SWOLA199 - NO REGRETS HAMMETT, JERRY CANTRELL SINGLE, STEPHEN CARPENTER AFRAID OF FLYING, STRINGS

[@LostTheEcho]

These SWOLA’s are going to start hitting different for me. Starting chemo tomorrow and each Sunday will be a milestone and reminder of how far I’ve come kicking cancers ass. Glad to be a part of such a great community with you all 🤘🏼

[@OlaEnglund]

All the best to you

[@TK-we9zt]

Stay strong; i have family going through that now and just take it one day at a time 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@marcosgrau5560]

You've got this! 🤘🏽😊✨️

[@jeffreybonaventure6981]

Fuck that cancer up man and we’ll all be watching SWOLA with you every Sunday!!

[@chrisgoudy1954]

Good thoughts your way and stay strong.

[@metalheadhobo1]

I'll be a dad during the next Sunday with Ola. Wild to think. Excited for SWOLA 200!

[@crock2434]

Welcome to fatherhood...pack all your gear in boxes...you wont be having any free time for the next 6-18 years

[@metalheadhobo1]

@crock2434 lol thank you! I'll start packing ASAP

[@SerienChiller86]

Stephen Carpenter is not afraid of flying, he's afraid someone in the plane shows him the curvature of the earth

[@lorenzovannini]

@@SerienChiller86 fr 💀

[@thinkingofvenice]

Steph Carpenter is an antivaxxer, and COULDNT fly… Dude’s been flying for what, 20? 30 years? 😂

[@sixthgatebass]

you cant see it though

[@iLLuzion1st]

@@thinkingofvenice you don't need a mystery sauce to fly tho

[@rexcassidy]

@@thinkingofvenicehe’s also a flat earther.

[@noah211089]

The 199th time sitting on the toilet with a cup of coffee thinking: "good fucking morning Ola!"

[@javierhi_guitar5598]

Tha news, what about on Gojira playing at the Olímpics? Hell yeah

[@alanerpington5698]

He recorded this SWOLA before the opening ceremony. It'll be on next week's, presumably.

[@modernroyaljams]

It would be cool to get Jerry on Coffee with Ola.

[@shanePcolson]

Holy shit please Ola that would be awesome

[@Metalaxe5150]

The outro of floods is a very haunting play of notes,nice to listen to it really loud

[@jamesosterberg2510]

I realised I've been following SWOLA's since the 1st episode !! ( and the channel way before that ...!!!) We all love you Ola !!

[@gordonstarship]

SWOLA fan. The new Jerry Cantrell song rocks! Looking forward to Swola199

[@devosce]

You gave me the motivation to learn that pantera outro thank you !

[@janneranta7373]

Kirk's talking about the riffs on Ride the Lightning. And yes, Cantrell's new song is excellent.

[@paulbarks1473]

Elixir have been the best strings I've used over the years. Feel great and last forever

[@JoeBaermann]

Polyweb?

[@paulbarks1473]

@@JoeBaermann Nanoweb usually

[@JoeBaermann]

@@paulbarks1473 Just asking since I want to try coated string, heard that polyweb should have the best durability out of those two.

[@paulbarks1473]

@JoeBaermann the difference in coating is only supposed to affect the tone and feel. Nanoweb are the brightest. Try some polyweb out and see how you get on, they are expensive but they should last a lot longer than normal strings

[@rapidthoughts3169]

I just saw Jerry Cantrell last night 🤘

[@gabrielcarpenter6770]

Love that outro on Floods so beautiful....❤❤❤

[@seanplotkin6854]

Made me tear up a lil hearing floods again. Thanks for everything you do!! I'll keep watching for another 200 episodes

[@Mike-vu7em]

I like the on air sign that’s very creative very cool

[@StephenDuros]

I was cracking up when you went to TMZ news lol!! More TMZ news next time please!! Haha too funny

[@johngallagher7884]

Yes, Jerry sounds awesome. Great sound 🎉

[@JoesStyle]

Like your FALLOUT shirt OLA! Rock On!

