YouTube Channel
October 25th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Finally…A Guy Who Can Fix Cool Old Broken Pedals"
Chapters00:00 - Yann (Body and Soul)
01:57 - Electro Harmonix (EHX) - Electric Mistress
04:27 - EHX power switch / Electro Harmonix (EHX) - Big Muff Pi
Notes
You’re not gonna believe this friends, I actually found a guy who can fix cool old broken pedals ….his name is Yann Ly, he’s a super cool dude, and he has already saved my ass a couple times.
He has his own company called Body And Soul that makes cool big muffs and Marshall Supa-Fuzz recreations …
He said it’s cool if i give you guys his Instagram, but he told me upfront he only wants to work on cool old stuff…please don’t ask him to fix your Behringer headphone amp...that part is IMPERATIVE
Here’s his Instacart :
/ bsinstruments
Here’s his email friends
Jesuisyann@gmail.com
if you guys like that t shirt i was wearing in yesterday's progrum, check out this website
www.humbuckermerch.com
some dead cool British shit on there for yo' ass
also....if your life is being improved by these videos, please consider visiting the class tip jar.
Uncle Larry has Paypal....
tombukovac@gmail.com
AND Uncle Larry has Venmo...
@Tom-Bukovac-1
EVERY little bit helps and encourages Uncle Larry to keep providing this service.
October 24th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Should We Plug Straight In To The Amp?”
Chapters00:00 - To pedal or not to pedal?
02:35 - Test setup
03:30 - Part A
04:09 - Part B
04:49 - Part C
05:24 - Part D
Notes
Contrary to public opinion, for many many years, Uncle Larry has been saying that as long as you use the RIGHT pedals, there is almost zero difference between going through a large system of modern pedals in bypass mode and plugging the guitar straight in to the amp .
In this heavily produced and carefully edited four part video I will show four examples….A B C and D.
On two of these four examples I am plugged straight into the amp, and on the other two of them are going through a million pedals in bypass made and about 50 extra feet of high impedance cable.
Can you tell the difference?
and if there IS a difference , please note that I could engage any one of these pedal and get it right back in two seconds …and then have a million cool sounds at my disposal
October 23rd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 723, Tom Bukovac, “Tube Amps Are Dead…..Not”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Strumming the Gibson and Martin
02:00 - Howya doing out there? / NFL
04:21 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Love doing nothing
04:57 - "Ever retire?" / Sliding
05:58 - Larry Bird was a badd ass
06:20 - "That was cool [lick]"
07:07 - Stringlocker / Homeskoolin' Bay
08:00 - Gibson J-35 / V-neck
10:36 - "Total dick comment" / Learning without YouTube
16:27 - Joe Bonamassa modeling amp / Buy an old Fender Deluxe Reverb
18:57 - "Tund Down, Tune Out"
Notes
Uncle Larry Bird plays the same riff on two different 30’s flat tops built by fairly well known manufacturers…and gets into some heavy VCB….
October 22nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 722, Tom Bukovac, “Slabs And Banners”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Acoustic
02:26 - Hi, friends / Lesson:Dmaj7 [0 0 4 6 7 5] NFL
03:47 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / More playing and less talking / Old men eat breakfast together
06:30 - "What pick Larry?" / Strings
07:10 - Larry Bird (basketball player) stories
09:20 - Producers are looking for the musicians to play amazing on their own
11:30 - '43 Gibson Banner Head J-45
12:40 - "Where's StringLocker!?"
13:22 - "Princeton Reverb with a 12?"
