Don Ross - Afraid to Dance - www.candyrat.com

[paddedshell]

damn damn damn, why didn't I take flight to Canada back in the '60s? the states get nugent while this is happening in Toronto? DAMN!

[MrFantasioSpirou]

AMAZING!!!!

[Hadrhune0]

The groovish-est piece here on youtube.

[nickeyfumi]

Love and Light

[VALARLIGHT]

The great thing about Don Ross is not only does he play awesome music, he also loves to groove to it and have a good time, rather than standing about like a depressed lemon...

[DartM109]

Damn... hearing this, I'd be afraid to dance as well!

[miratengocuentamira]

i feel a little bit of pressure in my pelvic area when i hear this

[Drei7717]

afraid to dance? I'm afraid to watch O_o

[snowboardman720]

that poor guitar..

[grinryan5633]

Most under-appreciated musician in the history of music...

[Vikdrums24]

yeah!

[guitarmeister109]

I didn't know Hagrid played guitar!

[grinryan5633]

@guitarmeister109 Really original...

[jazzuntuni]

DON ROSS: - When you absolutely, positively, got to kill every motherfucker in the room....

[diplomata1990]

@jazzuntuni hahahahaha

[CamVlog]

27 people needed the "Pick of Destiny" to get that good.

[Tralman1965]

Don looks like Peter Jackson.

[DrumNBum]

@Tralman1965 very much alike and i cant get over it. both equally talented too ehh?

[Tralman1965]

@DrumNBum Yep. 2 of the best at what they do.

[eza27]

"Afraid to Dance" or "Afraid of Falling through the Dance Floor"

[tecolumpiodelos]

is he the bob ross son of??

[evander5150]

awesome player !

[AndrificusMaximus]

@BenMurrie Haha! Yeah, we just have really good ears I guess :P

[AndrificusMaximus]

@BenMurrie HAHAHA!! EXACTLY!!! You heard it too?? Lol! I thought I was the only one! No one else has commented on it!

[strykr360]

i felt like a lightning bolt just hit the tip of my penis



[TheLillyguitarist]

WOW!!!I m speechless now!!! that was relly gorgeous'!!! :-0......

[TheLillyguitarist]

WOW

[AuturgyFilms]

I love how he gives credit to the guitar :) very humble

[fendertelecaster100]

You can tell he's not afraid to dance

[SuperGorak]

Those "woah! Yeah! Woo!" screaming people are all men over the age of 50, they own and work on a farm and have a college degree in physics or philosophy. I know few of those

[niecey101]

Dammmnnnn, like not gonna lie, if you were younger...I'd totally marry you. This is amazing.

[passionfruit617]

Christ, when did Hagrid get so good at guitar? Must of been some sort of guitar potion Harry and Ron conjoured up. Little Scamps.

[Joyland20101]

Love this tune

[joeyleotard]

hey conrad, yeah this guy good shit, get on with your music man!!!!!!!!!!!!! joey xxx

[hijituso]

terrible mistake at 3:15!

[Ducksarentforever]

@hijituso at first i thought , what the hell ? this guy and mistakes ? no way ! ..... but then i noticed that you're totally right ! :D

[prateekarora01]

I feel blessed having seen this

[MagnumBullets47]

2:16 - That harmonic was like :" Ohh yeahh fuck you! I´m badass!" : )

[Lightningspiner]

like a grooving, dancing bear

[insaneguitarfreak]

@Lightningspiner HAHAHA

[michaelluke]

2:15. YOU LOSE

[slutbucketism]

This is J.K Rowlings inspiration for hagrid. A heavily Bearded real-life magician.

[GarretsShadow]

@slutbucketism been done way too many times.....

[slutbucketism]

@GarretsShadow just like... YOUR ANUS!

[deadly9420]

25 Dislike ? WTF !

[TeresaCruz]

@deadly9420 Jealousy is such a petty thing, isn't it...?

[deadly9420]

@TeresaCruz Fuck yeah...

[maurotyler]

Harmonic at 2:16 is a shot in da face. DR can bring sounds from another dimension... cheater..

[Muzikman127]

@maurotyler It's insane isn't it.... I swear that's not possible...

[pragmatismnotidealis]

People need to shut up when he's playing

[BenShTurner]

@pragmatismnotidealis Because the only way to enjoy music is in silent contemplation? I think you're missing a big part of music if that's how you feel. If I'm playing to a crowd I would love the feedback, I'm sure Don does too. How could you possibly fault people for getting into the music enough to want to voice how they're feeling?

Most musicians labour away at their music in the hopes of spreading the joy it brings them to others, and it doesn't get much more joyful than an energetic crowd.