[@johngallagher7884]

Yes the solo to floods is majestic 🎉 amen

[@Liofigsguitar]

What a beautiful puppy! Wish you a very long friendship.

[@Boomheyyou]

I love string, joy, strings that’s what I’ve been using for a while

[@rd_rae]

Appreciate your efforts Ola for providing the regular Sunday morning entertainment. Nr. 200 might be the first for which I get up early to join the premier 😅

[@kiplukewhitehead8522]

We love you man, you're our brother Ola. This channel, always a pleasure 👌☀️🙌

[@rafaelalonso3199]

200 yeah! Next Sunday I’ll try to be there early and catch the moment! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@TheShrike616]

It was really cool seeing you at FGC. Thanks for all the advice you gave us.

[@dirktucker77]

Saw Jerry play last night. He opened for Bush. Jerry is 😎

[@anticop76]

Very Nevermore esq intro. love it!

[@bobilly]

The riffs Kirk wrote that he carried over from Exodus are on Trapped Under Ice and Creeping Death, both from Ride the Lightning

[@PingeMusic]

thanks for the video as always Be safe and skilful. Pinge

[@MashaT22]

Ola, please try D’addario XT and XS. Both are coated with the same thing, but they apply the coating in two ways. The XT feels more like a naked string because they coat the outer metal before wrapping it over the inner core. The XS have a slightly smoother feel because they apply the coating on the metal after wrapping over the inner core is completed - but it’s a slight smoothness and not like Elixirs that are way too slick IMHO. I have a feeling you’d really like the XS best, but please try and compare both. I like XS for electric and XT for acoustic. Btw, NYXL are the identical strings as XT and XS - meaning the coating is applied on top of NYXL for the XT and XS. If you like NYXL, give these two other coated strings a shot! Can’t wait for SWOLA 200! I’ve marked my calendar! 🗓️🤘🏻🎸😎

[@thomasmoore1003]

I use the D'Addario on my acoustic and the feel smooth and definitely last much longer than non coated strings

[@bjornleifeld4442]

Hybrid Slinkys are the all over Strings to Go with. Hell yeah Triple Pack on Amazon 17€ by the way

[@jaycswift4751]

This is the best way to start my Sunday!

[@6oundStudio]

thanks a lot for doing these shows Ola! you're the best!

[@viktorblack2792]

I am using Elixir string since I started to play guitar some 12 years ago... still love 'em.

[@VRCM_Skywarn_XUSA]

Intro Hits So Hard, I got SwOlan Earlobes... I could listen, to that all day. 🤯👂00:03-01:13 - That git fiddle, does it come w/ green/orange sparklies & a squirrel going freakin nuts. 🔥🤸 🥜 🐿️🔥

[@xboxnissan]

Another great SWOLA, looking forward to 200 :)

[@turppa4416]

Kill 'em All was already fully composed when Hammett joined so logically the riffs only appeared on later albums.

[@GregMerritt-ws8tq]

You're right. We didn't hear the mistakes at all. We rarely do.

[@soapfoam]

Thick chunky groove and good harmony after. Slick intro.

[@tonyenger431]

ALBUM OF THE WEEK! New summoning the litch 🎉🎉

[@carlosalfaro1777]

I like the lesson !! Thanks!

[@nevioberki9894]

what a sickass guitar intro....love it!

[@nathanbolen7624]

lol no regerts Hammett, sorry had to do it. Another great SWOLA thank you @OlaEnglund. Im going to try and submit a riff challenge soon.

[@dooley9621]

Can't wait for next week, thanks man

[@apathtrampledbydeer8446]

Never a Sunday without Ola! I hope your fear of flying Subcides, I for one love turbulence, but then again I might have a slight deathwish. LoG and Mastodon are great, so is AiC with Jerry Cantrell(or JC solo) singing.

