Ewan Dobson

Hello all,

I have returned to North America after engaging in a 12 date tour of England. I was so very fortunate to share the tour with fantastic musicians who I also consider my friends: Adam Palma, Jimmy Wahlsteen, and Antoine Dufour.


It was a short, but very intense tour considering there was travel and a show every single day. Especially enjoyable was the ginger beer which is much better than the ginger beer available in the North America.


I have no tour plans as of now and I have contacted an agent for some advice regarding future tours. If you can patronize my music, please do so here:

Now I am waiting for a Baritone guitar to be completed for me by luthier Michael Lagundo.

I used a fan-fret guitar built by him to tour the USA and UK. Many people approached me asking me about the slanted frets which I explained are called “fan-frets.” You can reach Michael Lagundo at

mrlagundo@gmail.com

Special thanks to Tuomo Tolenen and Peter Janis of Radial Engineering for sending me replacement power supplies for my Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre. These guys are really good at getting things done fast and efficiently in addition to manufacturing an awesome acoustic guitar pre-amp. They sent me replacement equipment to me while I was on the road. Talk about awesome back-up from your sponsors!!


Also, thanks to my other sponsors Elixir Strings for supplying the strings, Guptill Music for supplying the finger-picks and L.R. Baggs for supplying the pick-up. I toured using their products exclusively.


For now I am going to get back into writing new riffs for the time being. Thanks to everyone who came to support my tour mates and I at our shows across the USA and UK.


Sincerely,


Ewan Dobson

After finally receiving the information necessary to plan a trip to the UK I will be a part of the 2012 Candyrat Guitar Night Tour of the UK.
I will have cdz for sale at all the shows listed. Please call the venue or check the venue website for showtime. There is a possibility that my master list below may have time errors (possible, but not for sure).

Here are the dates:

Candyrat Guitar Night – U.K. 2012 Tour
Ewan Dobson, Antoine Dufour, Jimmy Wahlsteen and Adam Palma

Wednesday, May 2nd at 8:00pm – Brighton, UK – The Komedia (details)
Thursday, May 3rd at 8:00pm – Exeter, UK – The Phoenix (details)
Friday, May 4th at 8:00pm – Salisbury, UK – The Arts Centre (details)
Saturday, May 5th at 8:00pm – London, UK – The Borderline (details)
Sunday, May 6th at 8:00pm – Derby, UK – The Darwin Suite (details)
Monday, May 7th at 8:00pm – Leeds, UK – City Varieties Music Hall (details)
Tuesday, May 8th at 8:00pm – Wolverhampton, UK – The Robin (details)
Wednesday, May 9th at 8:00pm – Stratford, UK – Cox’s Yard (details)
Thursday, May 10th at 8:00pm – Manchester, UK – The Band on the Wall (details)
Friday, May 11th at 8:00pm – Gateshead, UK – The Sage (Gateshead) (details)
Saturday, May 12th at 8:00pm – Kendal, UK – The Brewery (details)
Sunday, May 13th at 8:00pm – Bristol, UK – Colston Hall 2 (details)

My apologies for all the publicly vented frustration regarding the tour planning. I’m the type of guy who says shit out loud when shit happens. Hope to see you there.





I will be doing a set at Cousin Mario’s in May’s Landing, NJ this Wednesday April 25th @ 9pm 5401 Harding Highway, Suite 3 Mays Landing, NJ 08330. Fans in the Philadelphia area may be able to make this one. I will have cdz for sale. Then, on Thursday April 26th I will be back at Maynard’s Cafe in Margate, NJ for a set starting at 9pm 9306 Amherst Ave. Margate, NJ 08402. These are the last two appearances where I can do a decent length set in USA before leaving for the UK on May 1st.

Please direct all questions regarding my absence from the UK tour to Dave Smith of NEM productions. http://www.nemproductions.com He didn’t want to provide an itinerary or let me know the specifics on how to go about planning the trip to the UK. A wall of silence persisted despite attempted requests for information from numerous sources. He ignored the emails requesting the information sent by the head of Candyrat Records. The lack of response lasted 3 and 1/2 weeks leading to extreme doubts as to the legitimacy of the agency.

Things got lightly heated during the frustration and led him to instruct me to put my own penis in my bum (“go fuck myself”). So I accepted the offer for some self-company.

I have no answers for you other than: I did not receive enough information in time to make a proper travel plan.

The promoters did their job well from what I have learned. The problem lied with the communication skills and punctuality of the agent.

