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August 9th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 483, Tom Bukovac, “Playboy”
Chapters00:00 - Those Blues are played
06:42 - Hey friends! / Dead clean Gretsch Playboy amp
09:02 - Blistering gig with Vince Gill / Band being tight
13:35 - Ann Wilson gig and getting tight
14:07 - Finding quality through Instagram post about restaurant (Deg Thai)
16:40 - Hellcat stereo system / Dire Straights - Tunnel of Love / Bob Seger - Night Moves
Notes
Uncle Larry plugs straight into some of Valco’s finest work …and raises questions to The Lord Himself about the great and eternal mysteries about the magical powers of live music.
This circa 1960 Gretsch Playboy amp is the cleanest one you will ever find kids....Ebo worked on it and when he handed it back to me he was like "dude, that thing is fuckin' CLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAN"...
he rarely says shit like that
1500 LOCAL PICKUP ONLY friends
two things Uncle Larry doesn't do....
1) eat oysters
2) ship amps
the thumbnail is some poor kid puking out of the back of an Uber on lower Broadway that i captured last night on the way home from the gig... welcome to Nashville Tourist Hell my friends
You might want to re-think that next summer vacation....
here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...
if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free
the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com
the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
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August 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 482, Tom Bukovac, “Hot Tub Larry”
Chapters00:00 - Altoids box amp
02:31 - Something Tony Iommi would play
02:40 - Lesson: Bending root note to sound like 60s
04:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Hornswaggling & horsetrading / Hot-tub Larry
06:44 - Replacement speaker for Deluxe Reverb?
07:36 - Gus video (Stalker Guy) / Lying about $1,000
09:29 - Learn to trust a blank calendar / Tumbleweeds
12:15 - Descriptions of videos / English language
13:35 - Straw tone and descriptive words for sound / Lynyrd Skynyrd neck pickup solo?
16:49 - Coated strings and other things
Notes
Uncle Larry delves into some blazing hot VCB and serves up some breath freshening tone with an old 55 LP Custom an a custom amp built into an Altoids box made by the fine folks at
Deluxe Amplification out of Dayton TN
www.deluxeamplification.com
August 5th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 481, Tom Bukovac, “The Mind Of The Musician”
Chapters00:00 - Peavey amp
02:15 - Bench video
Notes
Uncle Larry...aka "the hornswaggler"...delves into the ancient psychology that bounces around inside the mind of the average working musician.
He discusses the paranoia of work scheduling…and even sheds some light on the up and down rollercoaster of emotions that are always at play during the many seasons of the typical lifer musician’s career…all whilst putting some brand new D'Addario 013s on a 64 j-50
My dear Grandma used to always say "The Lord loves a good old Peavey amp"...
these old Mace 320T's are not easy to find...these were purportedly the ACTUAL models that the Lynyrd Skynyrd boys REALLY used in their heyday....six power tubes delivering 160 watts of bone crushing Mississippi Marshall tone.
this particular example is barely limping along and definitely needs some love, but even considering all that it STILL sounds damn good.
i would bet this amp has never even been serviced one time in these first 50 years of its life... but the thing still runs, and even the reverb and tremolo effects still work.
i have said this many times in the past and i will say it again...Hartley Peavey was DEFINITELY the Leo Fender of his day, making affordable "field replaceable" gear that the common man could fucking COUNT on every night, no matter what the gig or the conditions were like.
i would like to personally thank a Homeskooler named Christopher Kueffler for dragging this beast down from the snowy north.
I've been listening to these old Skynyrd records RELIGIOUSLY since i was a boy....i always wanted to mess with one of these amps just to see if there was any of "that Skynyrd magic" in them, even though i always suspected it was just their hands making those tones, and not that particular amp....
however, to my amazement, in just a brief amount of time messing around with one, i can already immediately tell that these amps REALLY ARE responsible for delivering a large part of that legendary tone.
on several old Skynyrd tracks, i always thought Gary was getting what i picture in my mind as a "straw" tone...
there's a fizziness to the distortion on a lot of his sounds that reminds me somehow of a distorted guitar sound coming through a straw...follow me on this friends.
there's like a reediness to the distortion that makes it unique.
this particular lead break on "saturday night special" is one many examples of that "straw tone" in my humble opinion.
i also would bet my bottom dollar that Gary was using the neck pickup of "Bernice" on this solo, with the treble on the amp cranked.
you can hear it if you listen REALLY close...it's a neck pickup, not the bridge
prove me wrong friends..