[@thomasbaldiscola4671]

HAPPY SWOLA!! I'm headed to the Ashes of Leviathan Tour next Sunday! "Ashes Of The Wake" is one of my fav albums! LOG RULES!!

[@kas14244]

About time I get credit!

[@harolddeschenes4640]

Just like Hetfield the RIFF master there's Ola the SUNDAY RIFF master!!!

[@Pazuzu-]

Ola is the best player on the thumbnail by far.

[@clowncorpse7230]

The intro song is awesome I like the Nevermore vibes🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@chris_2714]

LoG and Mastodon are also touring Canada, I have tickets to see them in a few weeks 😉

[@drewwebsteraudio]

Elixir have Polyweb (original coating), Nanoweb (next iteration, thinner coating), and Optiweb (newest and thinnest coating). Definitely give Optiweb a try. That’s my favorite. Very bright, I can’t personally feel the coating, and you still get the benefit of them lasting longer

[@fernandoramoa7079]

dude you have the sickest metal room. l gotta get that db meter asap

[@BaurRavenblack]

Elixir strings were recommended to me almost 20 years ago and I couldn't turn to any other strings if my life depended on it. I can fully confirm that where the coating gives in and rips after a while of heavy playing, they do get "hairy", but that doesn't affect my experience at all. These strings also aren't among the cheapest out there, but they definitely are among the very best.

[@BaurRavenblack]

I should also mention that during these 20 years I've only had 9 packs of Elixir strings, and getting them hairy isn't as easy as you may think.

[@mickloh]

I borrowed a chug pedal from a friend and it does a great job as a preamp into my tube heads power amp. 👌

[@ricopaxton]

You seem to be a happy Ola, good to see ❤

[@catalyzed8457]

I love the elixir optiweb strings, they’re coated and last for months but feel and sound like Uncoated to me.

[@iwannarockon2010]

Lots of belching and kickass tunes 🤘

[@larrymartins3014]

Thank you so much for all the kind words.

[@karce1981]

Love your stuff Ola. Please will me that amazing Dean V in the background, or whenever you're tired of it 😀😀😀.

[@CROm3dia]

Gah I wish I could afford one of your guitars . There sick. Long time fan man love what your channel.

[@descent1331]

I'm going to see this tour this coming Sun. Kerry King is opening for them.

[@ZeeEm1991Gr]

I've only tried coated strings once (the D'Addario EXPs). Boy, did I miss that new string zingyness, and they felt sticky, AND they already sounded dead within a week! Never again! I wish I could afford the whole shebang with Freak Guitar Camp. Must be a nice experience.

[@jamesnorton7601]

That's how you open up a Sunday mourning Ola. Bringing the riffage

[@flapjack413]

Stephen Carpenter is afraid of flying because it will make it harder for him to keep believing the earth is flat. 🤣 Kidding, sorta, lol. I personally really love flying, I find it very relaxing, but I do understand why some people are afraid of it. I was until around 2007, when my dad moved down to FL, and I had to get over it so I could go visit him. I was in the airport bathroom throwing up before my first flight, but once I got on the plane, and kinda surrendered myself to the situation, my feelings quickly changed. I look forward to flying now!

[@Marko_74]

That new a axe looks wicked 🤘🏻

[@jarikoskenniska299]

Like the Flood outro!

[@mylogify]

Niceeee lesson Ola!!!

[@casperjakobsen423]

As for the Kirk Hammett thing. Kill em All was done when Kirk joined the band. But there is some riffs on Ride The Lightning that Exodus also uses

[@AquaticBaboon]

I use the thinner coating Elixirs on my acoustics but wasn't crazy about them on the electrics. On the acoustic the coating really mutes the noise as you change position on the wound strings which is less distracting.

