS!


Saturday morning I'll meet them, and at night, finally the concert, in the best sector. AND NOW A DVD?!

CAN IT GET ANY BETTER?!?!??!?!?!?

GREAT GREAT NEWS!!!! Axl is doin' everything very well!  : ok:

Great news... YES! 

Ugh. That's my initial reaction, but it's a selfish reaction. I want the next cd, the follow-up to CD. More, more, more.....I want more. The future promotion of Chinese Democracy delays new material.

Putting that aside, this actually sounds fantastic. Axl putting himself and the band out there even more. He obviously has a vision of how he wants Chinese Democracy out there, and has not given that up.

Hopefully a re-release will at least contain some bonus tracks.

I'm hoping for a couple of bonus tracks for each cd featuring different covers.

I wonder if this means Better will get another shot as a single.

Was Better really ever officially released as a single?

This "Rage" guy was brought up before.  Didn't he say something about working on the "Better" video or something?

Yes, it was in the US. It's time to get over Better and the Better video......plenty of songs on the album could be singles.

Yeah, I think it was said that he was directing the Better video back in 2008.

The source for this story...

GUNS N' ROSES Taps DALE 'RAGE' RESTEGHINI To Shoot Tour Documentary - Mar. 9, 2010

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=136413

Yes, a picture with Jarmo.


I'm going to take one...do you?  :hihi:

Just been on his page can only see HIP HOP videos has he made any rock ones??

Won't celebrate until I have the product in my hand.

just the news i been waiting for  :D.

Axl has said on record that he's a fan of the Hip hop genre, I guess given Restegini's attitude to life and the connection to Hip hop would put the two together.  I regards to CD and the release of singles (if that's what you think the video's are for) I think its the wrong conclusion. I see CD as an audio/video combo. All we have is part one, the second part being a visual interpretation of most of the songs.

That said I'd be surprised if Sorry got made into a video, Axl has said that he's not going into detail about his vision of it, leaving listeners to make their own decisions about it.  Good news if its true, but I'd rather hear from the Gn'R camp itself before getting too excited about it...

It was shot right before the tour started: http://www.videostatic.com/vs/2009/12/shot-guns-n-roses-rage-director.html (http://www.videostatic.com/vs/2009/12/shot-guns-n-roses-rage-director.html)


I also remember Rage had an ad up for a job as a photographer just before the Canadian leg of the tour. It was described as a chance to work with one of the greatest rock bands on the planet.

Great news...

Yeah that's great news! anybody knows what happened to the 06-07 documentary by Jonathan Rach?  :-\

Good news!

Hopefully we will get some cool music videos!  : ok:

The world needs a guns & roses video! this i love,street of dreams,twat,chinese democracy would be great options,and so would be better but less than the other ones imo

with you on that one.  Lets not forget that there is allegedly hundreds of hours of footage from the "Use Your Illusion" tour that was filmed for a documentary style GNR movie back from 1991-1993 that still has never seen the light of day.  But this is good news regardless,  I would be a first day buyer if this "Chinese Democracy" documentary comes out.

yes he has, check his wikipedia page
with ya brah, and then i will furkin celebrate!

curious. I remember he said the old videos was a bit cheesy (can't find the exact quote)
and I agree, except for some, like Garden Of Eden for example.

good news for the documentary thing, anyway !

That's awesome!!  Can't wait for that!!!   ;D

This is great - hopefully it will be officially confirmed soon :)

Huge news for any GNR fan, old band fan or new band fan! : ok:

CHINESE DEMOCRACY STARTS NOW ! UUUYAAAAAA!  :hihi:

Yeah that was it.  So I wonder if there is a video of "Better" that is actually done but for some reason hasn't been released?  And if so, if that version will ever be released or if they'll go in a different direction?

Well it was said that he captured what axl/gnr needed so I'm guessing the vid is done but won't be released for any reason. but this is a great thing a new documentairy about gnr today is like world epic.

Oh this would be fantastic, but I'm not getting my hopes up anytime soon.

Looks like good news, to go along with all the other good news lately :)  This band is top notch these days :)  :peace:

That's awesome!! GREAT !!

 :beer: :smoking: :beer:

Could have something to do with Robin's departure from the band. Maybe Jarmo or Fernando can enlighten us?

the video was made in 09 before the tour. not in 07

A video like Estranged & Co? I'd love it, but I'm 100% sure (even more) that the band would have to pay for such a video: videos don't have the same impact as 15-20 years ago, the state of the music industry is catastrophic, and to put out a video to promote an album out since November 2008 is a little strange (insane?) IMHO.

I'd love a new big GN'R music video, but I'll believe when I see it.

I hope they do a DVD/documentary of the actual tour. 

Perhaps, but music video's still have a purpose even in today's scene
youtube is a new way.
downloads is a way.(wich the music buss have to look into for not falling appart soon)
and some mtv's are still showing video's (unlikely) but yes they still do.

And I think that axl still wants to do chinese the right way is that he is holding on to something he believes in and that's his bussiness, it's amazing after all they've been through.
I think it's awesome they are still fighting for that album!

Hopefully it will be released for real this time. In my eyes it was not actually released as a single. Never heard it on the radio, never saw a video for it....    ;)


That was on Eddie Trunk. Eddie said he loved the videos for the UYI-albums. Then Axl said something like: "Well...looking back on them I think they're a bit cheesy. But I liked the filming of them, that whole aspect..."

Regardless, a documentary or video would be great at this point! Cool to know that stuff is happening!   : ok:

Wow, music videos dont know if they'll catch on ::)

A valid GREEK site announced that Guns n Roses will make a documentary with footage from the tour in South America. With the same DIRECTOR they will make and some videos from the Chinese Democracy in style of November Rain

 I do not know if it's true. But I hope so...

Forgive me because I do not speak English very well... (I'm Greek!)

source : http://www.rocking.gr/article7168.php (http://www.rocking.gr/article7168.php) (Greek)

true

can be locked

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=59247.0

Sorry, I did not see this...   :(

It's alright but it's still cool they will shoot it.

No problem! Everyone's excited about it :P

Q - @richardfortus Richard, it's true that the South American tour was recorded by Dale Resteghini?

A - @nicobatalla He was out for a minute at the beginning of the tour. Didn't work out though



Damn, I was excited about this. Hope they find someone else to continue the project.

A concert/tour documentary Blu Ray would be the ultimate coolness!

Oh man I really hope this one works out, that would be so cool to watch! ???

Well thats a bummer  :-\

Honestly people, did you really think anything would come from this?

I dont wanna be negative, but im kinda disappointed... :-\ Iv been waiting for CD2 for long... with this news... it probably means we're gonna have at least 2 more years of Chinese Democracy and a new album in like 5 years....Shit! Not digging that :crying:

This hasn't got anything to do with a new album...

Exactly, I don't know if you was joking but I honestly can't work out how you came up with that conclusion.  :P

I didn't but I was hoping to be wrong. :(

Well, that's sad. I hope they're working on a new album, during the breaks between the legs of this tour.  :drool:

It would be cool to know what they are planning on doing next (appart from touring of course).

We know Axl has said that the majority of the music and vocals are done for the second album, but as with everything else in the world, things change. Dj has become part of the band, and I'm sure his guitar sound will be present on the next release.

They could probably release the next one at any one time if they want to... but knowing Axl and Guns N' Roses they wanna go out and do it right. Which probably means DJ have a lot of guitar bits put down for the album.

I'm also really excited about Richards work for the upcoming releases. That man can throw out some gooood riffs I'm sure.