May 14th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 309, Tom Bukovac, “From Dusk Til Dawn”

Chapters
00:00 - The Blues coming to town
04:10 - Bad jacks / Hey, friends! / Suffering the Summer
05:40 - Cool gifts / Charles Bukowski Envelope Filter
07:38 - Not really a wah or filter user
08:34 - Shit in life that really works (Advil, Dawn, Music City Bridge, etc.)
09:25 - Amazon is making pedals now
10:35 - Base tone sound
11:30 - Amazon Distortion / Liking Amazon
13:00 - Thanks / Building & writing a song
15:40 - Techniques ("devices"), styles, mixing it up
17:30 - Killer show "Rust Valley Restorers" with Mike Hall


Notes
Uncle Larry revels in late spring with a 57 PAF goldie and a hot cuppa joe

....and he tries out a coupla pedals too....


more CD's are coming early next week....1500 have already sold and we hastily ordered 1000 more cuz we didn't think we were gonna sell that many

Vinyl coming very soon

thank you for your patience friends

May 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Petit Bouche”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - 1950 Petit Bouche / Django Reinhardt sound (Jazz)
01:28 - Petit Bouche playing / That tone
02:40 - '30 Gibson L-5 (George's loudest ever heard)
03:38 - L-5 playing
04:46 - "I can play Foghat"
05:10 - Comparison of guitars
06:00 - Stromberg vs. L-5
06:30 - What do you like best?


Notes
Hello friends…I just wanted to do a quick video with George after I fell absolutely in love with both of these KILLER guitars, even though I have no idea how to play them…

If any of you guys out there play this type of music i can tell you for a FACT that either of these old guitars are a no brainer.

May 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “No User Serviceable Parts Inside”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming along
00:37 - Hey friends! / Gildan
01:26 - '56 Gibson Les Paul Special
02:15 - Strymon Flint Reverb
03:03 - Reverb comparison
03:33 - Back to the guitar
05:21 - Another '58 Gibson Les Paul Special
06:08 - Quarter inch up on the pickup
07:21 - Back to the '56 bridge pickup / Pukey middle sound
08:16 - Bukovac & Guthrie Record


Notes
Don’t adjust your set, you are not seeing double…it's just two TV specials from the golden age…

In the video I failed to mention that the neck on the 56 that’s for sale is a good bit chunkier than the one on my '=58.

If interested email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

to buy the Guthrie Trapp "In Stereo" record click here friends

https://bakedalaskarecords.com/products/in-stereo-cd

May 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 306, Tom Bukovac, “In Stereo” Album Review” (well, first half anyway)

Chapters
00:00 - Sliding and a pickin'
00:20 - Good morning / "In Stereo" record deep dive setup
01:27 - Coffee and not giving a fuck
02:45 - Folgers Classic Roast is the Gildan of coffee
03:33 - Beer snobs / Being picky
04:04 - "In Stereo" talk
05:10 - Tracks listing order, dissection
06:05 - Track sequencing


Notes
Uncle Larry goes through the first few tracks of the new album with you ….

If you haven’t heard the record yet you should save this video to watch later…seriously

here is the link to buy the record
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

Unrelated, if any of you guys are looking for a bangin 56 les paul tv special I have one here for sale. A friend brought it over…he wants 15k plus domestic US shipping for it

It’s a damn nice guitar

Cons:
Old Grovers clearly put on a million years ago, original keys not included

Refretted with slightly larger than original sized frets

Comes in a 70s Gibson les paul case

Pros:
Nice comfortable weight

Beautiful fairly worn original TV finish with no overspray and no repairs whatsoever

Big chunky kick ass neck

It’s already got a music city bridge on it

all original parts otherwise

This guitar plays great, sounds great, looks great

Email me for photos at tombukovac@gmail.com

May 4th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Most Pimp Gibson Amp Of All Time”

Chapters
00:00 - Robots, bikes, Schwinn, Brett Papa
03:18 - '60 Gibson GA-83S
06:13 - Playing the GA-83S
07:28 - Back in the day (Ebo)
08:05 - Switching center speaker off / Leslie


Notes
If you can stick around through the opening “collage” you can cast thine orbs upon the rarest unicorn of an amp that ever rolled out of Kalamazoo

The 1960 Gibson GA-83S stereo tube amp

6BQ5 (EL-84) power tubes
5 speakers
one 12” and four 8”
stereo “vib-trem”…which is like nature’s univibe….

Uncle Larry has been actively hunting one of these exotic beasts for probably 15 years…previous to this one, he has only seen one in real life in his 55 years on this planet

This was undoubtedly Gibson’s alltime flagship amplifier and certainly their most indulgent design statement in the history of the Gibson amp line-up…they probably made less than 100 of these total …and I’m pretty sure they were all built in 1960

Magical times back in these days…the crazy things that these brilliant engineers were doing with vacuum tubes at companies like magnatone, fender, marshall, valco, danelectro and vox…

Gibson and Gretsch both pushed in all their chips banking that stereo was gonna be the wave of the future…but the future had other plans.