[@Ryan_Messenger]

D'addario for me, Drop C 10-52 on 25.5" scale with a floyd. I used 9-46 for a while but the strings didn't have enough tension for heavy down picking. 10-52 fixed that, big time. They're also on sale, I got 10 packs for $38.50 USD. I know Accountant Ola would like to hear that.

[@russellzauner]

Try taped strings. Nylon is transparent to magnetic fields, so the sound is all core dependent - they don't sound dull like flatwound strings like people think. Bonus, they are super super fast, like someone oiled the strings, like playing buttered butter. I have a set of labella white gold tapes on a bass and they sound just like any other string except because of the tapes they're slightly lighter gauge in sound/tone but not much; it doesn't make it weak sounding at all but in fact a little beefier. The downside: a 25 buck set of bass strings just became a 60 buck set, and that's only 4 strings; I also have 5 and 6 string basses and will have to build sets for them, for once I have to consider which bass I'm putting taped strings on when I decide what strings to put on them instead of just putting the same ones on p much all of them - expensive, but they will last nearly forever and the tone never changes/strings never corrode/oxidize.

[@nofagem]

I am using most of the time Elixir strings - the type "Optiweb" has the regular feeling. I think you tried the "Nanoweb" coating, which is the hairy-type. I have a relatively lot of guitars (12 electric guitars - 7 of them are Solar guitars ;) ), and have to deal with the cost of new strings. Unfortunately I have alien sweats, so one set of regular strings (f.e. Ernie Ball) lasts only one concert. For studio sessions I am using only regular strings, one set / song (in full analog situations we are hearing the difference between regular and coating strings). Except those occasions, the "home guitar playing" would be cost one set / week. And the price for a regular Ernie Ball is 2/3 of an Elixir Optiweb, there is not much difference, and one set of Elixir strings lasts for me 4-5 months. And besides I am very picky with the condition of the strings - regular strings after one week is unplayable for me, there isn't any shining, the sound is terribly blunt. So at home I am ended up only with Elixir Optiweb strings.

[@jessehutchings]

Commenting after the premier lol

[@napoleonibanezjrvlog]

fucking love and hate your videos man! love it cause theres so much info on rigs, guitars, amps, bands and shit.. hate it cause can't really have any of your guitars not even the cheap S by Solar ones here in our country.. top bad.. still got a lot of support for you man 🤘😈

[@stefanbaronkordecki4236]

Hey Ola, on the subject of coated strings, not sure if you’ve tried the Ernie Ball coated ones. I’ve been using them for years now and love them, they’re great. No sprouting hairs, the coating doesn’t break down like some other brands and they last way longer than standard strings, I haven’t broken a string in literally years. Worth a try 👍🏼

[@Vonliderhof]

No mention of Gojira opening the Olympics?

[@thomascrumley6234]

I said it before Jim Dunlop are my favorite if I had the money I'd send them to you they're not coded but the break-in time in the field is amazing

[@dannohite576]

Hammett joined Metallica when kill em all was done (all the music was already written) he just had to redo the solos. His exodus riffs were on ride the lightning. "Die by my hand" was an exodus song, never recorded because kirk used the main riff & chorus on creeping death. Which ended up being a huge part of metallica's live show. Needless to say, exodus was pissed!

[@tommilitello198]

He was one of the people that started exodus so they had nothing to be pissed about,was his band lol

[@АртёмСалахетдинов-ь9в]

You're a great guitarist Ola! I enjoy your albums more than Pantera's or John Petrucci's. (Although I like them too)

[@jfo3000]

Ola's writing is second to none!

[@Michael-zt8rk]

The first five seconfs of this video is the funniest thing ive ever seen 😂😂😂

[@jimwguitar3002]

D'addario coated strings are the best feeling in my opinion

[@Rotkapp]

Elixir Strings with coating got really good over the Years. They don't rub off as easy as they were years ago. Only where you pick it rubs the coating open.

[@vorpalblades]

Coated DR have been better in my experience.