[pragmatismnotidealis]

@BenShTurner No, because I can't hear what he's playing. Do you break into applause every 30 seconds when someone is giving a speech, in the great american tradition of over enthusiasm?

[BenShTurner]

@pragmatismnotidealis If this were a studio recorded album I'd agree with you, but this this is a live recording from a venue. DVD's like this are made to capture the magic you don't get from a studio recorded album.

The performance was for the audience, who enjoyed it, as did Don. If you want to hear the song without the live setting ambiance, then you probably shouldn't be watching a DVD of a Live performance. I'm not trying to pick fights, it just struck me as an odd thing to complain about.

[pragmatismnotidealis]

@BenShTurner What magic? His whole album that this song is off is live and the audience clap at the end... it comes from the latin audio.. to LISTEN. jesus man get your head out of your arse!

[BenShTurner]

@pragmatismnotidealis The song is high energy and it's meant to get people going, I'm terribly sorry your little world was broken because a few people got enthusiastic during a concert. But it's you who needs to get your head out of your arse.

Do you get pissed off at stand up comedy shows when people wont stop laughing too? How dare they ruin YOUR enjoyment. Grow the fuck up and let it slide, perhaps even join in the fun. You might enjoy life a bit more.

[MySnowfox]

Reminds me of Beauty and the Beast... But i'm pretty sure that Beauty can't play guitar...

[AndrificusMaximus]

Lol!! Awesome Led Zeppelin homage at 1:46

[HaythemMohamed]

The reactions at the start say it all... "woahhh... yeah!!"

[Adeptmind]

@HaythemMohamed Was totally my reaction too!

[dkofthesky]

this guy is awesome!

[QuisPiss]

they were live in toronto?

FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[eloelo14]

i love the joke. Afraid to Dance, a title of a song of high groove. :D

[wingostrat]

i cant hold back the smiles don's playing forces them out of me!!!

[89elms]

smell that?  that just the guitars ass bein' shreded.

[reppait]

I don't like very much the sound of this guitar ,I'd like to hear him playing Andy mckey's guitar . Don's first version is beautyfull the other guitar sounded better for this song ...anyway he's always a god :)

[Honghaguitarist9]

very nice...

[NEXutTORUSramenMETAL]

That was the most unwasted 3 minutes and 30 seconds of my life

[1962RJP]

What a beautiful and delicate calamity

[bigman6190]

he makes me want to quit

[Seekillbeing]

@bigman6190 He makes me want to re-start!

[bigman6190]

@Seekillbeing Thats intresting, might as well right? lol

[humsidah]

hagrid! you just charmed that guitar to make beautiful music. hehee

[AmundLauritzen]

He is like Joe Pass, just playing a different style. One man, one instrument and SO much music!

[BboyNsnow4life]

i knew it !! i was the only one beliving hagride can do magic !!!!! and i was right !!!!!

[Gemaijl]

afraid to dance?!...Don is actually dancing, isn't he? :)...but it is awesome all dancing and playing



[Gemaijl]

afraid to dance?!...Don is actually dancing, isn't he? :)...but it is awesome all dancing and playing

[mycahman]

I like to think of this as "Camping on an Avalanche"

[dbspaceoditty]

25 people play electric and are jealous.

[TheHanafymm]

michael manring is better :P

[00Zenigata]

Good Joke Man. XP

[wahooka123]

And the guitar bows on the end....I knew there was something different.He has a magical guitar!

[frogmanandy]

this is wrong in the best way

[asgarrott]

xD i really love all kinds of metal and i love good music even if its not metal.. but when i listen to this im like WOAH.. to show you my face when i first heard it:

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOO

[BlackThunder885]

@asgarrott Do you need a towel? It looks like you may be drooling a little O_o

[4Fin4]

It's like Beethoven was reborn, but decided to play guitar instead of piano.

[giovannipadrigo]

The Beast has been unleashed

[dantean]

Cute.

[rschoon]

People like this on You Tube and Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black become famous?!?!?!?

[delpaso501]

@rschoon seriously what the fuck is wrong with people this is waaaaaayyyyyyyy better than any of that bull shit

[rschoon]

People like this on You Tube and Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black become famous?!?!?!?

[NEXutTORUSramenMETAL]

So lively

[yolchie]

Awwww, 24 dislikes from bitter people who don't get to play guitar for a living. Drop your mouse and practice ya' big babies!!! BAHAHA!!!

[InsanitysApothecary]

Marry me?!

[shioriryukaze]

I would love to hear all of this live... just blasting in my face!.... sooo good!