May 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 305, Tom Bukovac, “That Confounded Bridge”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' some chords
02:20 - Far out pickin' pattern
03:08 - Yo'! / Gibson Maestro GA-45
04:07 - Song form (very important) / "Fixing a broken song"
08:15 - Lesson: "The Middle Eight"
09:43 - Best bridges of all time: 38 Special - Caught Up In You
12:00 - Back half of the bridge / Low harmony
12:33 - Working with Donnie & Johnny Van Zant
13:11 - Bridge is even better #2: Badfinger - Baby Blue
14:50 - Best bridge of all: Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (Reggie Young)
16:53 - Good bridge: Aerosmith - Living On The Edge


Notes
Uncle Larry gives ya a little look into the world of song form….and a magical device that the British call “the middle eight”

Oh, and the click bait thumbnail has absolutely NOTHING to do with this video but I just thought some of you motorheads out there might dig takin a gander at the 71 396 Camaro I owned for a while back before my dear boys were born

If you like these silly videos then maybe something in the tip jar…

If you hate them, then don’t…

My PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com

My Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

May 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “He Bought What??”

Chapters
00:00 - Unboxing video ('97 Fender Telecaster - Made in Japan (MIJ))
04:23 - Reveal / Tuning
06:00 - Playing
08:08 - Setup and acoustically
08:43 - '66 Fender Telecaster
09:04 - '66 Tele plugged in
10:08 - MIJ Tele plugged in
11:30 - '66 Tele
12:20 - MIJ Tele
12:57 - Highly recommend '90's MIJ Fender


Notes
I guaranTEE you that none of you guys saw this coming….

May 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 304, Tom Bukovac, “The European Way”

Chapters
00:00 - Picking at the Blues
07:55 - Flimsy pick? / Morning beer / Playing
09:43 - What a 335! / "The Click" and Larry Carlton on Steeley Dan record
10:43 - Ted Williams & Mark McGuire story ("Bat burn")
11:51 - Brett Papas and video work
12:10 - Lesson: Loose and from the wrist
13:43 - "Bat burner" Ted Williams
14:29 - '60 Gibson ES-335 / Thin, fast, controllable neck
15:38 - The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind interpretation
16:30 - House with the pool / Inner Clevelander
17:29 - May have to sell '57 Goldtop
18:35 - Lesson: Cool lick that makes your bass player give you a look


Notes
Uncle Larry pulls out of San Pedro late one night and shakes it on down into overdrive…

This one is chock full of licks you can steal…brought to you by none other than Peter Blacklarge.

Hope you enjoy these videos friends.

April 29th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 302, Tom Bukovac “Boilin’ Frogs”

Chapters
00:00 - Cruising in the Monte
00:45 - Playing some uplifting tunes with a loop
04:10 - Hello, friends! / Thomas Joseph Bukovac / East Lake Public School shout out / Boys update
06:39 - SPAM calls
07:10 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Pete Townshend or Rose
07:41 - Hardest thing you had to do on a session? / Sessioneering, being a prostitute, and picky
12:06 - Trippy effect / In the face of negativity and insight into lashing out / Focus on the positive
14:39 - The Gear Page thread twist into personal attacks / Darkness in the world and focusing on the positive
19:06 - Saying something fucked up / Teddy Boy
20:15 - Lesson: Burning fast lick / Gibson Maestro


Notes
I remember my dear old friend Tony Lucido talking a while back about how all the stress and pressure of this modern world just keeps getting ratcheted up higher and higher….

I remember him saying “we are all just boiling frogs man”….

Hahaaa…so can anyone out there relate to that???

…if truer words have ever been spoken I’d sure as hell like to hear them…

Stay strong friends…a lot of this shit is actually not our fault.

not to sound TOO cliche….but like I always tell my boys….you just gotta zoom out and try to get some perspective about where your own personal problems fall inside the BIG picture of real problems….

and you GOTTA TRY to focus on the positive

April 20th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Quickie “Diablo”

Chapters
00:00 - The Lin "Diablo" Pickup


Notes
Just a quickie to let you hear this bumpin’ Tele bridge pickup that my dear friend Lin Crowson from Gruhns made for me, per my request, for my 66 Tele.

I really like it a lot…hot broadcaster type balls. We call it the Diablo.

Lin is the guy that verifies the originality of all the guitars that come into gruhns…the boy definitely knows his shit.

