February 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 280, Tom Bukovac, “Twang Newton”

Chapters
00:00 - Twanging
05:30 - Good morning / Flatwounds on the Duesenberg Danelectro
06:45 - Click bait videos
07:00 - New rented gear has no "danger" / Old pickups vs. new
08:08 - "Bent out of shape" guy "coming in hot!" - Pitch correction content
11:00 - Click bait != hot chicks / "Sounds good" compliment
11:45 - 99% of tone is in your hands / 1% in gear is very important / Inspiration factor
13:28 - Red Gibson Firebird I
14:10 - T-Shirt drawer and how many t-shirts
14:35 - We are here for the content
14:52 - Fender Tweed Deluxe / With mic
16:10 - Getting old / Old crappy equipment looks good / MIJ Fender Strat
17:35 - Japanese Tele with Van Zant
18:49 - Blackguard Teles
19:57 - Pitch correction on Rolling Stones record?


Notes
Uncle Larry, sans click bait, with some early mornin’ flat wound twang served up Southern style on a cheapo guitar…

February 27th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 194, Tom Bukovac, "The Unseen World"

Chapters
00:00 - Some plucking around
01:30 - Hello, everyone!
03:11 - Senn guitar
03:22 - Paper or plastic / "Save the planet"
04:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / '60 Tweed Princeton / Strat and pickups
05:54 - Lynyrd Skynyrd thanks
06:25 - New pre-scribers / Rotten apples and hiding users
07:23 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 Hollowbody Doubleneck / Story
10:54 - East Ohio thanks
11:36 - Lesson: Tablature chord Dmin7 / "Instant Larry"
12:51 - Shameless plug
14:25 - Outro playing


Notes

Monday morning coffee talk and VCB with Larry.

link to COMFY HOMESKOOLIN MERCH

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link to TRIP THE WITCH CD's and T SHIRTS

https://shop.bandwear.com/tripthewitch

and our boy ziggy at ziggysartstudio.com has a little something special planned to commemorate the 200th Homeskoolin' episode

and totally unrelated.....as ludicrous as this is....i GUARANTEE you won't be able to stop watching it til the end

February 18th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 192, Tom Bukovac, "The Limitations Of Incarnation"

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic jamming
04:18 - It's Larry / Rig Rundown
05:10 - Long session
05:42 - Tuning and playing
06:48 - Hillbilly b7?
09:03 - Loose and limber hands
09:49 - Willie Nelson is NOT dead / Stories about mother
14:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Acoustic guitar and scratches
15:19 - Derek Trucks / Derek Trucks story
16:45 - Beating the hell out of an instrument / Dynamics
17:50 - Burt Bacharach
19:30 - Otis Gibbs
19:53 - Smoke some weed / Rick / Beer
21:42 - Why are we here? / Life


Notes
If you like the ones where Larry just rambles on and on...well...then this one is for YOU

February 10th, 2023

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Raunch Dressing”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin finger pickin / Full-blown rock
03:22 - '60 Fender Tweed Princeton
04:00 - Pedalboard look
04:27 - 80's Super Champ
04:50 - '63 Gibson SG


Notes
Hello friends….contact me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want the 63 SG (11.5k) or the Super Champ (1400.00)

Gonna be a week or so until the Super Champ is ready to go (unless you fix amps yourself)…it has a noisy tube that i would like to have fixed before i sell it.

Larry don’t sell no bullshit.

Buyer must pick up in person. Cash deals only. No shipping….unless of course there wa$ $ome kind of con$iderable incentive to do $o.....

February 9th, 2023

Homeskoolin’ “EXTREMELY Rare and Unexpected Gear Related Bonus Video”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / Mini-humbuckers vs. Firebird pickups
01:25 - Mini-humbucker, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Les Paul)
02:36 - Firebird pickup, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Firebird)
03:30 - What do we notice? / Differences
04:06 - Nobels & Firebird pickup
05:00 - Nobels & Mini-humbucker


Notes
Your dear uncle shines some light on the age old comparison between “firebird pickups” and “regular mini humbuckers” as they are known on the street.

so...what do YOU hear dear Homeskoolers??

Test notes:
a) both guitars tuned down a half step and outfitted with only the finest roundwound strings.

b) a 1954 fender tweed deluxe vacuum tube amplifier and a no-balls odr-1 overdrive pedal were used as a control.

November 10th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 172, Tom Bukovac, “The Shingles”

Chapters
00:00 - Down home playing on the 335
01:27 - Hello, Homeskoolers' / Joe Walsh
02:30 - Roofing guys / Boone Whitaker at Whitaker Roofing / Finding good people
04:30 - Strat magic stuff
05:00 - Gig announcement / Plexi Soul / Fronting own band
06:20 - Gibson 335 & '59 Fender Tweed Deluxe / Playing
08:12 - Oz Noy
08:50 - Gig


Notes
Write it down kids

When?
Dec 20th 2022

Where?
3rd and Lindsley

What?
Larry playing his own shit with a cookin' little combo

Any special guests?
yes, but i'm not allowed to tell you exactly who...however i can tell you that their initials are Jedd Hughes and Guthrie Trapp

If you ever need a roofer that is NOT a criminal trying to completely rip you off, then call this guy... Boone Whitaker at Whitaker Roofing in Murfreesboro TN 615-424-1622.... Tell him you are a Homeskooler…after that, everything is gonna be smoother than Telly Savales’s head...he's a good guy and they do excellent work.

August 29th, 2021

Homeskoolin’ Volume 110, Tom Bukovac, “Unclelectric Larryland”

Chapters
00:00 - Bad ass intro jam / Come On
02:00 - Hello, class!
02:58 - Stressful morning / Leo (son) sick
03:25 - Cover tune / Jimi doing Earl
04:42 - '60 Strat / Tuned down to Eb
05:07 - The Gear Page / Thin Lipped Cups
05:52 - Trip the Witch / Jon Anderson
07:30 - Viewer Comment Bin / Football
07:52 - Best 5 guitar amplifiers
09:01 - Direct box
09:42 - Bus story and sense of humor
10:52 - Roland BeeBaa Fuzz
11:31 - Top 5 Worst Guitar Inventions / Thanks
12:45 - EHX Frequency Analyzer


Notes
A brief chat on many things, including hurricanes, tunings, pedals, and people who are NOT fun to hang out with at parties.

Homeskoolin merch available at www.guitarhouse.net
Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo tip jar is @Tom-Bukovac-1

December 5th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 81, Tom Bukovac, “Up The Neck”

Chapters
00:00 - Rock intro lick jam
03:09 - Hello, class!
05:20 - VCB / Wintertime guitar storage
07:54 - Miracle pedalboard sound
08:43 - Session effects switching
11:09 - Bad Company - Shooting Star / Dark sound lesson
12:48 - Back and forth between chords / Adding thumb bass note


Notes
A brief chat on tone, a rarely seen in nature bent note finger tap, and a look at “putting out fires” on your pedalboard.

Oh...and thanks to all the class members who came to Uncle Larry’s defense yesterday in the VCB when our old joyless buddy Mr. Fizz flat out insulted my dear wife. Fizzy was promptly “pinned to the wall of mockery” (as your dear classmate Danny pointed out) and subsequently fizzed out somethin’ terrible.

Love to all...happy Saturday lads

PayPal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com
T shirts and mugs available at www.guitarhouse.net

September 21st, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 70, Tom Bukovac, “Fall Is Here!!!!!”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful, bluesy intro
03:17 - Hello, class!
04:13 - Rare edit (Pro-Reverb problem)
04:20 - Viewer Comment Bin / Busy
05:00 - Dirty Mary Crazy Larry movie
05:28 - Co-host w/ Michael Palmisano
06:06 - Musician and engineer relationtionship?
08:30 - Ron Ellis pickups / Gibson Les Paul
09:55 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale (Echoplex)
11:18 - Fender Tweed Deluxe / E Blues lesson


Notes
https://youtu.be/wjDJL57ofY4 - Check out this cool table.

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T shirts and mugs available at www.guitarhouse.net

April 17th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 9, Tom Bukovac, “Blues & Dank Nugs”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro jam loop
03:11 - Welcome the lovely day
04:11 - Viewer Comment Bin
04:30 - Talk about gear
05:26 - Billards / gear
06:11 - Love of the 335
08:27 - Replacement stoptail LP Special
10:25 - Sarah Buxton songs
11:21 - Stop gear buying?
12:35 - Hard-ass attitude
13:13 - Trust people / pain
14:08 - T-shirts
15:16 - Marijuana use
17:17 - Two chords lesson


Notes
Two chords and a brief chat on weed.