GuitarInternational.com's Rob Cavuto has issued an interview conducted with AEROSMITH documentary Rock For The Rising Sun director, Casey Patrick Tebo. An excerpt from the interview follows:

Q: Tell me how the Aerosmith Rock For The Rising Sun DVD came to be and your relationship with the band?

A: "It was never meant to be a formal release. As an Aerosmith fan, and a filmmaker who’s worked with them for so many years, it was pretty exciting for me to be able to put this together and bring it to the fans. I had met Steven (Tyler) one night at a show in Boston Garden either 2004 or 2005 when I did some video production work. He said, 'You’re pretty good with that camera. Why don’t you come on tour with me and film my life? Maybe we’ll do something with it'. So I went on the road and filmed basically everything that he did and I still have all those tapes, but nothing ever came of it.

"Steven and I got to become very close. I was, basically, living with him. He would get these hotel rooms on the road, and I would get like the assistant’s room or the kid’s room. We became really close and he got to know me as a person and trust my artistic instincts. Then he and Joe (Perry) started letting me do other things like directing their live shows for the screen. And anytime they did a big awards show or something, I would just sort of come in and help out and just sort of make sure everything was up to snuff with the Aerosmith brand.

"So Steven and Joe called me to go to South America and Japan. I didn’t want to tour because I had a child but my wife said, 'Go ahead'. This was a couple of months after the Fukushima disaster. When we went down to South America, something very strange was going on. When I toured with these guys in the past, Steven and Joe did not get along because of one reason or another, or they’re not speaking, or the band was mad at Steven, but when we went to South America everybody was getting along. They were all spending time together. The shows were over the top amazing. We got to Paraguay, if you recall Steven got sick, fell in the bathroom, and smashed his face up. The press was like, 'He’s on drugs; the tour is over'.

"What the press didn’t tell you was that everyone got sick there. So we postponed the show one day and when I tell you that next day in Paraguay and he put on probably the best Aerosmith show I’ve ever seen. As for the rest of the shows in South America, were equally amazing. So we came home for 10 days, and we started getting these calls, 'Don’t pack your stuff yet. Things over there are really bad in Japan; people are getting radiation sickness'. A couple of days before we were supposed to leave, they’re like the band wants to play for the Japanese fans.

"I didn’t have a big production for the trip. I was using the cameras that we shot the shows with for the screens. So the film definitely had a little more of an organic feel. I feel it’s not so big, and bright, and fast. There’s a little bit more there."

Read the complete interview at this location.

According to Rocksquare.com, Rock For The Rising Sun will be screened for one night only on Tuesday, July 16th in a scant ten theaters across the UK. For more details visit Myvue.com.

Rock For The Rising Sun follows the Bad Boys from Boston across Japan in the months after the devastating nuclear meltdown, will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in North America on July 23rd via Eagle Rock Entertainment.

In March 2011 Japan was beset by a huge earthquake, a monstrous tsunami and the subsequent meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. In the fall of 2011, despite advice to the contrary, Aerosmith brought their Back On The Road tour to Japan, a country with which they'd always had a special relationship.

The Japanese fans came out in their droves and Aerosmith responded with some of the finest gigs of their distinguished career. This film follows the band on that tour combining full length live tracks with behind the scenes footage which is at times touching and emotional and at others humorous and insightful. More than anything else it demonstrates the Japanese fans love affair with Aerosmith and their music.

Tracklisting:

'Draw The Line'

'Love In An Elevator'

'Livin' On The Edge'

'Hangman Jury'

'No More No More'

'Mama Kin'

'Monkey On My Back'

'Toys In The Attic'

'Sweet Emotion'

'Boogie Man'

'Rats In The Cellar'

'Movin' Out'

'Last Child'

'S.O.S. (Too Bad)'

'Walk This Way'

'Train Kept A Rollin'' (credits)

Landing in Tokyo just 6 months after Fukushima, Aerosmith began the Japanese leg of their world tour in devastating circumstances. This film directed by Casey Patrick Tebo, documents both the performances and the band’s relationship with Japan. A love letter between the Japanese fans who were living under the umbrella of recent tragedy, and the band who simply, while after being warned not to go there, went to heal with the only medicine they could... the music.