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What's up everyone? And welcome to Sunday with Ola...
Maybe I should figure out what Sunday with Ola number it is before I start recording.
I think it's 82.
Welcome.
This week's Sunday with Ola was actually in jeopardy.
Yesterday I was laying sick at home in bed
and I was also feeling sick this morning, and you know...
Ooh, well, I guess I...
...maybe have to, like, play some FAQ instead on Sunday.
So people get something at least on Sunday, because I'm...
Anyways, no.
I decided no, Ola, no.
I took a shower, put in my contacts, and here we are.
I'm not 100%.
But that's OK, I'm gonna try and give you my 100%.
Great.
And also check out this new Solar guitar that I have here, it's a fan-fret.
Look, fanned fret, 7-string.
There's also a 6-string somewhere in the world.
No, it's in the other room actually.
We're just gonna head straight into the news.
Alright, so... it's been Easter
And the news have been...
Fairly shitty, I must say.
But I am scraping up.
How many cl-- fuck man, I've been clapping a lot today.
I have been scraping up a fair bit of bullshit from the news pages out there.
So we have something to watch at least.
Just don't have too high hopes
in today's thing.
Wh-What is the thing? It's the news, yes.
Alright, so last on the ball, Ola Englund...
...found out that Kirk Hammett is releasing a solo EP.
Produced by Bob Rock.
Clappity clap.
The EP is gonna be called Portals, and...
The song that has been released for now is High Plains Drifter.
And I've been listening a little bit to this, and it's...
It's...
It's like all the slow parts of Metallica, basically.
You know, all the clean parts of Metallica.
It has a lot of orchestration, I like orchestrations a lot.
And it's... someti--
It's a little bit of a spaghetti western type of vibe to the music, which I think is...
You know, it's cool.
I mean, seeing that Kirk Hammett is a heavy movie fan
it wouldn't surprise me if he's a big fan of old spaghetti western music and films.
So, you can definitely hear that in this new little piece of his.
Exciting, it's Kirk Hammett, everyone.
Next piece of news is that Dream Theater's James LaBrie is pretty stoked
he and Mike Portnoy are friends again.
Now, personally I did not know that they were not friends.
Uh... I'm not sure exactly what has happened.
But let's read into this.
So, it started with Mike Portnoy actually going to a Dream Theater show.
And James has this to say.
"What happened was my manager, this is like 2 hours before the show...
"The thing is what was sad about that whole duration where Mike and I didn't see eye to eye
"is that when Dream Theater started, Images And Words and Awake, Mike and I were best friends
"way back, and then we started to fall apart for several reasons.
"It's just that we started to have problems with one another."
I wonder if the reason why they weren't friends anymore was the--
Uh... About that Mike Portnoy...
Portnoy comment on LaBrie's singing thing.
That he did a couple of years back on a radio show.
OK, Mike Portnoy calls James LaBrie's vocals annoying.
Alright, so I think it was this.
It might have been for this, actually.
I don't wanna stir up any drama or something.
[Video] Like Dream Theater without the annoying vocals, it's perfect.
OK, I think that was when he's trying to explain... was it...?
Adrenaline Mob.
So this was when Mike Portnoy described Liquid Tension Experiment.
As being Dream Theater without the annoying vocals.
There's a lot of ways you can translate this wording.
Annoying vocals as if... you know...
Not actually James LaBrie's annoying vocals
More like just having vocals.
So... I mean...
Uh... I don't know.
Maybe that was the problem they had between each other.
James said "You know what? Enough is enough.
"There's enough hate in this world, there's enough frickin' negativity in this world...
"If Mike wants to come and see me, and make amends, then I should be receptive.
And I got in touch, and John Petrucci was also there
"So he said 'Mike wants to know if he can come and say to you.
"And I just said 'You know what? Yeah. Let him know, for sure."
"We chatted, we had a good, long discussion, we made up
"and gave each other a hug, and did a picture together.
There you go, that's the way to do it right now.
And I agree, there's definitely too much negativity in the world
for you to be dragging along such shit from the past, I mean...
If you can make amends...
Do it, man, big on James LaBrie right there.
The annoying vocalist of Dream Theater.
I personally love James LaBrie and his vocals, just saying.
Let's just move on to the next piece of news.
And that is Alissa White-Gluz right here
singer of Arch Enemy.
She's saying... concerned that modern music is less focused on the quality of songwriting.
Yes.
"There's a little bit of concern on my end.
"Not to say that modern music isn't fantastic, because it is."
Nice save.
It's more that the consumption of music is less focused on the quality of the songwriting
and the musicianship, and the lyrics.
And is a little bit more focused on the virality of the song
and made for a very short attention span, well...
That's exactly what has happened today.
It's not just the music, man.
It's for series and movies, and it's everything that we people consume.
That's just how people consume stuff on their free time today.
They go to TikTok and YouTube and just scroll.
Scroll through shit basically.
There's always gonna be people that are really into music.
