Listening to the lyrics they have contradictory statements in them which remind me of a ditty I remember from my youth called 'LADIES and JELLYSPOONS' .....'Ladies & jellyspoons. I come before you to stand behind you . And to tell you about something which I know nothing about....Next Thursday, the day after Friday , there will be a ladies meeting for men only......Entrance is free- you can pay at the door....We'll give you a seat so you can sit on the floor.' ....Mattias' lyrics have that kind of format to them but they are much darker I feel. 'Strange Spasms in a Snowman suit' ?🤔😬🙄

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

Oh I get it.....'Hey idiot Evans, don't lose your temper with someone using MY records' 🤔🙄

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

Actually me trying to play the 'cold angry tough guy' on social media is a bloody joke isn't it ? ...Its like watching BAMBI trying to put on HOOLIGAN BOVVER BOOTS , trying to walk in them & falling flat on his face.🤔🙄🥴🤧

As I just turned 41, this speaks to me 😁

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

🥰

@svogender

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm 20 years to late for me..!! 😉🤘

the awkwardness of the vocal delivery reminds me of Confusion to the Enemy just a little bit....

That is the closest attempt ever to solve the question about meaning of life! Freaking excellent song btw! Cheers from Sweden! 💜

Glad i'm not the only one to hear a significant slice of Katatonia vibe in this one - get Jonas to sing it and you might chart!. Godt Nytår, IA, thanks for the tune as always!

Your TONE is awesome Mattias!

@5BILLIONplus1

Жыл бұрын

Truly massive.

che pompa!!!😊

Sum 41 got really djenty!

New year, new you ! Great tune ! I always forget that you play also drums so well !! I think this dark snowman will haunt my nightmares now.

tip top ! 👌🏻

There certainly is some magic in that old top hat!

Scales! 👌

Yes!

Ваши размеры и мелодии доставляют. С Новым годом!

@mad_drumstka

Жыл бұрын

Тоже люблю этого дядьку

Man this is powerful stuff and very impressive drumming !!! Keep bringing your visions to life brother !!!

Inspiring like always! Thank you for your music.

Ottima musica, grazie 🤟

It's another great music❤ Thanks‼️

So good! 🤘🏼

Brilliant maestro IA❤

This is awesome.

Melodic Meshuggah

Well this is freaking awesome ! 🤘

Great song and sound plus an excellent video editing ! Thanks for this gift. Happy New Year Mattias !

Fan vilket jävla musikaliskt geni du är Mattias, Jag blir lika fascinerad varje gång!

Man i like your style sir....

Exzellent, danke❣️🤗🔥🎸🎶✨

amazed 😍🤟

Now this is some serious gourmet shit right here

Michelin's mascot song! 🤣

👍👍👍👍😎🎶🎶🎵

Very Christmas core 🎉

Happy new year! Greetings from Ukraine!🎸

It's odd...and even at the same time.

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

Yepp, just keep quarter note pulse with the foot and clap the rhythm.

Super awesome but damn, this one is really tough to keep quarter note time on :)

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

I will make a short video for Friday explaining the rhythm. Had some messages regarding this so it seems you are not the only one struggling a bit with pulse and rhythm together. 👍

You truly are the best. First listening, it stucks in my head. How are you doing this? Teach me master...

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

Well, the "chorus" only says 41 so... keeping it simple over intense rhythm, I guess. 🤩

@madiimad

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh lol

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh Mattias, do you EVER lose your bearings on time ? It’s like you’ve got an Atomic Clock inside you or something. Most of the rest of us either suffer ‘twisted blood’ or getting tied up into a pretzel …lol

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 Hehe, well, I screw up like everyone else but have a pretty good inner clock that I can play on top of. Maybe drumming since an early age plus the absurd interest in (Indian) rhythms do help too.

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh I remember before you were into Indian Music on your Freak Guitar solo albums in 2001 & 2004 (separate from Freak Kitchen) you would play all the drums on the CDs too. Being a drummer must give you a really good time base that you can then apply to other instruments.....Not just guitar either...I even remember on the Freak Guitar albums you would do 'Mouth Drumming' ...lol...Where you would use your tongue to make sounds in your mouth by pretending the roof of the mouth was a snare drum, individual teeth as toms , & the uvula as a kind of 'boxing speedball' for a high hat cymbal....lol...I tried doing this once walking down to the Tesco hypermarket but I stopped because passers by looked at me as I sounded NUTS...lol

fucking swedes man!!! AMAZING PIECE!

Please, I'm trying to assimilate the solo of "When the River Calls" by evergrey did you record it?

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

I have no clue. 🤩 Did I?

If this song wasn't featuring a strange spasm in a snowman suit it would totally suck! But now that it does, it's totally another story! :) All kidding aside, I think it's Christer in that suit. Oh and yeah, Mattias sounds a bit like Jonas Renkse of Katatonia in this song...

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

Christer ?