August 3rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 479, Tom Bukovac, “First Glimmer Of Fall… Transitions…”
Chapters00:00 - Looping some sweet tunes
06:21 - '69 Gibson SG Standard
07:00 - '58 Fender Telecaster
09:02 - Chopped '59 Fender Stratocaster
10:21 - '53 Fender Telecaster Blackguard
Notes
Uncle Larry regroups after the final run of his busy summer touring schedule….
it's been a TON of fun, but like the old saying goes, it's good to home friends
Special shout out to all the sweethearts who came out last night that I failed to mention in this video
Jimmy and Jill Fox
Frank Amato
Mark Reis
Great times boys...Hello Cleveland!!
here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...
if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free
the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com
the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
July 21st, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Two More Days Friends”
Chapters00:00 - Rocking with the wah - Mick Ronson style
01:23 - Mick Ronson wah / Brett Papa course
02:44 - Boss BP-1w Booster / Preamp / Thanks for many gifts
04:03 - '65 Gibson Firebird / Controls and layout
06:50 - Lesson: Tom Morello boing
08:08 - Lesson: Coolest note in E (Bb)
Notes
my dear friends and fellow rock and roll enthusiasts, these next two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) are the last two days to get my instructional course at the discounted $199.00 price tag..after that it goes up to the original list price of 299.00
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
Here is the link for the new t shirts kids...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...
Also special thanks to:
Greg for the cool Cleveland mug
Chris for the tiny amp built into an Altoids box
Pete Thomas for the Larry’s hair putty
You guys are all sweethearts for being thoughtful enough to send gifts ...i appreciate it
and....i may have found just the thing to cover that nasty route on that chopper 68 Telecaster bass i got recently ...an original 70's Hunter Ronson tour sticker
looks a hell of a lot better with a cool pickguard don't it?
Todays rig
65 Gibson firebird I
Gretsch 6161 combo amp made by Valco
July 21st, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Thank You Letter”
Chapters00:00 - Blues playing
03:24 - What's up, friends! / Tal/Buk show thank you
05:02 - Packages sent to the Bukovac Office catching up
06:00 - Thank yous
Notes
This video says it all for me right now
July 6th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 472, Tom Bukovac, “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Body”
Chapters00:00 - Playing P90s
02:53 - What's up, friends!
05:42 - Lesson / Quiz: Prog Rock lick
06:17 - Prog Rocker?
06:44 - Course, tablature, good stuff
07:37 - Joe Walsh and ham radio
08:47 - Soulful Strat Lake Placid Blue
09:38 - Nick Govrik record
10:53 - Reading music? Not at all / Jo Dee Messina Christmas album (A Joyfull Noise)
14:09 - '60 Gibson ES-330 / Vs ES-335 nothing alike / Hollowbody vs Solidbody
15:50 - Ted Nugent and being able to do what he did
Notes
Uncle Larry walks ya through some late Sunday night VCB on a 60 es-330
If you wanna take the plunge on the new Uncle Larry guitar instructional course here is the link...
you will learn so much shit that even your wife will be like "damn, that sounds good honey"
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
July 3rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 468, Tom Bukovac, “Hillbilly With A Hellcat”
Chapters00:00 - Honky Tonk playing
06:13 - Thank you for course
08:17 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / The trashy side of comments and retort
11:28 - Real Country players / Paul Franklin
13:33 - The tuning of the Pedal Steel / Buddy Emmens, etc.
15:33 - Lesson: Steel kick
17:45 - Brett Papa course
Notes
ENDLESS thank you’s to everyone out there who took the plunge and bought the course
I am SO HAPPY that you guys dig it
Here’s the link
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...
June 22nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “One More Time For Nicky G”
Chapters00:00 - Nick Govrik music
02:34 - Uncle Larry coming at ya
04:01 - 3rd & Lindsley
04:40 - Gibson ES-355
05:21 - Reproduction pickguard
06:01 - Playing
09:55 - Sign off
Notes
Happy Sunday friends, come on down and see us Friday night June 27th at 3rd and Lindsley for the album release party for my dear friend Nick Govrik's new record "One More Time For The Man'....produced by yours truly, and featuring a cavalcade of guests.
