♪ The dog is on the floor ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Pix, how are you doing? ♪
♪ Hey-ey-yeah ♪
♪ Tired, little dog ♪
What's up everyone?
And welcome to SWOLA 77.
Can we try that again?
I have to have a white guitar pick to throw...
OK, this is big, you're gonna see it.
Welcome, everyone.
It's Sunday, 8 o'clock CET.
How are you guys doing?
I'm perfectly fine, the Pix is here...
The Pix... the dog, the Pix.
I've just recently bought this little bed for her.
I mean, Hundenbett, in German.
So she could be with me at all times underneath my desk.
And I think she likes it.
I don't know if you watch my second channel, Ola Englund number 2
but this past Friday...
You know, I made a video showing a new pickup for Solar Guitars.
The Duncan Solar +.
Obviously, like, the core pickup...
...of the Solar Guitars line has been the Duncan Solar.
Now there's a Duncan Solar +.
Which is a new Alnico VIII pickup, which is way hotter.
And it sounds like this...
You're probably not gonna notice a difference, because I'm using a shit ton of gain.
Just saying... new guitar.
Hello?
And new day.
New Sunday.
What is this guitar pick I'm using.
Player's Pick Podcast... what is this?
I don't know, but it's very...
It's very thin, I have no idea where it came from.
But I guess it's been in my little pick thing right here.
Alright, let's head on with the news, sorry.
So, first off with the news for today...
What day is it today?
The 13th of March maybe.
Is that Fender gives Guitar Center a piece of the '80s metal action
with exclusive Ferrari Red and neon green Player Stratocasters.
OK, OK, OK.
It's not uncommon that dealerships like this, they make a...
...a special,you know, purchasing from a guitar brand
and they make it a little bit exclusive for...
...you know, that dealership right there.
So, basically, Guitar Center.
In this case.
They probably bought a shit ton of these.
Just to have something exclusive.
And... you know, much like the Boogie Street Guitars with Washburn Guitars, for instance.
You know, the Boogie Street...
Southern Cross, for instance.
Hello? That was built for Boogie Street Guitars.
These become rarities sometimes.
Let's take a look at this, I personally think that these are bland looking.
And, you know, maybe they could have come up with something different, but...
Maybe that's just me and... you know...
Maybe I'm not that much into pastel colors like these.
And when I think about the '80s and early '90s
I think neon as, you know, being bright as...
You know, bright as f***.
Just like my...
Just like this guitar right here.
You know, this.
This guitar, that's a neon color for you right there.
Th-That... it just screams.
Oh... oh...
Oh no, no, no... I f***ed it up.
I f***ed it up, sorry guys.
You know, I do have wireless lavalier microphones
but they don't sound as good as the wired ones.
That's why I'm still using the wired one here, because...
You know, I'm just sitting down.
I have a cable going straight to the audio interface, it's just so...
...so convenient.
And the dog is still there.
Hello, dog.
It's impossible not to pet the dog.
Have you ever had a dog? No?
OK, well, you should try it out, it's f***ing amazing.
A 3rd Player Stratocaster, Ferrari Yellow model, is also available at the US retail giant
after an identical 6-string was released by UK retailer Andertons last month.
Oh, so it's... It was not exclusive, OK, great.
Next piece of news.
Still going with Fender.
They unveiled 2022 Custom Shop
Masterbuilt Prestige and limited edition annual collection models.
Where is the anime guitar?
OK, let's just start.
Greg Fessler Prestige Ghost--
I don't know why I read 'clown'...
Ghost 'clown' telecaster
Ghost Town telecaster
It goes to town.
Let's 'ghost' to town, everyone.
[Video] This really has the authentic ag--
[Ola] Uh... that looks...
[Video] My favorite tele body wood.
[Ola] ...kinda cool.
Alright, Dennis Galuszka Prestige Moto Jazzmaster.
Now this I like, look at that.
Holy shit that looks great.
All things pearloid, well...
Look at that thing.
That's just straight up pearloid all over the place.
Might be a little tacky.
Like, a tad tacky, but no, I like it.
Oh, Yuriy Shishkov Prestige Quilted '60s Stratocaster.
Ah... bare bones.
Looks fairly cool.
Jason Smith Prestige Electric Sea Gems Esquire.
OK, OK, uh...
Maybe not my first choice if I wanna spend 13,000 f***ing dollars on a guitar.
Just saying, but someone out there might be really happy.
I mean, these are gonna be collector's items, they only made one of these.
Uh... Ron Thorn Prestige Hawaiian Dream Resonator.
OK, a resonator guitar.
The Hawaiian Dream will set you back with an eye-watering 36,000 dollars.
Who has these kinds of money?
OK, Skeleton, now we're talking.
This guy is a metalhead.
Paul Waller Skeleton Telecaster.
