Ewan Dobson - Time 2 [Official Version]

©Ewan Dobson

Official upload of "Time 2" by Ewan Dobson.

Recorded at Soundhole Studio on 50 Carroll Street in Toronto, Ontario (Dundas St. E / Broadview Ave) in September of 2010.
Camera: Ray Montford.

This was the final video filmed during the video sessions that followed the recording of Ewan Dobson II. Both the engineer and I started smoking again toward the end of those sessions — a one-month relapse brought on by the workload — before quitting again.

There was no marketing plan. No producer. No intent for "Time 2" to become anything special. The costumes were "poor man" costumes — simply part of having fun, not part of any branding strategy or promotional concept.

The success of "Time 2" was entirely decided by the audience. It emerged from their own interpretations of what they were seeing, and it went viral between 2011 and 2014.

When it was removed from its original YouTube upload location on April 1st, 2025, it had accumulated 34.8 million views.

Many of the reuploads appeared on websites that stripped the artist’s name from the content — turning it into a kind of meme — which means that a great deal of its viewers only knew it as the "Raiden guitar guy" or "trance guitar guy," and not the artist themself.

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#ewandobson #officialtime2 #tranceguitar #time2 #ЮэнДобсон

In its original location, this video had 34,839,073 views before being removed and reuploaded here. There were upwards of 30 million additional views if you count all the unauthorized uploads under the same, similar, or completely different titles on various video and media platforms across the internet in numerous countries.

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  / ii  
  / time-3-live  
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Special thanks to:

Ernie Ball Inc.
https://www.ernieball.com/

Godin Guitars
https://godinguitars.com/

AER - The Acoustic People
https://www.aer-music.de/

L.R. Baggs Inc.
https://www.lrbaggs.com/

Radial Engineering Ltd.
https://www.radialeng.com/

Jim Dunlop Guitar Products
https://www.jimdunlop.com/

Arobas Music (Maker of Guitar Pro Software)
https://www.guitar-pro.com/

The Eco-Crust Company (creator of the "Bird Pie")
  / ecocrust  

Bird Watcher's Digest
https://bwdmagazine.com/

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Official Ewan Dobson Website
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