Since I am now out of work for the time being I have requested for donations from patrons and fans in order assist my bare necessities and eventually purchase a baritone guitar to record album number 4. If you can donate please click on the donate button to the right on the main page. A sincere thank you to all who have assisted me through this.

Ewan Dobson

Hey everyone,

With the USA tour being a promoting flop and the lack of communication with the agent in England I have no choice but to withdraw from the tour of England. The promoter has demonstrated total unprofessional work ethic and lack of communication. He has not communicated to me any information on in regards to how much I should expect to be payed. In addition, I would have to pay to travel there and eat out of my pocket. There is also no contract which means that there is no guarantee that I would get paid if I went and played. All of these circumstances compiled mean that I would have to be a sucker to go and risk losing money so that some promoter can walk away with an undisclosed sum.

I was on disability for mild Tourette’s, OCD, ADHD and Schizoaffective for quite some time. I would like to avoid having to go back on disability by being paid for the work that I do. If you can help support please do. I choose not to go on medication because it hinders creativity and made me enormously fat when I was younger. It also is taxing on the liver. Since I have started to make some peanuts off my cd sales (I have crossed over the ZERO point) I rely on this more than ever.

Donate money:

Tuesday April 3rd is my last show for the USA Candyrat Guitar Night tour. I will not be playing for the remainder of the tour. Please check back for the confirmation of the tour of England which is up in the air right now.

UPDATED April 13th (NOTE: It was the Agent, not the promoter who lacked communication skills. So when reading below, replace promoter with agent)

Due to the promoter’s lack of communication on tour specifics it looks like I will have no choice but to withdraw from the tour in England. For the fans: I am sorry I won’t be able to play for you, but the promoter offers no contract or guarantee of any kind. Without a contract the promoter can take whatever percentage of the performance profit he wants and bullshit to me about how much he is taking. His communication skills are totally unprofessional and I would like to extend a warning to all Candyrat artists who are scheduled to deal with him.

I was looking forward to coming, but I don’t feel like being a victim of lousy communication when I work hard at what I do. The promoter is not answering our questions at all promptly and thinks he is doing us a favor by treating us like expendable dog shit.

Donate money on my website. The USA tour was a flop, and I will not likely be on the UK tour because the promoter thinks he can put a wall of silence up to people who ask smart questions. I was on disability for years and tried to branch out and to share music. I would like to avoid having to go back on disability pension and make a living playing music. The first step is to not let people take advantage of fucking me out of money which is why I am withdrawing from the UK tour.

On the USA tour.. the shows where the venue did promotion the turnout was good because the word got out. However, the promoter booked shows at shit hole bars that don’t do fuck all for promotion. They smear some shit on the back of a poster and stick it up on the wall in the piss room. The USA tour went apeshit because of poor venue choices in relation to promotion.

The UK tour is being handled by a guy who doesn’t answer questions and I was being told to accept this while not asking questions. As soon as I started to ask questions the whole thing went sideways because the promoter was acting like I was being done some gigantic favor by being allowed to play there. Sure, I appreciate the favor of being able to play, but I appreciate communication.

Play music for money is the paradox: It isn’t for the money, but I need the money in order to get the things I need to live life, which is what enables me to play the music.

Ewan

Hey ..

Touring the USA and England now..

check here for details >> Tour Dates 2012

and here >> Tour Dates on myspace

Hey folks,

Here are the tunings for Ewan Dobson III

Best Friend – C G C G C E
Blackberry Blossom – C# G# C# E# G# C# (Capo on 2nd)
My Nightmare – C G C G C Eb
Level 40 – C G C G Bb Eb
Hallelujah – D A D G B E
Ice Winter Rock – C G C G Bb C
Paganini in Spain – C G C G C E
Acoustimetallus Plectrus – C G C G C E
Donkey Kong Expansion Pack – C G C G C E
Caprice No. 10 – E A D G B E
Machinery – C G C G C E
The Pickle Jug – D A D G B E
Legend of the Brown Goat – C G C G C E
Kartuli Cekva Operidan “Daisi” – E A D G B E
Retro – C G C G C Eb
Nearer My God To Thee – D A D G B E

You may have noticed a different guitar sound on the recordings of Caprice No. 10 and Kartuli. That is because I used a Gypsy Jazz guitar to record them.

Ewan

Volume 2 of my instructional video is now available. It includes an alternate version of Time 2 that is fully transcribed and explained. It also includes an mp3 of the song.

© DC Music School / Ewan Dobson 2012

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Hey there,

Someone sent me some questions which I answered as honestly as possible.

Here it is:

Interview with Ewan Dobson