And you know, listens to music in a healthy manner.
You can't deny that this is where we're going right now,
Where people are just consuming music in a different way.
I mean, shorter songs, whatever...
More virility as she...
Virility? Isn't that... you know...
This?
Isn't that virility? I don't know.
No, but virality of the song.
I completely agree with Alissa.
Because you know, this is... I mean, this is not news.
This has happened for the past 10 to 15 years, I guess, and...
You know, it's going faster and faster
with how, you know, technology gets faster
and more people will start using TikTok and YouTube Shorts or whatever, it's just...
People want to be fed so fast.
So yes, I think there's a legit concern in this.
But I still don't think that music has to change anyways.
I mean, there's always gonna be the people that want a specific type of genre
a specific type of song, and a specific type of format of music.
It's just that it's gonna be a bit more divided, I think.
Metal is still holding strong in the fort, I must say.
Fans are still buying albums, they listen to full albums, and not singles, and...
You know, there's just...
It's just... we're clinging on...
...to music, man, and the love for music.
How about that? Shit.
You've just gotta love metal people, man.
So, speaking about metal.
Lamb of God is out on tour with Trivium... who else?
Uh... InFlames, yes.
And Randy Blythe got sick with covid, so he can't sing.
He's not allowed to sing.
How do Lamb of God solve this? Well, they invite singers to the songs with them.
So, Anders Fridén of InFlames, Matt Heafy of Trivium
And also Mark Hunter of Chimaira
stepped up and filled in for Randy Blythe live, so...
So, right here we're checking out Mark Hunter
doing Walk With Me In Hell.
Here's Anders.
Sounds good to me, man... Ok, where's Matt?
I think the coolest part about this is that Matt is doing clean vocals on Lamb of God.
How about that?
He has the lyrics on the floor, that you can see him look down, that's completely fine.
I mean, don't expect other singers to just know the lyrics by heart.
Not even the original singers can remember the lyrics sometimes, just saying.
So, it's Lamb of God with clean vocals... Mmh.
Actually not that bad, I must say, it sounds...
Sounds good, man.
But I also like how the metal community steps up like this
you know, help each other out to be able to continue on the tour.
And you know, bring metal to the people, man, I mean...
What other genres would you see this happening in?
Huh?
Not too many.
Clap.
I mean, we all know that Jim Carrey is a huge fan of Cannibal Corpse.
You know, since Ace Ventura.
And Cannibal Corpse was in the movie.
I'm not sure if Jim Carrey is an actual fan, but you know, he was up there...
It was cool, it was a cool moment... anyways...
There's an interview now with Jim Carrey where he explains...
how he reacted first time he heard one of my favorite bands, Pantera.
Let's go, we wanna hear this.
[Interviewer] ...had a Cannibal Corpse moment in it--
[Jim] First time I ever heard Pantera, I was driving out of San Diego to do a concert
and me and my manager, Jimmy Miller at the time
we put Pantera on...
- Pantera. - And I had never heard anything like it.
[Jim] And it hit me on such a level of, like, extreme stimulation....
That I just started laughing uncontrollably.
The whole-- for the entire track.
[Jim] Like this, like nervously laughing, like what is happening right now....
- He was not ready. - Then we went to check in the hotel.
And the guys behind us in the line checking into the hotel were Pantera.
- What? - Was Dimebag Darrell there? The guitar player.
We turned around, we went like 'Are you kidding me?'.
Dude, I bet that it's also really cool for Pantera to be behind Jim Carrey
in a line at the check-in, how cool is that?
Anyways, Jim Carrey, man.
I don't know if that was a legit, honest reaction
to Pantera, or if he liked it, he didn't really say.
He just said that that was his reaction.
I like Jim Carrey, man, he was the shit during the 90s.
And eventually now he's more of a...
I think he became way more spiritual.
And he has this spiritual aura around him, and...
A little weird maybe, but you know...
I really like him.
Alright, Gibson partners with Gene Simmons for a new signature G2 Thunderbird bass.
That looks like this.
But we can't read anything about it, because then I have to subscribe to Guitar World.
Maybe... you know, because this is a new outlet...
Maybe I should fork out the 4 dollars per month or...
39 bucks per year.
I mean, there are other sources of news, I guess.
But uh...
I'm giving it some thought, OK?
But we're not gonna read anything about this today, let's just say that.
This is a new segment that we're doing that's called Guitar of the Week.
There's a lot of guitars in my room over there, and you know...
Eventually I'm gonna make a guitar vault video.
But a lot of these guitars, they don't get enough love, in my opinion.
So I thought, let's just do a guitar of the week.
Today we have a Fender case.
And I thought about bringing this one as the first guitar right there.
The Fender Evangelion telecaster.
This is funny, man, because I wanted one of these...
But they were only available in Japan.
Much like the Final Fantasy stratocaster that they have now.
It's also only available in Japan, so...
If you would want to get one here, it was always aftermarket.
And they were always very very expensive.
Because people buy 'em, and then they upcharge them.