Here’s his contact
https://www.instagram.com/i_got_broke_guitars/?utm_source=qr

April 19th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Back In Tweed Deluxe City”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing the keys
00:48 - Amp play through set up and speakers (Scank "Uncle Larry" / '61 Tweed / '58 Tweed)
01:31 - Gibson SG Special (Secret treble bleed)
01:55 - Scank "Uncle Larry" play through
02:35 - '61 Tweed play through
03:25 - '58 Tweed play through
04:00 - New to the Tweed and Blues
04:10 - Scank "Uncle Larry"
04:35 - '61 Tweed
05:13 - Thanks to viewer Ron
05:25 - '58 Tweed
05:51 - Speaker differences
06:12 - Negative feedback / Scank "Uncle Larry"
07:10 - '61 Tweed
07:25 - '58 Tweed
08:11 - Turn it to 2 / Tuning them in
08:50 - Scank "Uncle Larry" / Putting a mic on them
09:16 - '61 Tweed
09:31 - '58 Tweed
10:06 - Tom Bukovac & Guthrie Trapp - In Stereo


Notes
Uncle Larry’s old pal Mike “Scank” Scaggs shows us some Tweed Deluxes....old and new.

also:

The Guthrie record is gonna be out in less than two weeks....the sound quality of the CD is unreal....looking forward to seeing what all you audiophiles with 50K stereos say.
Mixes by Brandon Bell and mastering by Eric Conn

AND....i just re-loaded 300 more new "Plexi Soul" CD's at guitar house in Tulsa if anyone wants one...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/tom-bukovac-plexi-soul-cd.html


if you wanna check out one of Scank's tweed deluxes go here:
https://www.p2pamps.com

April 10th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “How To Properly Break In A New Gibson Guitar Case”

Chapters
00:00 - Cutting the cloth


Notes
Part one of breaking in a new Gibson case to make it actually usable for a gigging musician.


Part two involves making some small “adjustments” to the center locking latch with a screwdriver

Hope you enjoy friends.

April 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 300, Tom Bukovac, “When Chairs Fly”

Chapters
00:00 - The Black Keys - On The Game
01:18 - Hey, early morning Larry / 100,000 Subscribers plaque / Fishing
02:55 - "Eclipse Monday" / Homeskooler Tweed Deluxe buy
03:43 - The Black Keys
05:00 - '63 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Old Gibson beater, run of the mill acoustic
07:43 - "The booze guy" / Negative connotation and cannot conform to everyone
10:44 - Morgan Wallace "chair" incident
12:53 - "Kalamazoo Corral" Gibson shootout video comments
13:38 - "Which one do you like to play?" / Refretting the Goldtop
15:06 - '57 Gibson ES-175
16:00 - Signing out


Notes
Sorry I had to repost this as there was a problem with the first upload


Southern jumbos, eclipses, 300th episodes…you name it we got it in this video friends.
Thank you guys again for being so cool and supporting the cause to bring chords back to music throughout the last 4 years and throughout 300 episodes and 900 plus videos.

It truly means a lot to Larry.

Larry’s PayPal tip jar feed hose pipe is connected to this address
Tombukovac@gmail.com.
His Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

April 7th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 299, Tom Bukovac, “Shootout At The Kalamazoo Corral”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / Shootout ('57 Goldtop, '59 Black Custom, '58 Burst, '69 Custom)
00:24 - Notice of the pitch angle
00:44 - Nice day fishing / Disclaimers
01:45 - Shootout setup (Big Jam Distortion, Vemuram Shanks, Princeton)
02:40 - '57 Goldtop Bridge
03:33 - '58 Burst Bridge ("Larryburst")
04:45 - '59 Custom Bridge ("Black Beauty")
05:58 - '69 Custom Bridge
07:03 - Blind test setup
07:48 - Exhibit A
08:20 - Exhibit B
08:56 - Exhibit C
09:34 - Exhibit D
10:16 - Lick A
10:45 - Lick B
11:18 - Lick C
11:48 - Lick D
12:31 - Acoustic A
12:56 - Acoustic B
13:19 - Acoustic C
13:46 - Acoustic D
14:13 - Closeout and VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
14:35 - Recovering alcoholic viewer / "Thinking..."
16:12 - Q: Sessions sounding out of tune?  A: Takes a lot to build the song; Practicing...we know
17:55 - "Black Beauty" '59 Custom helps drives the player / Inspiration factor
19:34 - Happy fishing


Notes
Uncle Larry performs a friendly little bridge pickup only shootout on a few of the more noteworthy items that came from the Golden Age of the Greatest Guitar Company To Ever Exist on this beautiful planet of ours….and a 69 too

This video is for entertainment purposes only…no user serviceable parts inside

Directors note: the guitars were cycled through in the same order in each of the “blind tests”…results will be forthcoming for anyone that actually gives a fuck

Spoiler Alert! - Guitars

A - '58 Burst
B - '57 Goldtop
C - '69 Custom
D - '59 Black Custom

April 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin' Volume 298, Tom Bukovac, "Something Borrowed Something Black"