[Hadrhune0]

Cameraman shake your ass!

[MrDerf13]

24 people dislike pure awesomeness? impossible, or perhaps they're just jealous that they will probably never be this good

[shioriryukaze]

@MrDerf13 do not feel sorry for the nonbelievers.... the way he smacks that guitar he just blasted their hate with the sounds of groove!

[twz87]

That opening just shut up everyone in the hall haha

[jman99110]

what button do u have to press to make that happen?

[Timoteo221]

@jman99110 The beast button... :D

[SuperPawelski]

yessssssssss

[weebok4412]

I'd tap that...

[Jayfs100]

how could you dislike this, it's great.

[CinemaCrypt]

Don Ross is one of the best guitar players I have ever seen. His talent and skill is just amazing. Also all the soul he throws in it helps as well!

23 people are jealous!

[wyattdawg]

@1mpr3zaz HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[guitarshred67]

dont feed the trolls plz , just enjoy t3h muuuuziks KTHXSTFU <3

[mvdiablo]

@guitarshred67 (wold it b nice if evry1 talkd like dis cuz ur so itelligent, take ur gurl out 2 kfc cuz u think she is da 1).....I mean right? go to school and properly put words together to form a sentence, then you actually sound knowledgeable. "KTHAXSTFU" you sound like a little immature high school girl who is just psm'ing the day away...

[guitarshred67]

@mvdiablo zzzz just enjoy his amazing talent u silly fool and just dont talk. Cheers.

[brennanryan89]

this song reminds me of " michael michael michael." any one else agree?

[sprinter1089]

@brennanryan89 yeah they are very similar

[musik102]

I'm not sneering at Don Ross! I think he's terrific! But, I believe that these "acoustic" guitar with on-board mics can make certain techniques more useable than a guitar played through an external mic.

Let's look at it another way. If Don Ross was in the sudio recording "Afraid to Dance", and could only use one mic, which would he choose?

I bet he would definitely use a internal mic inspite of the fact that an external mic - used alone - would give a more natural, truer sound.

[mcmanustony]

@musik102

your initial comment was that it wasnt even a genuine acoustic guitar and that if it were you'd be amazed if Don could play the same piece on a "genuine" acoustic- an absurd and idiotic insult to both Don Ross and luthier Marc Beneteau. Why can't you grasp this- it's not difficult. were you to be sitting in front of Don playing this tune you'd here the same as you hear on this video. the contribution of the internal mic to the technicalities of playing this tune are precisely nil.

[musik102]

No,no! Once you place a mic inside a guitar everything changes! For example, if I tap on the fingerboard of a guitar that has a mic attached to it, then an onboard mic is a lot more sensitive to that tapping than mic placed some distance form the guitar. Even if that distance is only 6 ins.

Or, put another way, if someone was playing a purely acoustic guitar in your livingroom, it's a different animal than same guitar with a mic attached played through an amp/speaker.

[mcmanustony]

@musik102

you were, in a condescending and sneering way, suggesting that the electronics in Dons guitar made it possible for him to make the sounds he does. you are totaly wrong and incapable of being told so.

you are also wrong about mic placement. I have two melville guitars with condenser mics on the end of the fingerboard it makes not the slightest difference to the effect of tapping on the fingerboard. my greenfield has a mic in a simmilar place to don's...same deal.

[FizzicksDude]

@mcmanustony Just want to interject that I am very jealous of your guitar collection....

[musik102]

But, you must agree that it amplifies it differently than a mic.

Also, there are lots of sounds that plugged in guitarists get that wouldn't work well on an unplugged guitar. Examples? Tommy Emmanuel's "scratching" near the bridge, and lots of percussive striking of the body just wouldn't be as affective on an unplugged guitar; although the blessed Bob Brozman gets some great unplugged percussive sounds - but that's from a metal bodied guitar.

[mcmanustony]

@musik102

look carefully at 1 second into the video. do you see that thing in the sound hole. the little white thing- actually it's metallic. Do you know what that is? It's a....gasp....microphone. you are listening to an acoustic guitar. to suggest othewise is just absurd.

tommy's techniques have no bearing here. though maybe you'd dispute the skill needed for that since it's plugged in?

[musik102]

Acoustic guitar? Ask Bob Brozman if he thinks it qualifies as an acoustic guitar!

[mcmanustony]

@musik102

or I could ask my friend and world class acoustic luthier Marc Beneteau who built the guitar. Bob Brozman? why? what does bob's opinion have to do with it? it's obviously an acoustic guitar as he would agree.

you rather sneeringly suggest that Don's sound is dependent on electronics and you are wrong. all the system in don's guitar does is AMPLIFY whats happening acoustically.

