May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 451, Tom Bukovac, “Talbilly” ‪@TalWilkenfeld‬

Chapters
00:00 - Duet
04:37 - Hank Williams Jr. - Family Tradition
11:19 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Middle Age Crazy
19:04 - Waylon Jennings - The Wurlitzer Prize
25:04 - Angel Flying
31:24 - Long Hair Country


Notes
The Homeskoolin progrum welcomes a special out of town guest….direct from Los Angeles, legendary musician ​⁠‪@TalWilkenfeld‬

In the last 2 days Tal has been undergoing a crash course education in roots hillbilly music in case she ever decides to move to Nashville.

We left in all the mistakes, cuz I know you guys love the real shit ….

Enjoy

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “One For All The Stoners Out There”

Chapters
00:00 - Car wash


Notes
Smoke up boys…we goin to the Wash And Roll

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 450, Tom Bukovac, "maximumlarry.com/course"

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson Firebird string changing
02:17 - Dean Cadillac back from Gruhn's
03:09 - Second wave of vintage / Pink Ibanez
05:03 - Jedd's copied amp circuit and Ebo
07:21 - Shaq, convertible Hellcat
16:00 - Redd Volkaert
22:18 - Gruhn Guitars Inc. - George Gruhn


Notes
Sign up today on the mailing list friends and get half off the upcoming course

maximumlarry.com/course

May 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 449, Tom Bukovac, “Northeastern Flyer”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful Old Times music
02:43 - Hey friends / Vince Gill
03:26 - Lesson: C9aug into a C69
03:45 - Brother Doug
04:55 - Playing / Music Theory / Kurt Cobain in a Western Swing Jam
06:48 - Guyatone PS-023 Chorus Flanger (Jedd gifted pedal)
08:00 - Western Swing
09:09 - Pretender in life / What you spend time on
09:58 - Redd Volkaert
11:33 - Whit Smith
13:10 - Lesson: Inversions / Playing over changes
14:57 - Lesson: Right or Wrong tune (chord progression) / Playing over
18:06 - YouTuber Rob Chapman / 1975 Strat and Tele
20:36 - Mailing List / Uncle Larry course
22:03 - Echoplex dying
22:42 - Clint Strong


Notes
Uncle Larry publicly apologizes for trying to play some western swing last night....

I'm still 6 foot 2, but I’m down to 226 on the scale this morning friends…slow and steady…12 pounds down from my fattest moment about 4-5 months ago

My diet motto:
“All meat and veg, and no carbs except Yuenglings”

Try it friends....it’s slow, but it works and it’s REAL weight loss…not that fly by night temporary weight loss you see on the last night infomercials

Get the burger, but just don’t eat the bun.....you don’t even miss it after a while.

check out this shit awesome shit...
• The Western Flyers with Redd Volkaert & Wh...

and if any of you kids out there can play the shit that happens starting at about 61 minutes into this video, then you are watching the wrong channel:
• Guitar Lesson - Clint Strong - Mastering J...

and here is the link to enter your email in, so you get half off my upcoming course:

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Old School Friday Rewind

Chapters
00:00 - Fucking great tunes!


Notes
open your minds kids…
take a little trip back to the olden days with Uncle Larry….

#jazzcurious
#clintweak
#bobwillsowick


tryin like hell to learn how to play guitar on a Friday night through a dying echoplex

This one goes out to my old buddy Scank

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 448, Tom Bukovac, “Clam Bake”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking out on the Dean
02:45 - Uncle Larry checking in / Talent show / Homeskoolin' theme song
04:15 - Spiritual Power
04:45 - Pedals, pedals, pedals / Harmon Booster
07:57 - Uni-Fuzz
08:24 - Old Big Muffs
10:05 - '67 Pontiac GTO / Hellcat
11:12 - Tal Wilkenfeld / The Cliffs
11:56 - Allman Brothers - Sweet Melissa (out of pocket)
13:21 - War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (massive clams)
13:55 - Sign up for course - 50% off