14:16 - Wood resonating and staying in tune / Wood and actual sound of guitar :|
16:32 - "Scarves and volume swells" / The Guitarist Way: "Play what you like and bash everyone else"
18:10 - '60 Fender Precision Bass
Notes
Uncle Larry answers some poignant VCB and shows the class some wartime wood p**sy, from
the glory days of Kalamazoo and some early Fullerton slab board madness…
October 21st, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Clevelandia”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Some amazing acrobatics on the fretboard
Notes
Uncle Larry runs through an entire library of chord shapes guitars players instinctively avoid ….because hardly any guitars are intonated well enough to actually get away with any of these…
October 20th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Firestripe Theatre”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Gibson acoustic
Notes
Never judge a book by its cover friends …sometimes the ugliest wallflowers are the ones that end up giving ya a hand job in the stationery closet…
Most sane people would walk right by this old 41 J-35 if they saw it somewhere…but it’s got the magic in it
TAGS
October 20th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Telescopic End Pin”
Chapters00:00 - Badd ass bass from early 50's
01:00 - "Crazy ass pickup"
01:28 - Brown knobs
02:25 - "i" on the Gibson
03:10 - Discussion
Notes
Greg Voros and Tony Nagy from Gruhn Guitars show the class a really cool and rare old bass…the Gibson EB-1…introduced in 1953 and designed to be able to be held upright and played like a stand up bass with the use of it’s revolutionary telescopic end pin.
I did a little googlin' after we made this video and it turns out I was correct about this being Gibson’s direct answer to the Precision bass that was introduced two years earlier…which was the first fretted electric bass ever made (thus the name “precision” bass)
See friends, Uncle Larry doesn’t ALWAYS talk out his ass.
There were just over 500 of these made in its initial run from 53 to 58.
Here's what the google said about this cool instrument from the era when the greatest guitar company in the history of mankind was simply pissing greatness.
"The first production fretted electric bass built by Gibson was the Gibson EB-1, originally introduced in 1953 (initially called simply the "Electric Bass" before being renamed the EB-1 in 1958).
Key Details of the Gibson EB-1
• Release Year: 1953 (designed as Gibson's direct answer to Fender's 1951 Precision Bass).
• Body Style: Solid mahogany shaped like a miniature violin or upright double bass, complete with painted "fake" f-holes and pinstriping.
• Scale Length: Short-scale 30.5 inches.
• Neck & Fretboard: Set mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard featuring frets and dot inlays.
• Special Feature: Included a retractable endpin so musicians could play it upright like an acoustic double bass or horizontally like a standard guitar.
• Pickup: A single neck-position sidewinder/single-coil pickup designed by Walter Fuller and Seth Lover.
• Production: Only 105 units were made during its initial launch year in 1953."
TAGS
October 20th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Diamond Head”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Fingerpicking loop
Notes
Some heavily altered blooze for the late night crowd
Heavy meddle
Hope you enjoy friends
October 19th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 721, Tom Bukovac, “The Vintage Lie”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Soaring, clashing chords
02:58 - Good morning, dear class! / Hanging onto the '70 Goldtop
04:25 - '70 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (before Norland)
07:52 - Some guitars want to be in tune (combination of woods?)
09:32 - Instruments for sale with Greg Voros / NFL
11:59 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Rare items that you have owned?" (one of the first Marshalls, Fender Blackface, etc.)
15:30 - "Hey Larry, [taboo saying]" / Silly things (locks on cases, mini pedals, modeling)
17:50 - "Didn't understanding pedals when I was a kid" / Roland Jazz Chorus, Marshall, Peavy (soundman nightmare)
20:07 - Work on some Fender Strats
21:28 - '65 Fender Stratocaster
Notes
Did you think this was gonna be another one of those videos that broke fruitcake guitar owners make about "the vintage lie" or the "vintage myth"?
Oh how they love to "debunk"…they just debunk and debunk their lives away.
Professional debunkers just going around debunking everything while they lay in their bunk beds down in their bunkers, while Archie Bunker plays on the TV set down the hall in their mom’s room.
All day long just bunking on things …bunk bunk bunk…bunk bunk bunk
Well it’s not
October 18th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Test Tube Romance”
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Harmonirific exploring
Notes
Uncle Larry soars through the ether on nature’s neck pickup on this beautiful fall Sunday