April 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 606, Tom Bukovac, “Big Band Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking and a pickin' an SG
06:50 - Lynyrd Skynryd - Tuesday's Gone
09:59 - Gibson SG - P90 / Myriad of sounds (Rock, Country, Acoustic, Jazz, Bob Seager)
11:20 - Bob Seager - Baker Street / Michael Buble update
13:47 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Land Rover owners aggro
14:31 - Vince Gill Summer? No.
15:19 - Vox AC-15
16:34 - Band at Keith Urban's studio (Gordon Mote and friends) / Futureman
17:45 - Michael Buble's session with John Clayton
20:28 - Gordon Mote session


Notes
Uncle Larry recounts the last couple days of intense sessioneering with Michael Buble and a bunch of other people that are way more talented than I am

April 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 605, Tom Bukovac, “I Wanna Hold Your Man”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
03:48 - Good morning, dear friends
05:20 - Lesson: Beatles move
07:40 - Awards in school
08:32 - Fender Jaguar / Mutes
09:00 - Playing: The Kinks - Lola
10:00 - Guitar Dreams in Scotland / World Traveling / Produce record in Norway / Police
13:24 - Music City Gibson Southern Jumbo sold / Fender Telecaster
14:25 - Vintage guitar affordable / Walmart to pillaging the world / Buying and selling houses


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a break from re-watching Sabrina Carpenter’s “House Tour” video for just long enough to make a new episode of the progrum.

Here’s the link for the Guitar Dreams thing in Scotland friends
https://www.guitardreams.co.uk/guitar...

April 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 604, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Glarry”

Chapters
00:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster Custom (brand new)
03:15 - Music Emporium t-shirt
03:39 - Playing: Fender Telecaster Custom through Bassman


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class an NOS 1968 Fender Telecaster Custom.

Special thanks to Bubba Sarley for the recent additions to the Homeskoolin vocabulary

April 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Uncle Larry’s Hot Picks (Volume 1)

Chapters
00:00 - '42 Gibson Southern Jumbo


Notes
I’m tellin ya friends …somebody out there should call Music City Vintage Guitars in Nashville and buy this bad ass guitar

42 Southern Jumbo with a ton of excuses and a ton of soul

April 5th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 603, Tom Bukovac, “Easter Lamia”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Genesis - The Lamia
03:06 - Electro-Harmonix Little Muff
03:54 - '59 Fender Tweed Bassman (40W)
04:20 - Blackface and Tweed together, 3rd voice appears
09:45 - Playing: The Doors - Love Two Times
10:30 - Old pedals tone sucking bypass / Comparing plugging in / New pedals
12:00 - Playing: The Doors - Touch Me
14:00 - Playing: The Doors - Riders on the Storm (loop)
16:00 - Update / Being able to read music
19:00 - Jizzboy


Notes
Uncle Larry sends out a little progressive Easter love for his beloved Homeskoolers with one of Steve Hackett’s most memorable solos…”The Lamia”… from the record that all real Genesis fans just refers to as “The Lamb”

Here’s those cool amp baffles friends :
https://www.speightbaffle.com/products

check out some cool Homeskoolin merch friends
https://humbuckermerch.com/

and i KNOW you guys appreciate a fun Easter egg hunt…so if anyone out there wants to beat the Competition , there might be a certain guitar about to go up on the block …Orange you glad I told you?

It’s not at all like the guitar that dave Mustang played in megadeth in 1968, so don’t start thinking that it is

i keep thinking of a number somewhere between 7400 and 7600 …if you want to guess what that number is email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

and here is the link to the course that is now selling for half its original price friends
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

April 4th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Long Distance Go-Around”

Chapters
00:00 - Fender go-around belt


Notes
Uncle Larry and friends turns the class on to one of the rarest items to ever come from the corporate suits at post CBS Fender…the Fender Go-Around guitar waist belt

April 3rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 602, Tom Bukovac, “Super Clean Reverb”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Gibson Les Paul Custom
04:15 - Hello, friends / The chord you use when you play funk
05:05 - Fender Super Reverb
05:51 - History of Marshall and Vox
07:00 - Vox amp / House generator
09:05 - "Money is laying all over, just need to pick it up"
11:53 - Jamie French
13:38 - Dan Auerbach studio jam
14:20 - Marcus King
15:00 - Netflix movie about Boeing by Ron Howard


Notes
Uncle Larry keeps the subscribers abreast of current topics.