[@beh3892]

Having tried multiple sets I settled for Elixir Optiweb Light-Heavy. I'd love to learn your take on those.

[@Boomheyyou]

I love string, joy, strings that’s what I’ve been using starting this year?

[@bruno.batista.guitar]

Hey Ola, you should try Ernie Ball coated titanium and paradigm, I think they're the best for sound and feel and last for years. Elixir nanoweb are good but I find they sound more scooped. Cheers

[@alecse5478]

agree, it will be my next try too, cause I've always used EB slinkies

[@EisGlockner]

As viewer since the early days, i am extremely hyped for SWOLA200! But honestly. Dude! Where did the time go?

[@wadeburgan1574]

Elixir strings are my favorite on electric and acoustic. I've never noticed the issue that you mentioned. I do notice that they last much longer. Hopefully, they will work out for you since you've got so many guitars to restring.

[@Coffeekupsandguitars]

On Elixir strings. I've been playing them for about 6ish years now and they've definitely changed a lot during that time. Around 2015ish I felt they were peak because they remained lively for a long time (I'm talking like a month of regular play) since the pandemic though the coating they use feels a little less...premium? I don't know how to word that lol it's not as nice anymore. That all being said I still think they're the best strings for me. If you want to try them again, I recommend the optiweb coating; those sound and feel the best to me. This is all my personal experience though, results may vary.

[@SpiritualOnslaught]

good call on the 9 to 46 gauge set of strings, that's my set, it gives me just that little bit more of bottom end stability that the 9 to 42's fails to deliver, since you use em, you know what I mean I'm sure. \m/

[@SmokeWasTaken43]

I'd love to see what you think of D'addario XS coated strings and the Elyxir Nanoweb coated strings, I bounce between both and really enjoy them. Awesome video as usual Ola, you're an inspiration with every video! Love from the UK (ALSO PLEASE COME TO THE UK!)

[@florisbackx1744]

I always use coated strings because if I don't the corrode really quickly. I believe it has something to do with the level of acidity your fingers emit while playing.

[@rynoriffs1984]

lets go for 200! ❤🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@sattercaster1]

I've been using slinky's for nearly 40yrs. I worked in a music store for a few years, and tried everything, but I haven't found anything I like better.

[@scottbogfoot]

Did they always have the shiny packages? 😊cheers!

[@metalzonemt-2]

Creeping Death "die by my hand" riff is from Exodus. And I think there's a riff on "Trapped Under Ice" that is also from Exodus.

[@Ottophil]

@DanielHarmsironically those youtubers steal all their content and contribute nothing of value to society like ola does

[@zac88anderson]

​​@DanielHarms Kerry king said their attitude and stage persona was all taken from Dave.

[@marct138]

Impaler

[@highonsleep4219]

​ 1. Kirk bringing his own riffs that were used on an Exodus demo to Metallica is not stealing 2. Do you even know how music works? Riffs are bound to be similar, there's a limited amount of notes and chords you can play, especially in the 80s when people didn't tweak tunings as much. Only songs where they actually "stole" something was on the first 2 albums, from Dave and that Lynyrd Skynyrd riff. 3. Every band has riffs that sound like somebody elses, and it doesn't really matter.

[@oiuqreofnqoiruegnqerg]

@DanielHarms bull shit why aren't there any court cases against metallica then? In a country that will sue you for anything?

[@golgothaassassin5035]

I use to love to fly.....

[@vrtentis]

Just saw the lamb of god and mastodon tour in Jacksonville Florida and it’s was fantastic! Hotter than balls! Even when the wind would blow a little it was like satan farting on your face. Some girl also got mad as hell at me cause she peed outside her car in the parking lot and I saw it….

[@michael4591]

That Solar with non-reversed headstock looks so damn good. I am in love! ❤

[@wurm90125]

I have been using Elixirs for the last 7 years. They have gotten progressively better. They do last. I feel the slickness on the plain strings but the wound strings feel no different.