21,000 dollars, holy shit.
Is that a real skeleton right there?
[Video] ...painter I discovered on Instagram.
[Ola] Of course, Instagram.
The base of all artists nowadays.
I think my favorite one was...
Was it this one? Maybe this one.
Yeah.
Just because of how tacky it is.
Slash says...
...he still gets self-conscious playing in guitar stores.
No shit.
I mean, playing in guitar stores is the worst thing ever.
I mean, you're sitting there...
...playing through stuff you've never played before.
You pick up a guitar from the wall.
It's not set up for you.
You play through a rig that's... that you've never played before.
And you sit there and you try to make something sound good.
It's absolutely horrible.
So...
I can definitely see myself as Slash in this case.
You're also surrounded by a guitar store.
Full of guitar players that are better than you.
Of course it's gonna be terrible.
He says...
"Guitar stores can be dangerous" from a financial point of view.
Ah...
I did not know this.
"You go in looking for one thing," he says, "and then you see something else"
"that you don't necessarily need, but you feel you have to have it..."
"and you end up buying it."
Well, that's how it is when you're rich, you know?
But it makes a lot of sense, I have this feeling too.
Except that I actually don't purchase.
Gibson salutes Elvis Presley with 2 new signature acoustic guitars,
How many years since Elvis died?
1977, OK.
The SJ-200 is based on an acoustic that was given to Presley as a gift
at a recording session at RCA Studio in the mid '60s.
The King would go on to use the guitar extensively onstage
and later gifted it to his friend Marty Lacker at Graceland in 1976.
One year before his passing.
"Supposed passing".
Pasting?
Supposed passing.
Oh... he's still alive.
People are gonna eat that up... look at this.
Holy shit, that looks great.
You know, this makes me wonder.
How many signature guitars
of dead people are we gonna have in a couple of years?
Like...
I'm sorry, it might sound a little morbid to talk about this.
But I'm just thinking...
The guitar players that have been in our history.
That have been iconic.
That still has a signature guitar somewhere, I mean...
We have Fender and Jimi Hendrix, for instance.
And we have Elvis with Gibson.
Obviously... Les Paul.
Obviously that's Les Paul's signature guitar.
Believe it or not.
I mean, how many of these icons will stay...
...for the longest time?
I mean, we have Dean and Dimebag, which is...
...not gonna be a thing now, but they're gonna make something else.
Eddie Van Halen.
I'm just saying.
How many of these are gonna stick through the times?
It's gonna be interesting seeing.
Just speculating a little bit.
But then again, is Elvis really dead?
I think he's really dead.
Rest in peace.
Yvette Young...
Incredible guitar player, by the way.
She's saying...
"I never really felt like I got good on guitar."
"The way I spend my time is still very much based around improving."
Holy shit.
That's me right there.
That exact feeling is me.
You know, guitar playing is a constant process of you learning more and more.
Or becoming better, or trying to become better, so...
I don't think Yvette is alone in this.
I'm in on this too.
You know, I don't really spend time improving.
That's the difference between us 2.
I just sit here and do my shit, and...
You know, I write to...
I write songs with the abilities that I have.
I mean, if I come to a solo, and I wanna write an impressive solo...
You know, I try to improve so I can play the solo.
That's one thing.
But I don't constantly practice.
But I have a feeling that people that are like this...
You know, they feel that they're not good enough on guitar
they're probably really really f***ing great.
But everyone knows their shortcomings.
It's just that they don't show it to people.
So, a little good discussion there, and uh...
Yvette Young, incredible guitar player.
Some metal news.
Firespawn plotting an LG Petrov tribute EP with guest vocalists.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Lars-Göran Petrov's death.
The singer of Entombed.
And Firespawn, obviously.
I saw the crowdfunding he did.
And I was like 'Oh shit, he has cancer?'
Holy shit... and then...
It went like this, man, and he passed away.
Fucking cancer, man.
In my opinion, one of the more iconic death metal singers of our time.
He had his own voice that no one can replicate.
And obviously everything he did with Entombed was just legendary, man.
And you know, makes me...
Makes me a proud Swede.
Entombed makes me feel like, you know, I'm very proud
about the metal scene
in Stockholm, and in Sweden, so...
Very proud about Entombed and LG Petrov.
Rest in peace.
Let's watch something, OK.
Watch: Exodus joined live by Robb Flynn and ex-guitarist Rick Hunolt.
They're playing A Lesson In Violence.
F*** yeah.
Just seeing this pit right here makes me really happy.
You know, I haven't been to a show in a good while.
I really wanna go to a show now, seeing this.
Exodus, man, that's Gary Holt.
He does not like the Kardashians.
Gojira Mario Duplantier shares new drum solo Movement.
One of the best guit--
One of the best guitar drummers of our time.