This is an amazing vid
• Inside Vox: The Bankruptcy That Destroyed ...

So is this
• The Fatal Marshall Scandal: The Corporate ...

Half off the course this week friends !!
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And she’s already got a million subs so she don’t need all my stragglers, but here ya go
@jaimefrenchofficial

April 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 601, Tom Bukovac, “If 36 Was 39”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Acoustic
02:39 - Hello, friends! / Morgan Wallen, Dan Auerbach, Michael Buble
05:15 - Lesson: McCartney style acoustic playing / Beatles - Blackbird
09:55 - Playing and singing
10:53 - "Saddest guitar ever" - Gibson J-50
12:34 - Son troubles
14:54 - Lesson: Nice chord Fmaj7add9 [x 8 0 5 0 8]
17:57 - Bryan Sutton and D18


Notes
Uncle Larry teaches ya a very cool fingerpickin technique that you REALLY need to get under your hands.

And is joined at the end by a special guest

If the video isn’t perfectly synced with the audio on the end piece, please try to remember, these videos are absolutely free

March 29th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 600, Tom Bukovac, “Faded Cherry”

Chapters
00:00 - Changing strings '61 Gibson SG
05:00 - Taking off pickguard


Notes
Uncle Larry commandeers an old 61 SG/LP from his own son’s guitar stash

Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge

March 29th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Offset America Part 3”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Fender Electric XII
03:44 - The guitar Candy Apple Red


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class one of the grand ideas CBS tarted out right after they purchased the second best guitar company in the world in 1965.

The Fender Electric XII…replete with offset body, hockey stick headstock, 4 way rotary pickup selector, binding and blocks, and in this case…a lovely candy apple red finish

Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge

March 28th, 2026

Homeskoolin Volume 599, Tom Bukovac, “Pulled Into Nazareth…”

Chapters
00:00 - Stringing an acoustic and talking Kid Rock and putting together unknown players
10:00 - Thanks and update


Notes
Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge

Witness a complete and total transformation that takes place after I get rid of the bullshit coated strings that were on this 39 D-18 and put on a set of Daddario phosphor bronze 013s, as the Good Lord intended .

March 28th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 598, Tom Bukovac, “Steers & Gear” (Starring JD Simo)

Chapters
00:00 - Slide playing
24:22 - Lingua with Kid Rock


Notes
Friends, please check out the big sale going on this weekend for my guitar instructional course going on at brettpapa.com
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Half off this time , so if you have been putting it off, NOW is the time to take the plunge

A little chat with my dear old friend JD Simo…

March 27, 2026, day 4 of four straight tracking days out at Kid Rock’s Dixie Ridge studio in White’s Creek TN.

Dan Friszell: Engineer
Gavin: Assistant Engineer
Bob Ritchie: vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion
Amanda Rowland: BGV’s
Shannon Curfman: BGV’s
Herschel Boone: BGV’s
Tim Watson: fiddle
Rowan Stewart: drums
Steve Pierce: bass
Jim “Moose” Brown: keyboards and mandolin
JD Simo: electric guitar
Yours Truly: electric & acoustic guitar, keyboards

March 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 597, Tom Bukovac “Ouds and Lutes”

Chapters
00:00 - Little heat from Texas
05:15 - Guitar is hard, friends
07:11 - Playing: Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
09:49 - Chess songs / Yes / Playing and singing
14:20 - Teaching lessons to ass guy


Notes
Uncle Larry fantasizes about being young and British with long straight hair and weird teeth, and about having some ancient exotic stringed instruments …all while being trapped in a world of American P-90s and vintage Cleveland tweed…

March 25th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 596, Tom Bukovac, “Ivy League Rock”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Strat
04:10 - Hello, friends! / Kid Rock and JD Simo
05:17 - Fender Tweed Harvard
05:55 - Playing: Strat into Harvard
06:56 - Playing: '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
09:07 - Greg Voros
10:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / '78 Yamaha FG750S comment


