June 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “A Guitar You Can Grow Old With”

Chapters
00:00 - 000-18 for sale


Notes
Here’s a sweet one for you guys

A nice straight 1942 Martin OOO-18 that my dear friend Brandon Hood owns

All there except a non original case

20k plus shipping

If you wanna take a shot at this one email me at tombukovac@gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with Brandon

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
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my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

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May 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 636, Tom Bukovac, “The Harsh Truth About Being Uncle Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Rickenbacker
02:33 - Hello / Pepe the dandruff attendant
03:30 - '59 Rickenbacker 360 Capri with work by Greg Voros
05:07 - James Burkett - Harmony Sovereign
07:09 - "Harsh Truth..." / Nashville difference between now and then
09:10 - Word of mouth is the only way / Son interruption / Rate of pay the same
10:56 - True story: Paying band members
14:30 - Playing: Pink Floyd - Hey You
15:27 - Hot movie recommendations
16:09 - Thanks and James Burkett
17:27 - Duesneberg at Gruhn's Guitars


Notes
I just wanted to try doing one of these “harsh truth” clickbait titles that everyone is doing now, just to see if this video would get a zillion views…the harsh truth is that it probably won’t.

the ACTUAL truth is that i'm just checkin' in to show you guys the INCREDIBLE restoration work that dear Greg Voros did on my trusty old '59 Ricky Capri 360, and also show you one of the amazing acoustic guitars that James Burkett in Dothan Alabama builds for way too cheap....whilst concluding with a quick but effective tour of the recently added "Duesenberg Wing" at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN.

Co-starring, Cory Terrell, Emmett Rozelle and young Marshall Bukovac.

stay tuned and stick around if you happen to be into bad ass old golden era Gibson and Fender guitars my friends...ol' Uncle Larry's got some top shelf freshly hornswaggled grade A 100 % wood pussy to show y'all real soon....i got a feelin' you're gonna like it

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 25th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 633, Tom Bukovac, “PAF Fury”

Chapters
00:00 - It's all in the description / Cycling through some guitars
00:32 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235
00:58 - '59 Gibson ES-335
01:24 - '60 Gibson ES-335
01:51 - '61 Gibson Les Paul
02:24 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
03:00 - '64 Reissue Murphy Lab with special pickups from Spain
04:30 - '64 Reissue Murphy Lab with special pickups from Spain
05:04 - '61 Gibson Les Paul
05:25 - '59 Gibson ES-335
06:12 - '60 Gibson ES-335
06:40 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
07:17 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235
09:00 - Thoughts / Neck pickups '58 Gibson EMS 1235
10:49 - '59 Gibson ES-335 neck
11:25 - '60 Gibson ES-335 neck
11:56 - '61 Gibson Les Paul neck
12:36 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom neck
13:22 - '64 Reissue Murphy Lab with special pickups from Spain neck ("the blue thing")
15:38 - Acoustically shootout
20:50 - Princeton amp and pedalboard used


Notes
Hello friends…a small army of guitar lovers gathered tonite at Uncle Larry’s Sanctuary to drink a couple beers and reminisce about the good old days.

This episode features young Eddie Blacksmith (aka Eddie Haddad)….young Ben Brandt (aka the boy with the good “scrong”) …and Ford Thurston (aka Fordy Ounce) …as well as a fairly large cache of golden era humbuckers (and even a couple modern pickups) framed inside some delightful dry aged lightweight Honduran hog for your viewing and listening pleasure

Our dear Fordy had a pretty solid buzz on, so he elected not play and only listen to the evening’s proceedings…

Granted, it may be a little challenging at times to make out what he’s saying, but I think you’ll find his tonal observations to be pretty spot on, despite his rather “relaxed” state of consciousness.

Hope you enjoy yet another crazy day in the life of your old buddy from northeast Ohio.

