June 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “The Kansas Comet”

Chapters
00:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Marshall JCM 800, Marshall JMP 2204, Fender Tweed Bassman


Notes
High humidity dog days mid summer garage sale friends …140 total watts of ass kicking chick getting tube amps right here…and not a single quad fractal IRC helix kemper cortex in sight

82 vertical input 50w jcm800. 2500
80 jmp 2204 50w. 3000
59 tweed Bassman 40w 4x10”. 7500

LOCAL PICKUP ONLY

Nothing else pictured in the video for sale , esPECially the football jerseys

If someone was to buy all three we could definitely consider a nice little package deal discount

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

June 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 658, Tom Bukovac, “The Teenage Years”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Hot and humid
03:45 - Parenting is challenging / Phone and age dilemma
10:00 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
11:22 - Guthrie and Jedd record
12:35 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Custom
15:15 - D'Addario half rounds strings / Playing: Fender Telecaster
22:00 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about the most difficult part of parenting whilst restringing a golden age Black Beauty.

The guitar in the thumbnail is a real photo of a real burst that sadly underwent some good old fashioned hillbilly craftsmanship and some very clever D.I.Y. “repair work”

Both of the instruments in my previous video (tweed deluxe and 63 330) sold immediately (to the same guy actually)…

Special thanks to Antonio at the Green Hills Apple Store Genius Bar for not completely ruining my afternoon today ….super sweet dude that is REALLY FUCKING GOOD at his job

June 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 657, Tom Bukovac, “Cigarette Burn Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Gibson SG
05:47 - Hello Rock 'n' Roll Enthusiasts / Wild West of parenting / Ken Burn stuff
07:31 - Forming of this country and the old days
09:18 - Question: "What year would you have chosen to be born?"
10:00 - Gregg Allman documentary (The Music of My Soul)
11:12 - Reese Wynans / Book: Sky Dog
13:02 - Question: "What Classic Rock band should you be in?"
14:43 - '65 Gibson SG ('64)
15:00 - Putting different tuners on a guitar / 99.9% it is bridge
17:15 - Denmark Street Guitars good story
19:08 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Tweed Deluxe
20:55 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '63 Gibson ES-330
21:16 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Tweed Deluxe


Notes
Uncle Larry offers up a few cool items for the garage sale

59 tweed deluxe 7500…local pickup only
63 es-330 chopped for old 60’s parent sticker humbucks 6K

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

June 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 656, Tom Bukovac, “Experimental Doink”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello
01:33 - Fender Telecaster and putting on flatwound 9's on it
03:35 - Music City Bridge Groove Master telly saddles
04:13 - Capo / Going to 9's and the super doink
12:45 - Guild S-200 Thunderbird
13:51 - Testing out for the first time
14:42 - Email about the "Uncle Larry Freeze" / Busting balls
22:33 - Plugging it in / Slamming it on table / Tuning
24:00 - Could not hate this any more than I do


Notes
Uncle Larry forges fearlessly ahead in the quest to experiment with new sounds.

June 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 647, Tom Bukovac, “The Ocean’s Abyss”

Chapters
00:00 - Messing with the EHX Oceans Abyss
01:15 - Hey, friends / EHX pedals
02:25 - LPB-3
05:18 - Oceans Abyss
11:51 - Straight into the amp and turning it up to 8
12:22 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Party director for kids
12:52 - "You'd have the best jam band ever"
14:24 - Keith Urban song "Just the Two of Us"
15:30 - Thanks


Notes
Uncle Larry mixes retro with modern in today’s episode of the Homeskoolin’ progrum.

