Don Ross - How To Eat An Avalanche (2021)

Join my Patreon for advance access to these videos, free guitar tablatures, access to my Don Ross Guitar Academy, and a host of other goodies! Guitar tablature available here: Here’s a new video of my tune “How to Eat an Avalanche,“ originally recorded as the first tune on the very first CandyRat Records release MUSIC FOR VACUUMING in 2005. I wrote this one during a windstorm in an “agriturismo“ hotel in rural Tuscany, Italy. The tune’s silly title has an equally silly story behind it. When I was in high school, I hung out with a bunch of creative nerds, and we all were hooked on nonsense like MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS. Basically, the more absurd things were the better. I had just started playing the occasional live concert (at age 15) and I had bought a label making kit for making posters. Essentially, one would make a rubber stamp with rubber movable type letters. One