May 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 632.5, Tom Bukovac, “Tough Guy Bends (Part 2)”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Guild S-200 Thunderbird without going out of tune
04:00 - Iannuci Audio clone pedal vs. ODR-1


Notes
A brief addendum to this morning’s Homeskoolin’ curriculum for extra credit

the pedal i am trying is made by Iannucci
https://www.iannucciaudio.com/en-intl/home

May 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 632, Tom Bukovac, “Tough Guy Bends”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Guild T-bird
03:57 - Hello, class! / Special guitar
05:15 - Guild pickup in the drawer / '68 Les Paul / Thanks for Gill video
07:14 - Guitar going out of tune because of the nut
10:00 - Nut files
12:00 - Being at Gruhn's
19:64 - '48 Martin D-18


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya some cool shit on a Sunday….including how to bend like a tough guy

This old Guild S-200 was perfect when I first got it back from Greg Voros, but the nut slots started binding up, so I wanted to show you how to address that problem

This guy is cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCR8SYLmAY

May 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 631, “How To REALLY Tune A Guitar By Ear” with Vince Gill

Chapters
00:00 - Martin D-18 and intro to video
02:44 - Gruhn's guitars hanging / Vince Gill tunes guitar
08:00 - George Gruhn weighs in / Guitar 2 tuning
12:00 - Difference tuning makes on chords
14:06 - "No note"
15:07 - Jack Schneider and a '57 Martin 000-28 original acoustic
16:47 - '26 45


Notes
It was damn hard not to title this video “Tuggin’ It With Vince and Larry”, but i somehow resisted the urge.

Vince Gill, George Gruhn, Greg Voros and young Jack Schneider join the class for today’s fun at the greatest guitar store on planet earth, Gruhn Guitars in Nashville TN

Any man with half a brain knows that, right next to hitting a 102 MPH fast ball, tuning a guitar by ear is one of the hardest things in this world to do…correctly

Special thanks to Vince for showing us HOW to do it …
special thanks to Nathan Golliher for the beautiful restoration work he did on this sweet old 48 Shade Top D-18…
special thanks to George Gruhn for creating such an amazing environment for guitar lovers to thrive in way back in 1970 …
and special thanks to Greg Voros for being the coolest dude that has ever lived.

May 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 630, “Real 59 Tweed Deluxe versus New Dumble Tweedle-Dee”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / '56 Gibson Les Paul Jr
00:45 - '59 Fender Tweed Deluxe vs. Dumble Tweedle D intro / '56 Gibson Les Paul Jr and original case
01:49 - Settings on Tweed Deluxe
02:51 - Playing: Tweed
03:53 - Turn guitar to 7 and get acoustic sound
04:25 - Music City Bridge
05:15 - Black Crowes vibe
05:31 - Setting on the Dumble Tweedle
06:07 - Playing: Tweedle
07:03 - Playing: Tweedle - normal channel
07:23 - Switching back and forth between amps


Notes
I got a feeling this one is gonna spark a helluva ruckus in the comment section friends hahaaaa

In one corner , an original 1959 fender tweed deluxe with stock trannies and Jensen speaker (value 8-10k)

In the other corner, a new Dumble Tweedle-Dee with Celestion 25w greenback (MSRP 12.5k)

May 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Keep Gettin Stuck Here All The Time…”

Chapters
00:00 - Stone Temple Pilots - Vaseline brilliant cover with son on drums


Notes
He might be only 10…but the boy can flat groove

Ladies and gentlemen, Leo Thomas Bukovac on the drums, one take

May 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 629, Tom Bukovac, “Free Solo Dad”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Tele deliciousness
04:51 - Hellooo...friends
05:30 - Tom's son, Leo's, loop with Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120 "Stadium sound"
06:34 - Stone Temple Pilots (STP) show and being guests
08:11 - Bruce Nelson Guitar (Telecaster style)
09:00 - Bridge pickup
09:10 - Neckup pickup
10:12 - Working in the studio (Harper O'Neil)
11:22 - Serial killer shows and fascination question
12:34 - "The Crash" movie
13:10 - Joe Perry nicking up Dean DeLeo's guitar / D-18 guitar is almost done
14:06 - Teenie Hodges documentary
15:11 - Thanks for previous "Rushing" video
15:38 - "The Cliffs" new music
15:53 - Gordon Mote and the studio


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on a VERY demanding of week of solo parenting two of the coolest little boys in the Deep South.

Been having a blast listening to mixes and making mix revisions of the new Buk/Jedd/Guthrie acoustic album that is about to be unleashed upon the world as soon as we get it mastered and get an album cover done .