@ThorsteinnK

Жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 from Freak Kitchen.

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

Yours truly in the suit. :)

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh 'yours truly in the suit' ? ..ok.

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

If folks pardon the pun why has it become fashionable to characterize people 'in suits' ? ....It starts to sound like a bloody Monisha Jaising fashion parade.🤔

Your video is really amazing. i really like your video. Can i talk with you mattias?

@anikdasdigital

Жыл бұрын

Can i talk with you?

Morgan Ågren on drums?

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

That would be nice, however it's me, I'm afraid. Tweaked and corrected to cover up all the tons of goofs. :)

@peterweins9017

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh That doesn't surprise me at all, you musical monster! Thank you for your ART!!!

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

@@peterweins9017 Thank you for listening to a tad unorthodox music.

@peterweins9017

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh It is my great pleasure i need like the air to breathe.

You bury deep, I dig it up again… You say, ‘Now!’, I don’t remember when… I lay here deaf, yet I hear everything… No-one knows what yesterday may bring… It’s all a blur yet I see crystal clear… Come on closer, I don’t want you near… Just getting started, is it over yet? I do not remember to forget… 41 41, 41 41, 41 41… 41 There is no rush, let’s do it right away… Never better, I am not ok… I know you well, but tell me, who are you? I miss and I still don’t have a clue… 41 41, 41 41… It’s freezing cold, somehow I swim in sweat… Don’t be scared, but I sure pose a threat… Forty one, you are all around me now… Duly let go up when any how (?)… (solo) 41….. 41…. I lost my tithe and now we speak in code… Selling out on the less travelled road… The force is used to overcome the force… Is it a dog or just a tiny horse… 41 41, 41 41, 41 41, 41 41… 41….. (Sorry, best I could do.)

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

Very, very close! Well done! You bury deep, I dig it up again… You say, ‘Now!’, I don’t remember when I may here deaf, yet I hear everything No-one knows what yesterday may bring… It’s all a blur yet I see crystal clear… Come on closer, I don’t want you near Just getting started, is it over yet? I do not remember to forget… 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 There is no rush, let’s do it right away… Never better, I am not ok… I know you well, but tell me, who are you? Omniscient, I still don’t have a clue… 41 41 41 41 It’s freezing cold, somehow I swim in sweat… Don’t be scared, but I sure pose a threat… Forty one, you are all around me now… You didn't go but went anyhow 41 41 I lost my tongue and now you speak in code Selling out on the less travelled road The force is used to overcome the force This a dog or just a tiny horse? 41 41, 41 41, 41 41, 41 41… 41...

@robp775

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh FWIW, my first misheard lyrics of FAL/FK, but my ears, like the rest of me, are aging a bit poorly these days, and the distortion was just enough to make me struggle... but on the bright side, it's the same quality as what I do to your guitar parts... somewhere in the rough ball park with some complete fuck-ups that seem to sound close.

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

@@robp775 You did very well. There are tons of effects on the vocals.

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh Rob did very well ....I always botch it up though...I thought it was 'IS A TUMBLE JUST A TIMING HORSE' ...& 'Dreaming my apartment anyhow'......I always listen closely to Mattias's lyrics because they can be very interesting...But you have to realize that I'm the idiot who in the 1970s mis transcribed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody line- 'Beelzebub has a devil put aside for..' as 'Beelzebub has A DEVIL FOR A SIDEBOARD'🤔🤨.....& as a 7 yr old I thought the song title lyric - 'Me and you and a dog named Boo' was 'Me and you and a DONKEY BLUE' 😬🥴....& Alice Cooper's Loony tune line - 'Hey , where have I been' ? ....to me was -'HEY, WE'RE LOCKED IN' .🙄🙄 🤐

@robp775

Жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 He couldn't use 'Hey, we're locked in!' that phrase is trademarked for the new Australian anthem. And thank you. However the title for the all time best misheard lyrics in history still remains (15 years later) in the hands of this youtuber... kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2uMwdqOl8raerA.html You won't be disappointed :)

This is a bit serious & dark for Mattias ? ...Especially the Snowman......41 is 41/4 time ? ...At 1:47 you doing ok there ? 🙁 ??

@mattias_ia_eklundh

Жыл бұрын

Doing very OK. 🥰 Just tried to look diabolical. 😆 Yes, 41/4. 👍

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh okie Dokie …lol

@walterevans2118

Жыл бұрын

@@mattias_ia_eklundh I don’t know how you do some of these time changes Mattias. Just trying to do some of them makes one worry that ones hands are going to fall off…I remember in this Paris masterclass the solo section of Rabbit hole shuffle his 8 string neck had to be put out with fire extinguishers…Plus whenever I hear Mattias’ radical time experiments while listening I have to simultaneously drink whole bottles of orange LUCOZADE in order to replace lost energy. ..lol

That's awesome dekka dakka dekka dikka !

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