And it's... yeah, scalping, basically.
So, I get a hold of a very special one.
If you saw the video already...
There is a video showing this, that it's the number 000.
This is the prototype for the Fender Evangelion guitar.
So, very special guitar, it's not even the first one, it's the zero one.
So, it's the absolute first one they made before they made the whole production line.
I mean, I'm a big fan of Evangelion, it's one of my favorite animes, I...
I had to have this guitar, and here it is.
And maybe... you know, I'm more of a fan of Unit number 1...
...in Evangelion, and this is from... I think it's from Unit number 2.
The orange, and Asuka one.
And Shinji, the guy...
He was piloting the Unit 01.
So...
Yeah, and you can look here, look at this backplate... Nerve.
000.
How cool is that?
Smells sorta weeby, that's good.
Alright, I'm gonna plug it in.
I figured we would take out the Iconic 5150
because it's just been sitting in its box waiting to be collected by Fender
but they never just f***ing showed up, I guess.
So, I just unboxed it again.
And if they ever need it again...
Let's just go.
OK, maybe I need to tune.
And these are Alumitones.
I think they're called Alumitone pickups.
Uh... they're very metallic-sounding.
OK, the neck pickup.
Uh... I don't know, I mean, the neck pickup...
Uh... it sorta resembles a single coil.
But as you can hear, it's not noisy as a single coil.
Like, usually single coils are very noisy, but this one is not.
Here's my foot.
Yeah man, so there it is, the guitar of the week.
The Fender Evangelion stratoca--
Telecaster, did I say stratocaster? It's a telecaster.
Yeah, man, look at that inlay.
That's so cool.
So there you go, that's the guitar of the week right there.
Back to SWOLA.
Alright, question of the day from Goat Surgeon, my beautiful member.
"Do you ever get jealous of how many subs gaming channels get compared to guitar channels?"
Legit good question.
This might have been something I would think a lot about maybe 8-10 years back.
When my channel was starting to grow a little bit.
I was checking the analytics of my channel a little bit more, and you know, kinda...
...delving into... why didn't this now work
and why aren't more people following my channel, and you know, a little bit...
You know, comparing...
...towards other channels, I mean, there's other guitar channels that I was comparing to.
Why did they have more subs and why do...
Just comparing myself to my peers out there.
And what I've learned throughout the years, and also as I've become older.
Because I mean, you know, 10 years ago I was 30.
And now 40, I... I think I'm more mature at 40.
And I think I have a little bit more knowledge and a little bit more insight of what I want.
You know, what's really important to me in my life.
So, I found out that the more you check into analytics
and compare yourself to others...
I think you lose focus a little bit of what you're actually doing.
I'm not doing the exact same thing as other people are.
Like, in gaming channels, for instance.
I mean, they get a lot of subscribers and views, because...
You know, that's a legit, awesome entertainment format right there.
I have to understand...
You know, I'm watching other guitar channels for instance, and see...
Why are they... why do they have more subscribers than me?
Well...
It's maybe because they're focusing on another niched audience, for instance.
Or a wider audience.
That's also something I have been thinking a lot about
is that I can probably get a broader audience
if I just broaden my channel a little bit
into other genres, like blues, and rock, or you know...
Whatever, man, there's a lot of things I can do if I want to have more subscribers.
But I think you lose focus a little bit
if you compare yourself to other channels.
I think it's way more important just to, you know...
Look into yourself a little bit
and concentrate on what you think might be good content for you and your channel.
And then I think ,eventually...
People will follow that.
It might not be at the same rate, or growth rate as other channels.
But who gives a shit, really?
You deliver one type of content to the audience
while others, you know, deliver other type of contents
to your followers, or the same audience.
There's still room for everyone in here, man.
Just saying.
So, for the past 8 to 10 years I've personally grown
in myself, obviously, and also...
I just pay less attention to other channels, because...
I don't want them to influence what I'm doing
so I try to kinda stay away from actually looking at too much content on YouTube.
You know, I just wanna make my shit, basically.
And not have others influence what I'm doing.
I've never really had a viral moment on my channel
which made my channel grow really fast.
It's always been like a short, small, and steady growth, like this.
I'm not out here to make viral videos or to broaden my views.
I mean, I'm niched towards the death metal and metal guitar player
And you know, that's my audience right there, and I want to keep it like that.
I might be old-fashioned, but I'm doing this for the long run.
You know, for the long game.
Good question, though, made me speak, speaking is good.
Alright, all my penis friends and vagina friends and in-between friends...
Thank you so much for watching Sunday with Ola 82.
Also, remember tomorrow there's a livestream of the Sunday with Ola contenders.
If you wanna be a part of the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge...
Download the drums in the description of this video.
You have about 1 week to make riffs, upload to youtube
and I might check you out in the next upcoming livestream
that's not tomorrow, it's one week after.
OK, thank you so much for tuning in.
I hope you have a great Sunday, OK?
Thank you, bye.