Thanks to Mike Matthews and Kevin Jolly at EHX

and..totally unrelated…I bought an old basketweave Marshall 4x12 from Chicago Music yesterday….
they need it for the next two weeks for a video shoot they are doing
so, after the 25th of this month, it will need to be transported from Chicago to Nashville
If anyone is traveling that way please let me know

I would even be willing to set up a private guitar lesson to the picker who delivered it here

So, if you are indeed the type that likes to travel the open roads of this great country please email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

June 11th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 645, Tom Bukovac, “S**t That Works”

Chapters
00:00 - Delivering those old time tones
08:29 - Lesson: Cool technique - mute as you pick
09:36 - Good morning / Circling roomers and stalkers
11:15 - Lesson: C# minor - Flat 7 is Blues note
13:17 - Playing: Tony Iommi like licks / Swinging Iron Man
14:36 - Terry Kath and Pignose amp
16:00 - Keith Urban and Austrailians / Ebo Everb / Pool vacuum
21:58 - Remember when Fender made good guitars?


Notes
Uncle Larry braves some extreme bed head to deliver another faithful episode of the progrum.

June 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 643, Tom Bukovac, “The Black Stripes”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Stratocaster
02:24 - Playing and Singing: Frank Zappa - Dancing Fool / Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
04:57 - Hope everyone is doing great out there  :| / Frank Zappa / Skipping solos
07:40 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
09:17 - Intro to Ella Langley - Choosing Texas vs. Eddie Money - Tickets to Paradise
11:26 - "Why don't you make your own records?"
12:34 - Buckethead as a kid
13:53 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ugly hands, dick comment
15:17 - The Cliffs release
16:38 - '65 Fender Stratocaster Lake Placid Blue / Playing


Notes
710 horsepower
645 foot pounds of torque
2 miles to the gallon
About to be discontinued because police vehicles can’t catch them
The Hellcat

‘Merica


Here’s the CLIFFS album pre-save link friends
https://ffm.to/cliffs


remember these days friends?
lord i just happened upon this video yesterday...haven't seen it since we did that gig....what a flood of emotions about that whole chapter of my life wow

• Ann Wilson- “Crazy On You” 6/24/21 Hard Ro...

June 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 639, Tom Bukovac, “The New Music”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jazzmaster
06:21 - Hi, friends! / Pepe the dandruff boy
07:45 - Movies: The Lost Boys vs. Fight Club
08:17 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster
09:25 - "The New Wave" / Cocaine level in Nashville '80s
11:18 - Lesson: The Gallop
15:10 - Brandon Hood / Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
Uncle Larry kicks off today’s progrum with the lost new wave song from 1981…that he just made up 5 minutes before he rolled the camera

After a quick google I found the book…it was actually called “The New Music”…

Wow, what a distant memory…but it had a big effect on me as a kid

and TOTALLY unrelated, I somehow happened upon this old video last night , a rare rehearsal version of Nathaniel Rateliff singing an old Leon Russell tune beautifully…this was for some tribute concert we did years ago.

This version is way cooler than the “actual” version that ended up on the YouTube ..I love his voice on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEt2Gqn-gNQ

June 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Classic Plastic”

Chapters
00:00 - '63 Fender Stratocaster - Brandon Hood's instrument with plastic tuner buttons


Notes
Whatta ya think friends ? Original or not ?

June 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Some Light Garage Sale-ing”

Chapters
00:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Mustang
01:54 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Dean Cadillac
04:03 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '63 Fender Jazz Bass


Notes
Uncle Larry tarts out a few snazzy reasonably priced items for an early summer garage sale

Please email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want any of these instruments

Local pickup ALWAYS preferred friend …domestic US shipping only

May 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 638, Tom Bukovac, “Heavy Benchin’”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello friends / Sparkling water / Serial 4445
03:32 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
05:52 - Music City Bridge
07:13 - Marcus King & Dan Auerbach | Behind the Scenes with Rolling Stone (link)
11:30 - Alison Krauss
12:30 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior / Brandon Hood
15:26 - Nashville guy / Setting up the guitar / Fender Stratocaster


Notes
Here’s some long form bench content for the TRUE Homeskoolers out there…this is basically the Homeskoolin’ equivalent of reading “War And Peace”…
Maybe save this one for the next time you get a cold and you’ve got a few days to just lay around on the couch and watch 10 movies in a row

What you’ll see and hear if you DO stick around ….