I think you guys are gonna like this one …it’s VERY unique.
I can’t quite say I’ve ever heard another record quite like it to be honest…it has elements of sooo many different influences…bluegrass, space honky, western, Spanish, rockabilly, Disney, doom rock, and many others .

It’s a truly high fidelity sonic capture by engineer Brandon Bell…a real auditory feast for your earholes

We don’t have a name for it yet…do you?

Also, check out the new CLIFFS releases on all the streaming platforms ...i’m very proud of those boys

If you want to see more of the work of Bruce Nelson, who made the fine instrument I am playing in today’s video lookie here:

If you want to see more of the new Dumble Tweedle-Dee 1x12” combo flamethrower lookie here:

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May 18th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 628, Tom Bukovac, “The Human Tendency To Rush”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Goldtop with Firebird pickup
05:32 - Hillo, friends / Facing the day of American life :|
08:47 - Negative Visualization
11:00 - Not a fat rockstar, just a healthy session man
12:06 - Beatles - Rubber Soul album / Weird songs
12:56 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Things Going On
13:20 - Rushing Theory (Billy Powell, Dickey Betts) - "You can hear yourself a bit better"
16:15 - Lesson: Tempo being wrong
17:08 - "Hardest thing to play with energy and put it in the pocket"
18:27 - Young gal that never played in the studio analogy
21:13 - "Why does everything have to be on the click?" / Cutting and fitting every parts


Notes
Uncle Larry, the self proclaimed Sultan Of Smear, shares his thoughts about the ancient human instinct to rush.

May 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 627, Tom Bukovac, “He’s Got A Pretty Mouth”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing and singing
02:19 - Hello, friends / Pool party
03:28 - Dean DeLeo, Trip The Witch, and getting up on stage with Stone Temple Pilots (STP)
04:18 - Deliverence movie
06:04 - '56 Gibson Les Paul TV Junior / Non-original bridge trivia
07:33 - Playing
07:55 - Looking for an original case
08:22 - Thank you / Abbey Road, Ty Myers, and looking for instruments
10:16 - Playing / Summation


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class a lovely old limed mahogany Gibson from one of the greatest years in American guitar building history…..1956

…and he discusses one of the greatest American cinematic achievements of the early 70’s….Deliverance

Special thanks to John Shanks and Noah from Carter Vintage Guitars for bending over backwards to facilitate this deal

I would never have been able to get this magnificent old guitar without the help of those two fine gentlemen…

May 16th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “So Ya’ Wanna Be A Session Man?”

Chapters
00:00 - Session piano player
05:39 - Back with the band


Notes
Dear Homeskoolers, meet Jason Webb, cherished member of the Nashville session community, and one of the most amazing keyboard players i have seen in my entire life.

Just for a little mind blowing context, in this section of the song we were working on, the chart just said “5 bars of 5 chord”….

some folks would see and naturally, they would just hold a 5 chord for 5 bars…and then certain OTHER folks can envision/create/perform something like this… on the fly…and actually get it on tape

I would say this is a pretty good example of the old phrase “there’s probably something more you could potentially be doing…”

…and the end of this video shows Dann Huff, Tommy Sims and Chris McHugh in the heat of battle

I feel honored and lucky to be able to work with musicians of this caliber almost every day

May 16th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Session Update “A PROFESSIONAL Recording Studio”

Chapters
00:00 - Keith Urban studio and gear tour
00:37 - Drums
00:52 - Bass
01:01 - Dann Huff guitar rig
01:44 - Tom Bukovac rig
02:10 - Keyboard and leslie room / History
03:50 - Control room, guitars, effects
06:15 - Downtown Nashville / History of the toilet / Patch bay


Notes
Session update from one of the finest REAL recording studios in the world

The Sound in Nashville TN

I made a comment today on a break after hearing Chris McHugh’s God-like drum sounds in the headphones “well, you’re sure as hell not gonna get THAT drum sound in some home studio”

And yes friends…home studios are fun and all, but when you work in a place that was DESIGNED to be a major recording studio, you can CERTAINLY hear the difference

there is no way around it