Guthrie, Jedd and myself will all be playing in the backing band…it should be some good clean fun for everyone involved.
Here's the link if you wanna check it out…made with a lot of love by two old hillbillies who have been friends for a long time
https://www.nickgovrik.com/
also, go to this site to check out the amazing new Dann Huff record "When Words Aren't Enough"
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/produc...
and PLEASE don't forget about signing for my new course that should be out in about a week or so...
go to maximumlarry.com/course add your email to the list, which will allow you to get half off the price of the course.
and then, on July 18th, also at 3rd and Lindsley, check out Tal Kin Buk....a little collaboration gig between myself and Tal Wilkenfeld, also with some great special guests
June 21st, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Macon Gold”
Chapters00:00 - The Story of Dwayne Allman's GoldTop
03:45 - Acoustic A/Gmaj7...
04:45 - Vince Gill playing the Les Paul
07:06 - More background story
07:25 - Actual playing
07:52 - Tom playing Lynryd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special on the Dwayne's Goldtop
Notes
Hello dear Homeskoolers…dearest Richard Brent, the fella that’s shown at the beginning of this video, was kind enough to bring over the iconic 57 Goldtop that Duane Allman used to plunk on to our soundcheck today .
The guitar is usually on display at the Allman brothers museum in Macon GA, which was about a mile from the old venue we played at apparently.
What a cool old guitar, it’s certainly been through a lot in its life…lots of changes and many owners…but all you gotta do is plug it in and hear it through an amplifier to quickly understand that it’s charm is pretty undeniable.
A nice lightweight guitar with a fairly shallow neck profile, that sports a FANTASTIC sounding pair of PAF’s that are extremely balanced with rich sounding midrange.
What’s not to love?
Special thanks to Steve Harlamert
Here’s a link to some website history on the guitar
June 20th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 465, Tom Bukovac, “Livin After Midnight Ramblin’ Riders On The Storm”
Chapters00:00 - Tom and Jedd
06:00 - Stories from the road (Ronnie Mullins)
07:00 - Acoustic strumming
09:51 - Greetings from Georgia
11:11 - Allman Brothers
12:09 - Throwing bass track down in 5 minutes
13:15 - Vince Gill shows
13:52 - Lesson: Cool lick [8 8 7 x x x] -> [8 6 8 x x x]
15:04 - Instagram
16:08 - Tal Wilkinfeld gig / Videoing at comic gigs
18:20 - Playing
19:43 - Over and out
Notes
Through the magic of “modern digital editing”, Uncle Larry creates a soft cozy quilt of Homeskoolin’ from some leftover fabric remnants that he had laying around …a coat of many colors
…AND he introduces you to the coolest thing that ever came out of West Virginia…and that my friends is a fella named Ronnie Mullins
If you guys are indeed getting some thrills out of these absolutely free videos where I NEVER ask you to “subscribe” or “smash that like button”, please feel free to donate a little something to the virtual Homeskoolin tip jar
My PayPal address is tombukovac@gmail.com
My Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
You can also still buy nice soft extremely comfy Homeskoolin t shirts in many styles at this site friends
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/me...
June 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Roy D Mercer Theater”
Chapters00:00 - Eddie Dunlap playing
06:30 - Drumming
Notes
You know you’re in a pretty good band when the pedal steel player and the keyboard player on the gig are better guitar players than most lead guitar players in other bands
Meet Eddie Dunlap , pedal steeler to the stars
a 35 year old man with the soul of an 80 year old
Not to mention a crucial drum lesson from Billy Thomas
June 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Savannah Banana”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking in a hotel
01:48 - Lesson: Lick you should know
02:38 - Savannah Georgia with Vince Gill update
04:07 - Greg Koch
05:15 - June 6th course technical difficulties
05:54 - Road hacks (shampoo, etc.)
Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from his hotel room with his phone sitting on the desk propped up by a banana…pretty high tech huh?
You do know that you are never supposed to bring a banana on a fishing boat right?