Notes
Uncle Larry plays a little AOR radio rock and gets into the world of auto mechanics

here is the link to the mailing list
https://maximumlarry.com/course

May 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 447, Tom Bukovac, “This Machine Kills Cell Phone Cameras”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
07:18 - Out of tune / Check-in / Talent show / Hellcat
08:54 - '65 Fender Stratocaster / D minor progression / Thanks for shredding words
09:48 - Brett Papa and Rock 'n' Roll
11:00 - Daniel Tasha
11:39 - Pedal Steel and Slash
15:00 - Brett Papa class


Notes
Uncle Larry on another one of his rants

Here is the link to join the mailing list friends

I PROMISE I will never mail bomb you….it will be tasteful
https://maximumlarry.com/course

May 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “A Complete Guide To Overdrive Pedals That Actually Work”

Chapters
00:00 - Shredding
03:28 - Howya doing?
03:49 - Harmonic Minor
04:40 - Shortcomings of the Kramer
06:55 - What makes a pedal sound like a pedal
14:08 - Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive, Blues Driver, etc.
15:47 - Boss EQ-10
18:16 - Gruhn's shopping and finding a bass
18:53 - Fender Precision Bass
19:13 - "Rare"
19:52 - Jazz bass vs Precision
21:16 - Hellcat


Notes
Uncle Larry demonstrates how he won the Cleveland Ohio "Guitar Wars Contest" in 1987...
and dips his foot in the water of talking about gear…at the risk of pissing off all the tube screamer and klon lovers

May 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 446, Tom Bukovac, "Wild 700 Horses"

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Special
01:30 - Just Larry / Real Tube and MXR Sugar Drive
02:25 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special through Princeton Reverb
02:50 - Real Tube pedal
04:58 - Nobels ODR-1
05:37 - MXR Sugar Drive
08:42 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Let everything go
09:40 - Good sound from Nobels with Les Paul comment
10:32 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
12:27 - Touring to bus level / Doing your own thing vs sideman
14:50 - Stalker Guy channel tanking
15:24 - Hellcat


Notes
Why do we still use horses as a unit of engine power measurement anyway?
Is it to further belittle the horse?

May 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 445, Tom Bukovac, “New Frontier”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:57 - In tune D chord
02:14 - Hello, friends!
02:50 - '64 Epiphone Frontier
03:33 - '64 Gibson J
05:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:49 - Dean bridge
07:11 - Dean neck
08:50 - Nut and shimming and intonation


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some stuff about guitars

May 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 444, Tom Bukovac, “Caddy Shack”

Chapters
00:00 - Dean Cadillac string change
10:15 - MXR Sugar Drive / Real Tube
12:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat / Stolen measures


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about road life and shows you a VERY rare guitar

May 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Abandoned Kitchenette”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:53 - Hotel rooms?


Notes
Uncle Larry with a road update from Reading PA with a broken bridge guitar

Love can build a bridge

This episode is dedicated to my dear old pal J.O….fellow lover of fast cars and freedom

May 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 4-4-2, Tom Bukovac, “Supercharged”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes concert gig
01:43 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
02:57 - Playing
05:14 - "Hello...?" pickup
06:55 - Chord just fell out
07:16 - John Fogerty tour with Tina Turner
08:29 - John never warms up voice - "I just trust it"
09:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
10:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster
11:10 - Microphonic pickups / Wax potting
13:33 - Lesson: Roy Nichols turnaround
15:44 - Trivia Question: No mudcap tele.  1st year Fender went to modern wiring?


Notes
Uncle Larry provides the standard fare of riffs you can pirate and not give me credit for.

Eddie Dunlap on that weird table guitar contraption

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 441, Tom Bukovac, “Joggers In The Fog”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
03:45 - Hello, friends
04:52 - Morning check-in / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
06:00 - Diane Warren song (Taylor Dayne)
08:37 - Lesson: Playing
10:10 - Vince Gill / Playing songs like an apple
12:42 - Durango Hellcat
13:27 - Tinnitus?
14:15 - Parent a grown ass man
15:22 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB before shuffling off to the mill.