Notes
Uncle Larry soaks his weary ears in a nice hot tweed bath….Harvard, Princeton, Yale..whatever it takes…

March 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Music For People Who Live By The Airport”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Acoustic


Notes
Uncle Larry caresses the wood and steel
….caress of steel…caress of pedal steel…pedal to the metal…metal health…health and welfare …welfare lady…lady in red…red velvet curtains…closed curtains…closing time ….time to pretend …the great pretender…tender is the night ….night moves…moving picture ..picture in a frame…Scanlon who’s pitchin the opener…can opener…can’t fight this feeling …feelin alright …right where you belong …you belong to me …

Well everything from this morning’s video sold right away EXCEPT the one that was the best deal of all that stuff..the 56 special ….special K…K mart…Marty Stuart…Marty Stuart little …little red riding hood …hood rats…rats in the cellar…cellar dweller…Helen Keller…Bob feller…

March 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 595, Tom Bukovac, “Spring Cleanin’”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing acoustic
02:44 - Checking in...
03:36 - '36 Martin D-18
06:09 - Grabbing the '38 Martin
06:32 - '38 Marting 000-18
06:53 - Playing: 000-18
08:27 - Playing: D-18
10:26 - Comparing it to a Neumann U67 microphone
13:01 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '59 Gibson J50 - $6,500
13:48 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '56 Gibson Les Paul Special - $22,000
14:42 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '80 Hamer Sunburst - $3,000
16:03 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '61 Fender 400 Pedal Steel - $2,500


Notes
Uncle Larry’s champagne tastes on a beer budget once again forces him to liquidate some gear he wasn’t planning on selling

As always …local pickup ALWAYS wins here

My email is tombukovac@gmail.com

59 J-50…I got 6k in it and I am trying to make 500 bucks on it…do the math

56 LP Special …22K plus shipping …ask any vintage dealer about that price…oh and don’t forget to tell them that it’s 9.5/10 condition

1980 Hamer Sunburst, a bit heavy but it’s a tone machine…set up PERFECTLY…priced VERY affordabily 3K

61 Fender 400 pedal steel…very low mileage and no rust whatsoever $2500.00

March 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Nerves Of Steel”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing on a beauty pedal steel


Notes
You already knew it wouldn’t be long before he went back to playing a proper old sho-bud 10 string 3 and 1 with rods like he used to play

Uncle Larry never does ANYTHING half assed

March 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 594, Tom Bukovac, “Shade Top Mechanic”

Chapters
00:00 - Unclus Larrius and Springtime
02:32 - Shorepoint Guitars and classic Gibson acoustic purchase
05:00 - '48 Martin D-18 Shaded Top
09:18 - Back to the Gibson J-50 string change / Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry recounts a lovely experience he had yesterday at the Amigo’s vintage guitar show in Music City USA

March 18th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 593, Tom Bukovac, “Costume Party World”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Update / Change in sessions from months at a time
02:54 - Lesson: Endurance factor riff / Playing for the long run
05:21 - Rick Beato video about Angine de Poitrine from Quebec
07:01 - KISS, gimics, gags, pole dancing moves to make it
10:27 - Song out to Daniel / Amigos
11:50 - Forensic Files and whack jobs like Jizzboy


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on the state of the world before work

March 17th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 592, Tom Bukovac, “Storm Clean Up”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Gretsch getting dirty
02:54 - Hello, friends! / Playing
04:25 - '61 Gretsch 6120 gifted from Vince Gill
05:41 - Playing
06:20 - Lesson: "Eye of the Storm" / Key D 6ths -> Am -> G -> F6
13:07 - Filter'Tron pickups
14:13 - Bridge pickup / Grind in a good way
15:05 - Steal all the licks you want...you cannot steal the man's soul
17:11 - Implement your stolen lick in your style


Notes
In the aftermath of the storm, brave Larry soldiers on with his flamey western orange sickle to try to pick up all the branches , and show you how it was done