June 3rd, 2025
If interested please email tiagocastro1974@gmail.com Local Nashville sales would be preferred and price can be negotiated
Chapters00:00 - '69 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with '68 appointments
02:31 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
05:19 - Marshall Basketweave cabs
Notes
If interested please email tiagocastro1974@gmail.com
Local Nashville sales would be preferred and price can be negotiated
June 2nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 460, Tom Bukovac, “Ghost In The Machine”
Chapters00:00 - Jazzy intro
00:37 - Creepiest amp ever heard
04:10 - Hello / Coolest guitar
04:25 - '36 Gibson ES-150 Charlie Christian pickup
05:29 - Red felt end strings / Charlie Christian
06:52 - Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
07:40 - Lesson: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
09:40 - Course possible delay due technical glitch
10:45 - '58 Rickenbaker Capri - Autmn Glo
12:09 - Cut the cap off bridge pickup
13:56 - Dann Huff and Keith Urban
14:30 - Mellow version of yourself
Notes
Uncle Larry traverses joyfully across several styles of adult guitarisms on a 1936 ES-150….only to wind up on some old hillbilly music
editors note:
the guy i bought it from told me they are Thomastik Infeld Jazz Swing 12 strings
May 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin' Volume 457, Tom Bukovac, "Does Wood REALLY Matter?"
Chapters
00:00 - Fishing out calming notes
03:20 - Old Homeskoolin' picks
04:11 - Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
05:02 - Volume pedal swells
05:40 - Skyline Motel
06:10 - Lesson: Waterfall guitar part
09:00 - Got a 'car guy' for the Hellcat with special TN black plates
09:45 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Titles of videos, school newspaper, Creative Writing, Math
12:17 - JC-120
12:30 - Gibson Les Paul -> Duesenberg Sessionman
14:18 - Morgan Wallen records and different mixes (Wood, 808, etc.)
16:00 - Maximumlarry.com
16:30 - Ghost story / Haunted guitar
17:09 - 3 50's Gibson Les Paul acoustic shootout
17:26 - '55 Custom
17:53 - '58 Special
18:18 - '52 Goldtop
19:00 - Lesson: E F G A B C D E
Notes
I was just thinking to myself...what would be the funniest most bullshit clickbait video title i could possibly think of...
here's a cool old track...the legendary Richard Bennett on acoustic...Uncle Larry on electrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPyzrdsKhe0
May 25th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 455, Tom Bukovac, “The Wide Wide River Of Tuning”
Chapters00:00 - Gibson P90 harmonics
06:09 - Pedalboard laboratory
Notes
Uncle Larry shows you some licks and some gear
Please sign up for the email list to get half off my course that comes out June 6
maximumlarry.com/course
May 18th, 2025
Homeskoolin' Volume 450, Tom Bukovac, "maximumlarry.com/course"
Chapters00:00 - Gibson Firebird string changing
02:17 - Dean Cadillac back from Gruhn's
03:09 - Second wave of vintage / Pink Ibanez
05:03 - Jedd's copied amp circuit and Ebo
07:21 - Shaq, convertible Hellcat
16:00 - Redd Volkaert
22:18 - Gruhn Guitars Inc. - George Gruhn
Notes
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May 16th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Old School Friday Rewind
Chapters00:00 - Fucking great tunes!
Notes
open your minds kids…
take a little trip back to the olden days with Uncle Larry….
#jazzcurious
#clintweak
#bobwillsowick
tryin like hell to learn how to play guitar on a Friday night through a dying echoplex
This one goes out to my old buddy Scank
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May 13th, 2025
Homeskoolin' Volume 446, Tom Bukovac, "Wild 700 Horses"
Chapters00:00 - Playing Special
01:30 - Just Larry / Real Tube and MXR Sugar Drive
02:25 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special through Princeton Reverb
02:50 - Real Tube pedal
04:58 - Nobels ODR-1
05:37 - MXR Sugar Drive
08:42 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Let everything go
09:40 - Good sound from Nobels with Les Paul comment
10:32 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
12:27 - Touring to bus level / Doing your own thing vs sideman
14:50 - Stalker Guy channel tanking
15:24 - Hellcat
Notes
Why do we still use horses as a unit of engine power measurement anyway?
Is it to further belittle the horse?