Chapters
00:00 - Session take on the goldtop
01:45 - Playing some ZZ Top montage riffs into full rock n' roll into Joe Walsh on a black Gibson Les Paul Custom
08:58 - The 3 best guitars I've played but don't own (Dan Auerbach - '60 Tele Custom, Jim Bagget - '38 Martin D-18, Elliot Michael - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom)
09:27 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
10:23 - Acoustically played
10:50 - Bridge pickup
11:32 - Playing like Jimmy Page
11:58 - Out-of-phase bridge and middle pickup (shit sound)
12:24 - Neck pickup
13:10 - Trying to buy the guitar / Headstock repair, doesn't care


Notes
"well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar"...

The opening bit is one of Nicky G's soulful masterpieces...from the sessions we did this week.

April 5th, 2024

Holmeskoolin’ Bonus “Early Morning Bench Time”

Chapters
00:00 - Reverend Willy's string change on '57 Goldtop / Haggling


Notes
Coffee and PAF’s with Larry.

April 4th, 2024

Holmeskoolin’ Bonus “Johnny Bench”

Chapters
00:00 - String change / Gibson shapes / Les Paul himself / Vibratos
18:57 - Behind closed doors practicing


Notes
Uncle Larry breathes some new life into a tired old early 62 LPSG…

And the end of this video is a typical slice of the devil music emanating from the bedroom at the end of the hall while I’m making dad’s spaghetti.

He does like it when I try to go in there when he’s jamming.

April 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 297, Tom Bukovac, “Bench Bum”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! (catch phrase) / Impending storm
00:57 - Changing up YouTube / 1 of 31,000 / Changing strings (dead strings)
31:57 - Crease that string to stay in tune
37:06 - Marshall stuff for sale


Notes
Uncle Larry breathes some new life into an exhausted old 69 custom.

I have had lots of inquiries about the "pile of plexi"...i'm going to start off by trying to sell the entire collection at once...35K for all 7 pieces. if you study the market on plexi's with original transformers you will clearly see that is a very fair price. I know that people who are card carrying members of the old marshall cult like to buy things in collections so i am starting there. local pickup only of course...no shipping. i would also consider a trade for a dead original slab board 59 or 60 two tone tele custom...and of course any no excuses pre 1965 es-335

March 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 296, Tom Bukovac, “Cantaloupe In Easter Hay”

Chapters
00:00 - Finger picking memories while looping and warbling
06:48 - Hello, friends! / Happy Easter / Tonga Hut
08:50 - Spicy comment section about clickbait thumbnail / Non-homophobic channel perspective
11:52 - Sincere thank you
12:23 - Naming guitars or ever name a guitar?
13:25 - Busy week
14:02 - What pickups look good, but sound bad? (Supro, Extended Range, Speedbump, Hersheybar)
16:20 - Any gear looking for? / '59-'60 Slabboard Tele Custom


Notes
Uncle Larry revisits one of the old Homeskoolin’ classics…a gesture of calming peace and brotherhood on this lovely Easter Sunday…

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter.....thank you all for your continued support of my 4 year crusade to bring chords back to music.

today's episode goes out to all the Home(ophobia)skoolers i had to say goodbye to yesterday...it's been real people.


and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....
if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...especially since it's tax season ferchrissakes



You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1


a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/

AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com

You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.

A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to... one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul

another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch

March 30th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 295, Tom Bukovac “Colorado”

Chapters
00:00 - Loopin' with the echoing '58 Burst
06:21 - Hello, Homeskoolers'!
06:43 - '58 Gibson Les Paul "Burst" / "Like your favorite restaurante" / Internet transportation of guitars
07:45 - Brett Papa video of Tom and Guthrie in the studio / Guthrie record / Expensive to make a record
08:44 - "Using cowboy chords?" /  CAGED
10:00 - Friend wants a 70's Fawn Marshall JMP
10:28 - Selling Marshalls?
11:37 - Best effect pedal company / Electro-Harmonix
12:58 - Talking with Eric "Ebo" Borash
14:04 - Lesson: Loop & "4 Bar Loop" / New Country songs themes (alcohol) / "Colorado" song


Notes
i just did a google images search for "beautiful colorado snowy landscape" to put something pretty in the thumbnail for this video.
i don't know who those people are, but those snowy mountains in the background are just beautiful aren't they?

in this video...Uncle Larry plunks on a 58 burst and gets into some naughty VCB...

"can't forget the way her brown hair catches the wind...shoulda stayed in coloraaaaaadoooo".....
ya' know, something like that for the last bit of the soaring chorus...



and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....

if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...especially since it's tax season ferchrissakes

You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1


a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/

AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com

You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.

A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to... one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul

another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch