March 23rd, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Session Update “The Crested Wave”
Chapters00:00 - Session peak into gear of "The Struts"
01:56 - Bukovac rig
02:53 - Bass rig
03:08 - Drum kit
03:35 - Keys room
04:13 - Amp room / Smell
07:06 - Rehearsal with The Struts
Notes
March 22, 2023…east iris studio in Nashville
Starring
Julian “Mr. Raymond” Raymond
Eric “Ebo” Borash
The Struts
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March 22nd, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 202, Tom Bukovac, "Act Like You've Been There Before"
Chapters00:00 - Sunny morning playing
02:15 - Hello fellow Rock 'n' Roll enthusiasts
02:45 - Joe Cocker and "Moon Dust"
05:00 - ' 62 Stratoblaster / Spaghetti logo
05:35 - Middle pickup in a Stratocaster
06:16 - Chess videos
06:30 - Bragging on click-bait videos / Do your thing rant
07:57 - The Struts / Rock 'n' Roll cats and magic
10:15 - Bragging about profession...never talk about it
11:53 - Contrary motion
12:10 - Tuning
12:27 - Playing: Working your way up and down the fretboard
14:18 - Lesson: Working your way up and down the fretboard
14:55 - Lesson: Chord that makes you seem you know what you are doing [x x 5 4 2 2]
15:52 - Guthrie Trapp and his playing
Notes
An early morning slab board and coffee infused rant from your weird old uncle.
March 21st, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "Mad Dogs And Clevelanders"
Chapters00:00 - Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker / Tom Bukovac Rendition)
03:20 - All time favorite tunes / Howya going mate!
03:55 - "Mad Dog with Soul" (Joe Cocker documentary)
04:20 - The Struts (Session project)
05:00 - Watch Delta Lady from live performance of "Mad Dog with Soul"
Notes
Uncle Larry waxes rhapsodic about one of the greatest voices to ever step up to a microphone....and the great convergence of England and Tulsa.
March 17th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “And You’re With??….”
Chapters00:00 - In the sessions fun
Notes
A quick session update from the final day of tracking for the record Guthrie and myself are making
Starring
Steve Mackey
Brandon Bell
Lester Estelle
Guthrie Trapp
Brook Sutton
Uncle Larry
Hey guys there are still a few of those 200 limited edition signed 200th episode prints left at
www.ziggysartstudio.com
Check one out if you feel that feeling…
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March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 201, Tom Bukovac, "Pedalmania!!"
Chapters00:00 - Some raunchy guitar
01:45 - Hi, friends! / Many videos and thanks
03:20 - Gear review demo / Pedal nuisance
05:30 - Empress - Compressor / Greer - Black Mountain / Eastside Music Supply - Brown Amplification Atom / Coppersound Killswitch
08:00 - Base sound (amp and reverb)
09:00 - Brown Amplification Atom
10:15 - Black Mountain Crunch Drive / Lightspeed
13:20 - Proud of this channel and Positive energy
13:55 - Roger Mayer Voodoo
14:30 - Compressor
17:10 - Killswitch
Notes
Uncle Larry makes an exception to his long standing rule of not doing gear demos on his channel....by the way...it's Friday in my mind.
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' VOLUME 200!!!! "A Special Treat"
Chapters00:00 - Intro 200th episode / Pacifico and wine
03:08 - Homeskoolin' thanks / Dann Huff as a producer
06:18 - Collaboration and dictatorship / No right way to finish line
12:24 - Moment knew when making big
15:45 - Dann's take on guitar tone
18:00 - Dann bought Tom's pedalboard
18:53 - No greatest tone / Leslie West story
21:00 - Van Halen (tuning)
23:15 - Midrange / Small guitar tones
27:00 - Cool Dann story (Van Halen)
30:50 - Bass content with guitars
34:00 - Most genious overdubbing
35:50 - Great guitar tones / Billy Gibbons stories and Guthrie Trapp
38:19 - Great tones continued / Billy Gibbons - Jesus Just Left Chicago
41:16 - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
43:08 - 50% more distortion / Distortion and guitar
47:22 - Marshall Plexi tone / Foreigner - Hot Blooded / Greatest power chord Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
53:45 - Roxy Music - Love is the Drug solo
55:55 - That one note of Steely Dan
58:10 - Cooper Time Cube - 100 ft of garden hose (doubling effect) / Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
63:10 - Steve Miller Band
Notes
One of my favorite humans on this planet
Sweet Dann Huff
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "Fat Cowboy"
Chapters00:00 - Slow cowboy pluckin'
06:38 - Lesson: Target note | Ending note
07:35 - Lesson: Lower frets focus / Chords (BbMaj7, [1 1 0 2 x x]), (Fm6, [1 3 0 1 x x]), (E, [4 2 2 1 x x])
Notes
Here's how you get cowboy chords to sound fat as hell.
All your friends will be amazed at the next camp fire.
Oh and good morning
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March 15th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Scenes From A Wednesday”
Chapters00:00 - Editing in the studio
01:23 - Chatting with the man Billy Gibbons
02:10 - Driving through a hydrant, HA!
Notes
Fun day today friends…getting close to finishing this little record i am making with Guthrie….it really should be illegal to have as much fun as we have been having the past few days.
A day of legends…getting to hear Paul Franklin burn it up on a little number i made up in my lonely kitchen is one for the memory books…
and then the Reverend came by for a bit this afternoon and we were all talking about potential names for this project GT and I are doing…which naturally turned into me asking him how he came up with that name you might have heard of called “ZZ Top” (partially captured here)
I also threw in a somewhat surreal moment from the drive in to work this morning
Thanks for watching guys
March 14th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 199.5, Tom Bukovac, "Municipal Stadium Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Little light playing with feedback
02:44 - Just ole Larry Bukovac / Bob Feller
04:35 - 1940 National New Yorker
06:24 - Bobby Gatewood
07:09 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Best record no one's every heard - I am Shelby Lynne
08:09 - "Uncle Larry"??
09:08 - Terrible writing blues / Sweep picking
09:44 - Log of all the sessions?
11:45 - Starting your own cult? / Koolaid
12:30 - Special 200th episode (Special guest?)
13:00 - Lesson: Cool chord E add 6 9 / tablature: [0 9 6 6 9 0]
Notes
Uncle Larry tries to put out several blazing hot VCB fires in one swell foop....whilst relying slightly less than usual on "the corporate eye"...
totally unrelated....this melody is so satisfying to me...it checks all the boxes of pleasing harmony and time in my brain...
March 14th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "Super Echo Twin"
Chapters00:00 - Jamming away on the Silvertone
02:35 - '64 Ampeg Super Echo Twin ET2
Notes
You gotta admit...people really knew how to name shit back in the 50's and 60's...
I mean..."super echo twin"...how bad ass is that???
Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster
Vibrolux and Tremolux
Think about what Ford was coming up with:
Ford Galaxie 500...Mustang...Falcon....Fairlane
and then there was
Chevy:
Camaro (which a lot of people don't realize is a little used Spanish word for "friend")
Impala....Corvette...Nomad....
AMC Rambler
Buick Skylark
Pontiac Tempest and GTO with fuckin' Tri-Power Ram Air
Plymouth Barracuda and Fury
Dodge Coronet with a goddamn Hemi Six Pack
I'm talking some bad ass names for some seriously awesome shit right here people.
Airstream
Chris Craft
You get what i'm saying.....
or maybe it was just that all the cool names weren't already taken back in those days.
Now we have "Veloster"..."Tiguan"...."Prius"..."Swift"
We are doomed
and totally unrelated...
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