No, one of the best drummers in metal right now, in my opinion.
Have you seen these drums?
I haven't touched these drums in like 3 weeks.
I've just had a shit ton to do, and you know...
Elden Ring, man, Elden Ring.
Elden Ring also needs practice, you know?
And right now I'm playing more Elden Ring than drums.
That's the w--
stupidest f***ing excuse ever.
But uh...
There's just been other things, you know?
I mean, how good is this guy?
F***, man.
You know, he reminds me th--
You know, Mario and Joe of Gojira
reminds me a lot about Dimebag and Vinnie.
But in their own way, you know?
Obviously they don't sound the same.
But they still have that brother groove going.
You can't really compare 'em.
Because Pantera versus Gojira is com--
A completely different beast.
You know, I just get the same vibe.
You know, f***ing hell.
Brothers in metal.
There has been new music coming this week.
Hello?
New Septicflesh, hello? Where is it?
Why am i saying 'Hello'?
Well, Septicflesh has released a new single
called Hierophant, which is almost like 'elephant'
but it's a 'Hiero', 'Hierophant'.
I don't know what...
What does that mean?
Hierophant...
Is that an animal?
"utställare av heliga ting"
is a person who bring religious congregants
into the presence of that which is deemed holy.
Ooh shit, OK, it's a word.
Speticflesh is a band that has really grown on me
for the past couple of years.
I think it was when Krimh joined the band
that I started listening to them, and, like... holy shit.
I missed out on a lot of things.
Ugh.
Oh, it's just disgusting, man.
It's a disgusting song.
Ugh.
I feel the sweat f***ing ugh.
Ugh.
You know, imagine go and see this on a show right now, f***.
And then last but not least.
Meshuggah released yet another single from their upcoming album.
Immutable.
"The title fits perfectly for where we are as a band."
"We're older now. Most of us are in our fifties"
"and we've settled into who we are."
"Even though we've been experimenting all along"
"I also think we've been the same since day one."
"The way we approach things and why we still make new albums"
"and why we still sounds the way we do.
"It's Immutable."
OK.
"Humanity is immutable too." Oh...
Oh shit, well, calm down.
Calm down, shit.
The single is called 'Light The Shortening Fuse'.
And it's heavy as f*** obviously.
It's the new Meshuggah, just...
Balls-on, f***ing heavy as shit.
You know, something that strikes me is that this sounds fairly up-tuned.
For Meshuggah.
What is this in? What key?
Is this E or B?
OK, it's B sh-- B flat, basically.
Seven string, maybe?
I'm just trying to analyze here.
Uh... I remember the guys were talking about going from 29" 8-string guitars
going to 27" again.
27" 8-strings.
Maybe they're moving back.
You know, can't go too low anymore, man.
You have to go up.
Duh-nah nah-now
Just saying, a small little side-note.
Oh.
They went down, I heard it, let's go back.
Buh-duh.
What's that?
A flat?
OK, cool.
OK, last but not least.
5-year-old prodigy covers classic Green Day song on every instrument.
OK...
[Video] ...my little project.
[Video] Guitar...
[Ola] Are y-- is he really sitting with Logic at 5 years old? What?
He sounds like me when I was 30 years old trying to navigate Logic.
And he's f***ing 5.
He has one of these Ibanez... small Ibanez guitars too.
That's so cool.
Recording, arranging, effects
editing, and all performance, and guitars, and drums by this 5-year-old.
F***ing hell.
What?
Isn't it f***ed up when a...
You know, we live in a world where a 5-year-old...
...produces and records better content than me.
Of 40 years old.
That's so f***ing weird.
And that, my friends, was the news.
And that was Sunday with Ola for you right there.
Last week's livestream of the Sunday With Ola Riff Challenge went so-so.
Because they changed out the windows on that side of the office, so...
I have to tear everything down
on that side, so I couldn't do a livestream, but...
Tomorrow, I promise
I will make a livestream for the Sunday with Ola contenders.
If you wanna be a part of the Sunday with Ola contenders
you can download the drums in this video
for the intro that I was playing in the intro.
And you can make your own riffs, and I'll check you out next Monday, OK? So...
Tomorrow I'm gonna check out the contributions from last week's Sunday with Ola.
And with that said...
I mean, the dog hasn't done shit today, are you OK?
Long day today.
I'm so hap-- shit, I can't film that way.
There's some secret guitars over there, I can't...
That's why you're only seeing this side of the...
...the Sunday with Ola today.
There's secret guitars standing over there, I can't show them.
Anyways, guys...
I'm so happy I got a dog again.
I mean, look at this thing.
Look at this cuddly face right there...
What?
Look at that.
Huh?
Cutest dog.
Anyways, guys.
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you have a great Sunday.
And I'll see you guys tomorrow, OK?
Good, thank you.