You’ll see Larry changing out the original bridge on a lovely old 58 LP Junior, and you’ll get to hear that guitar play TRULY in tune for the first time in its life…after 68 years of faithful rock and roll service on this glorious planet

and… you’ll take an extensive tour through 3 very strident lovely sounding original pickups on a 1957 Stratocaster …and you’ll get to hear them played right next to the original pickups on a 65 LPB Stratocaster through the same amp

Hope you enjoy friends

May 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 637, Tom Bukovac, “Good Guitar Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Son playing the acoustic / Form 1 and Form 2 chords
06:19 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '57 Fender Stratocaster
09:30 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
You gotta admit, the boy has BEAUTIFUL guitar hands….literally born to play …13 years old and strong as an ox.

Thanks for watching friends ..the old Hornswaggler has sure enough been at it lately…buying and selling hard friends…keeping UPS and Fed Ex in business

Thanks for all the kind comments lately about the video that just came out of Marcus King and your favorite uncle throwin down on an old Allman Brothers classic …you guys all know how I feel about Marcus, he gives me hope for the future of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKFn2Qlmmc

if you are enjoying the progrum and feel like donating to the cause
my PayPal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

if you want to see some cool Homeskoolin t shirts check out www.humbuckermerch.com

May 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 635, Tom Bukovac, “Dad’s Old Amp”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Fender amps galore!
03:14 - Playing: the Jeff Senn into Blackface Vibrolux
06:33 - Playing: the Gretsch
08:05 - Light shock and playing with some players
09:00 - Session advice?


Notes
Tube amps are on their way out , haven’t you heard??

Well, not in this town…

Uncle Larry thought you guys might enjoy a quick gander at this lovely old 1966 Fender Vibrolux that he purchased recently from the Sutton family.

Bryan’s dad Jerry bought this amp AND the factory black 1959 Gibson ES-345 that you always see Keith Urban rocking out on, for 150.00 back in about 1968, in Asheville NC. (No I’m not kidding)

I owned that ES-345 for a while, I had it TOTALLY restored…the thing was a BASKET CASE when I first got it….literally in pieces.

Greg Voros did all the extensive restoration work on it….when it was done it turned out AMAZING.

Even though I loved it , I could tell it wasn’t MY guitar…I sold it to Keith and it has literally been his personal favorite guitar for about 10 years now .

Old guitars are cool….you’re cool

May 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 634, Tom Bukovac “Blind Lemon Delta Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away on the Tele
03:23 - Hello / Berry Hill and Music Row
04:50 - Lesson: Playing like a sharecropper from the Delta
05:55 - Thanks about vintage guitar video
07:10 - Gus's buddies and PAFs
08:30 - Rascal Flatts / Driving guitar riff and being in tune
10:38 - Lesson: It is the way your playing it
11:50 - Lesson: Don't put yourself too loud / Study body language
16:46 - Demo made by A.I. and not being cool
18:42 - '59 Fender Stratocaster chopper for sale


Notes
Uncle Larry, fresh home from a session, gives ya some pretty damn important recording tips.

The 1000 Pound Sisters were filming a TV show in the studio next to ours today …I was very excited to meet them and take a photo

Sweet gals, big music fans too

May 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 624, Tom Bukovac, “Murray Olderman Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that maple cap Blonde Tele
04:27 - Hello, friends!
04:56 - Lesson: 1 chord Easy Listening rhythm with infinite
07:28 - Playing: Strange bending
09:30 - Music City Bridge saddles
11:08 - Freak out with a theremin
12:38 - Acoustic and baked potatoes
14:55 - Music City Bridge saddles
17:44 - Ad for YouTube


Notes
Uncle Larry gets way deep into the science of baked potatoes and guitar bridge saddles