May 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 440, Tom Bukovac, “The 5th Of May”

Chapters
00:00 - One of those great tangents
08:29 - Hi friends / Fender Vibro Champ Reverb
11:11 - EVO SRO (Electro-Voice)
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Bought a Hellcat Durango
12:57 - Liqui Slide
13:15 - Strymon Timeline
14:16 - Boss SDE-3000
14:45 - Hotel rooms and Dodge Durango Hellcat color (Destroyer Gray)
15:38 - The Essential Craftsman (YouTube channel)
17:42 - Play with humor and grace / Like a little bit of mess
19:00 - Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Happy birthday Bub!

if you guys like rock and roll, you can always throw something in the tip jar
my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated...how crazy is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9u5xUFEDQQ

May 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”

Chapters
00:00 - One Hour Photo loop with slide over it
02:54 - Ungraceful dismount
04:40 - Slide
11:44 - Checking in / Solo over the depressing loop / Vince Gill rehearsals
14:30 - Pedalboard used to use with Ann Wilson
14:52 - Loathe the Strymon Timeline
15:40 - Nashville Guitar Center and meeting a fan in public
17:25 - Lesson: Looking to play some Swang
19:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll take you home" lick
20:26 - Lesson: Goofing around lick
21:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll accompany you back to your hotel" picking all 5 fingers lick (F13 [1 x 1 2 3 1])
22:25 - Lesson: Pull off in F is even cooler


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some depressing slide and then gets into some nasty western swing licks you can teach your grand kids some day

…and totally unrelated, this is sooo my new favorite YouTube channel....i fuckin' LOVE this guy

he's a total bad ass master craftsman with a zillion subscribers on YouTube...
i'm not even a builder and i have already learned so much from watching his stuff.
on a more sentimental note, i chose this video of his to show you first because i love the reverence he has for the great people that built this amazing country

this shit is right up my alley friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMOxBm7NsU

May 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 438, Tom Bukovac, “Common Tones For The Common Man Part Deaux”

Chapters
00:00 - Frankensteen
01:16 - Hello, friends
02:13 - Common tones in chords
02:42 - Music no matter where is at (commercial, video game, etc.)
03:35 - "One Hour Photo" (Robin Williams movie) / Study song
05:00 - Song "Johnny Klimek - End Titles (Sy's Theme)"
07:00 - Lesson: Chord progression of song (Fmin -> E6 -> B6 -> Bbdom7 -> Gmin9 -> F#6 -> C#6 -> C7)
13:42 - Lesson: Twisting your ear / Beck's father and string arrangements
15:27 - 1645 (the I vi IV V)
19:15 - Lesson: The use of 6ths


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some shit

May 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 437, Tom Bukovac “Ten Gallon Hat”

Chapters
00:00 - Somber plucking around
06:53 - Just Larry from the Opry playing through the Ebo Spring Verb
08:17 - New looper pedal
10:43 - Jedd Hughes and the Grand Ole Opry
11:57 - Lesson: Show you a lick with the claw method


Notes
fresh from the Opry , Uncle Larry gives ya a little western swang with a touch of Kalamazoo...


trust me on this friends...if you REALLY ARE serious about your music, you absolutely MUST look into buying one of these absolutely magical devices...

you: "what is it Larry?"
me: "just the best sounding tube spring reverb in the history of mankind that's all"

https://www.ebocustoms.com/new-products/e-verb-studio-2

and lastly...

check this out friends....back when we were lean and hungry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKU-0_EqR4

May 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 436, Tom Bukovac, “Back In The Compensated Saddle”

Chapters
00:00 - Demonstration of Music City saddles / '63 Fender Telecaster
03:30 - '64 Fender Telecaster Custom
05:29 - '60 Fender Telecaster / The Who
06:47 - Lesson: Jefferson Airplane basic Music Theory
10:12 - Metallica & Pantera show
10:36 - Lesson: Beatles love of major and minor 3rd at same time


Notes
If you don’t already have a set of Music City Bridge Groovemaster Tele saddles, you are a naughty naughty boy