October 21st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Clevelandia”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

October 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Telescopic End Pin”

Chapters
00:00 - 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."

October 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Diamond Head”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Harmonirific exploring


Notes
Uncle Larry soars through the ether on nature’s neck pickup on this beautiful fall Sunday

October 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 720, Tom Bukovac, “Gilbert O’ Grape”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again
01:12 - Hey friends! / Cleveland trip
04:07 - Gilbert O'Sullivan
05:00 - Alone Again in the key of F#, changing it to G
05:47 - Beatles - She's Leaving Home ("...in the wrong key" / Original key)
07:11 - Lesson: Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Gmaj7 [3 x 4 4 3 x] -> G6 [3 x 2 4 3 x] -> Bm7 [7 9 7 7 7 x] -> E7 [x 7 6 7 5 x] -> Am7 [ 5 7 5 5 5 x] -> D7b9 [x 5 4 5 4 x])
15:20 = "Milky PAFs on this '59 Mono ES-355
15:53 - Small dirt bike for son


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya how to play a very cool tune

Use some of these old Western swing changes in your writing

Let’s bring back chords friends

Check out this cool link that 8 million of my friends have sent me today
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DemVwG...

October 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “A Taste Of Cleveland”

Chapters
00:00 - Pignose 30/60
00:58 - Gibson Falcon
01:06 - Kallamazoo Reverb 12
01:27 - Orange Crush Bass 100


Notes
Stuff from the back of the truck

October 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Trip The Witch Vinyl”

Chapters
00:00 - Signing some new swag


Notes
The new signed vinyl LPs are coming soon people!!
Pay no mind that it says "sold out" on the link

Happy fall friends…Uncle Larry is burns through a cuppla thick black sharpies signing his life away for all you vinyl lovers out there

I am still EXTREMELY proud of this little record I made with Dean DeLeo that we put out a few years ago.
Aside from being the incredible musician we have always known him to be , Dean is absolutely one of the kindest sweetest most thoughtful humans I have ever encountered on this journey through 57 years in music

It was SUCH a joy to make this record, and I think that joy comes through on the tracks

As per request we printed up 500 new signed vinyls what will be available shortly through this site
https://linktr.ee/TripTheWitch?utm_so...

October 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Cleveland Gold”

Chapters
00:00 - Description says it all!
02:14 - Timeless Guitars
02:46 - Jar in C#
02:57 - '70 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop


Notes
Just a quick look at the lovely Airbnb me and the boys are staying at for this little fall break vacation we are on.

Nice place and a nice guy that runs it

I might need to get in the Airbnb business…I could do that ….
"Ok sir, you just need to type in this code on the front door to get in, there’s towels on the bed"

Maybe I’ll buy a few houses and start in on that