[kdjfnvjvd]

haha DR is the best! i like how at the end he bows the guitar

[shibbi972]

he should be afraid to dance ^^

[JackieBrown114]

wickedest fourth harmonic!!!

[1962RJP]

Heavy metal acoustic guitar

[millantoo]

@1962RJP

it's called heavy wood, my friend

[SirSchranzALot]

caught myself applauding.

this is freakin amazing.

[Artthas3]

@idomtalan fail

[idomtalan]

@Artthas3 What the f@@k are you talking about?

[capnpablo]

Why won't my guitar do that?

[TheBassMan533]

@capnpablo

its not the guitar its player my friend.

[leilaallameh78]

@capnpablo : It will bro! Just have faith and make your guitar your third hand! :-)

[PayatLumpia]

@capnpablo Hahah



[abfplano54]

@capnpablo your guitar wants to know why you dont do that to it

[QcMetalMusican]

@abfplano54 Hahah! Best reply ever!

[grinryan5633]

@capnpablo Maybe it can... he has an instructional DVD of this song on his website. Check it out...

[MultiCasinoRoyale1]

@capnpablo hahahaahaha

[clgrnt]

@capnpablo It's kind of disheartening to see it sitting there, and know it's capable of this but will never achieve it isn't it :(

[empirornadeem44]

@capnpablo I guess would be bad user ;)

[BraveDiesel11]

@capnpablo coz you are doing that

[theaniallator95]

AWESOME!!!!! with i could do that

[imakeice]

It's unfortunate so many people think that the guitar is an instrument meant for strumming chords behind bad vocals.

[lennarddudelu]

is that a baritone? cause the tuning is EEDEEE and you can´t play that on baritone with a normal tuned high e-string??!

[ZebMacahan]

@lennarddudelu

The tuning is "EBDEBE" and it's not a baritone! =)

[lennarddudelu]

@ZebMacahan

Is this the same model as in Micheal, Micheal, Micheal?

[mickeyblues666]

OmGod Amazing

[upabittoolate]

I don't believe in God but I PRAY that he gets together with Bireli at some point.

[HarmPoy]

@upabittoolate Lagrene? They would certainly be an interesting match.

[upabittoolate]

@HarmPoy Definitely. I think some might go into it assuming that Ross isn't a jazz guy but jazz actually is folk music; it's very complex but it's still folk music. I also got to see Lagrene doing some acoustic stuff once. I think they'd mesh well. It also seems like Lagrene sorely misses his mentor.

[ILikeTheRain123]

I so air guitaried to this :L

[laiguang]

WTF @ 2:16

[cobaltw]

i didnt know santa clause could play guitar

[randallflaggg1]

i should try to steal his beard so i can play like that!

[ryushiRj38]

"You're a wizard, Harry!"

*breaks out guitar*

[Seabearr]

@ryushiRj38 HAH

[sydneybmx]

thumbs up for the harmonic at 2:16!

[pyrotas]

@sydneybmx Thumbs up for the whole Don Ross!!!

[latinumbavariae]

@sydneybmx

yeah - simply amazing how he pops such a clear ringing harmonic at the third fret.

[latinumbavariae]

@latinumbavariae

ahhh.. finally got it, its fiftth fret on the second string...

[latinumbavariae]

@latinumbavariae

ahhh.. finally got it, its fiftth fret on the second string...

oh no wrong... its almost fourth on the first... ahhhrrg...

[666TheGuitarist666]

he's a god!

Or a wizard I don't really know.

[Inderpoldrums]

go hagrid! go hagrid!

[musik102]

Of course, he's not playing an acoustic guitar! It's plugged in! If he could achieve this on a genuine acoustic instrument that would be something!

[DrBromiAndufEwd]

@musik102 If you were standing next to him, plugged in or not, that song sounds exactly like it does here. It has nothing to do with the electronics.

[mcmanustony]

@musik102

no of course it's not an acoustic guitar. clearly it's a lawnmower.

[henagis]

even if he beats the crap out of a guitar he still manages to get an awesome melody out of it...

[alkinbones]

hagrid owns this guitar.... he's awesome!

[WarriorOfTheHeavens]

I wonder how many guitar he has broken?

[QuisPiss]

im ripped and the beginning literally scares me

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

@QuisPiss I saw the older video of this song when I was high out of my mind. It was a great introduction to Don.

[EGMvideo]

Afraid to dance...perhaps yes, but not to PLAY!

[Opiate1987]

the little lick at 1:57 is orgasmic!