THIS is where you need to be today friends

For your tele AND your Strat

If you buy these….THEN you’ll be happy
https://musiccitybridge.com/products/groove-master-strat-saddles

May 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 621, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 4”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
02:50 - Hello, friends / Happy Mother's Day
03:23 - '64 Fender Jaguar Lake Placid Blue
03:33 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster Blonde
03:44 - '68 Fender Mustang Orange
04:42 - Jazzmaster
05:14 - Jazzmaster free-floating vibrato system
05:40 - Jazzmaster switch, preset volume, preset tone
08:00 - Playing: Jazzmaster
09:04 - Jazzmaster bridge
09:37 - Jazzmaster neck
10:19 - Mustang
10:50 - Mustang switches / Out-of-phase sound
12:18 - Playing: Mustang
12:48 - Mustang bridge
13:31 - Jaguar / Jaguar switches
14:05 - Playing: Jaguar
16:19 - Summation


Notes
Happy Mother’s Day dear Homeskoolers …hope you enjoy this trip through Fender’s offset line-up in the 60’s…when surf was king and when droves of perfectly healthy young American boys were being shipped off to strange foreign lands to fight a war that no one understood.

And totally unrelated….if you haven’t seen the movie “The Sound Of Metal” yet on Amazon worldwide streaming…do yourself a favor

May 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 620, Tom Bukovac, “Eastbound And Broke”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See on the new Tele
02:46 - Numerous names
04:00 - '65 Fender Telecaster with maple cap neck / Playing / Music City Bridge saddles
08:08 - Playing: Tele Custom
09:47 - Playing: Back to the Maple
11:58 - New '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
14:56 - Imitation Tom / Guitar shipping boxes


Notes
Uncle Larry gives the class a tour through some exciting new arrivals in the Spring Collection.

Special thanks to Rick Hogue from Garrett Park guitars for a very smooth transaction on a super fuckin’ rad old Tele.

If I don’t stop him Marshall will eat 10 bananas in one day like nothing .

May 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 619, Tom Bukovac, “The Rush”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Lake Placid Blue
01:36 - Hello dear friends / #1 dad
04:06 - Love slop :|
05:02 - UPS and vultures
05:49 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Selling the Les Pauls
06:52 - Daredevil accident eBike
08:04 - Acoustic saddles
09:11 - Muscle memory vs. Theory / Depends on previous note
11:40 - Lesson: E7 - cool notes out - bend 5th to 6th / Playing
13:11 - Bought a cool maple cap tele
13:47 - Lesson: Creepy delay with cool effect


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a stroll on a sweet old transition logo Fender …through an old Fender amp from the same year

I think of it as “transitional tone” that was available in any real music store in America in 1965, just as Leo was being asked to step down and take a 10 year break from building anything with the no compete clause that the CBS suits so wisely put in the contract when they bought the second best guitar company in American history

and...here is the most interesting interview in country music history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0uSj6eA714

and...this guy gets it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/un1i4m6K_X4

if you guys wanna donate to the cause of keeping country music country, please consider throwing something in the old tip jar...to potentially pay for e-bike related ER trips and black vulture removal

Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
Paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬

April 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important!  :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)


Notes
The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.

I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate

April 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 605, Tom Bukovac, “I Wanna Hold Your Man”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
03:48 - Good morning, dear friends
05:20 - Lesson: Beatles move
07:40 - Awards in school
08:32 - Fender Jaguar / Mutes
09:00 - Playing: The Kinks - Lola
10:00 - Guitar Dreams in Scotland / World Traveling / Produce record in Norway / Police
13:24 - Music City Gibson Southern Jumbo sold / Fender Telecaster
14:25 - Vintage guitar affordable / Walmart to pillaging the world / Buying and selling houses


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a break from re-watching Sabrina Carpenter’s “House Tour” video for just long enough to make a new episode of the progrum.

Here’s the link for the Guitar Dreams thing in Scotland friends
https://www.guitardreams.co.uk/guitar...