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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/guns-n-roses-taps-dale-rage-resteghini-to-shoot-tour  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 front man 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."  That doesn't mean footage from the Better video is from Resteghini though btw. I think that will be from Jason D'avesra who was shooting a documentary on the road with them in 2006. If you ever see video with Property Of Lush Productions stamped on it then that comes from his stuff. August Jakobsson, Tim Fraser, Resteghini, & Jason D'avesra will all have stuff probably. Robert John sold his footage last year to a wealthy fan. Other people like Nicholas Peterson were approached to do video's but either never happened or perhaps did and we just don't know about it.      

From the excitement on Jimmy Fallon’s face when he introduced them, to about ten seconds later when I saw NuGuns for the first time. That’s all it took for me to realize my favorite band really was dead. 

Reminds me of when Steven used to pop off every few months or so. At least he seems to be living a nice quiet life these days with the occasional Adler’s Appetite show.    It really is odd that he would continue like this. Maybe the only sound bites that get published are the negative ones, but Matt has been negative towards Axl for a long time. I mean, the original version of his book was basically a failed attempt to make him look cooler than anyone else. 

Impossible argument to win, there's a select group of people that just like the Axl doesn't play with others card, and no matter what we hear or see from people that work with him it won't change. Obviously Axl decides if he wanted to put a vocal on a track he said "I like this, I don't like that, can you do something like ... here?" One thing that was clear was he was looking to make music with people and not just write 14 songs and have people play on them.  Anyway the people that know, know, the others? What can you say. I guess they think it's like Megadeth where Dave says they have creative freedom, but in reality it's creative freedom within the bottleneck of Megadeth

They just have to figure out how to release an album at times like this