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 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

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 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 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 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Uncle Rowdy”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that ole time
05:48 - Playing: Jimi Hendrix - Wait Until Tomorrow / Medley


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a ride on “Uncle Rowdy”, a particularly angry terminally pissed off chopped 59 Strat …he never wanted to be chopped, now he lives with a chip on his shoulder and a bad disposition in a lawless western town hiding from the Pinkertons and cheating every man he meets blind


…and in the end, all great songs just become one …

For example …over this I like to sing stuff like
“l’m gonna love you forever and ever, here’s a quarter call someone who cares”

March 15th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Uncle Rowdy”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing


Notes

Uncle Larry takes a ride on “Uncle Rowdy”, a particularly angry terminally pissed off chopped 59 Strat …he never wanted to be chopped, now he lives with a chip on his shoulder and a bad disposition in a lawless western town hiding from the Pinkertons and cheating every man he meets blind

…and in the end, all great songs just become one …

For example …over this I like to sing stuff like
“l’m gonna love you forever and ever, here’s a quarter call someone who cares”

March 14th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “The Back Forty”

Chapters
00:00 - Fender Jazzmaster


Notes
Uncle Larry plows the back forty on an old blonde Jazzmaster

March 14th, 2026

A Bunch Of Cool Old Guitars Straight Into An Amp…

Chapters
00:00 - Fender Mustang
00:28 - Gibson Firebird
00:55 - Gibson Les Paul Custom
01:26 - Fender Telecaster
01:47 - Gibson ES-150
02:09 - Rickenbacker
02:58 - Fender Stratocaster


Notes
…playin some old hillbilly music

March 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 591, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 2”

Chapters
00:00 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster
03:15 - '68 Fender Mustang (Competition Orange)
05:38 - Empty Marshall Columns
06:22 - Playing the Mustang
08:40 - Playing the 'Jazzy'


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class some of the gear that he recently acquired from a trip up to Bowling Green KY to meet with a fellow vintage gear enthusiast called Danny Dressler.

Very nice fellow…if you check out his Reverb site he has some very cool stuff for sale

His Reverb store is called Chromatone Music

March 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 588, Tom Bukovac “All The Petes”

Chapters
00:00 - In depth with a pedal steel


Notes
You may have thought that ol’ Larry’s pedal steel phase had already came and went many years ago…and you would be right ….

but…I recently got the urge to jump back in the fire and bought myself an old 1961 Fender 400

I had no idea how to set up the changes and pedals, so I called my dear old friend and legendary steel guitar man Bruce Bouton.

He was kind enough to burn a Sunday afternoon crawlin’ around underneath this archaic piece of Fullerton history, to help me get it up and running like it’s supposed to.

Bruce is a real country music historian, and I’m glad I had the cameras rolling to capture some of these great stories.

In the world of guitar , the name Steve is the most popular…there are a million great guitar players named Steve….

but in the pedal steel world , Pete is the magic name …Sneaky Pete, Pete Drake, Pete Wade…

Thanks for being on the progrum Brucey!!

March 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “America’s Amp”

Chapters
00:00 - Impossibly clean Super
03:51 - Inside the amp
05:44 - Getting it ready
08:25 - Playing the amp


Notes
there was a time in American history when men rode Harley’s and played loud rude country music…and soulful rhythm and blues music…and rowdy rockin’ blues music for scantily clad nasty ho's that were built like brick shit houses in smoky sweaty bars across this great land….

and this was the amp that they used…

and when the gig was over they pushed the driver seat of their 2 door 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix forward and threw the thing in the back seat while it was still hot …and then they went back inside and bought an eight ball off the bartender so they could stay up all night banging some stripper in their mobile home…

and this was the amp that they used….

and they didn’t have to “go direct” or put “baffles” in front of the amp…and they didn’t have “expression pedals” for their “modeling device”…and if they DID have a pedal , it said “MXR” on it in big block letters …and it ran on a 9 volt …and it sounded fuckin great …

and this is the amp that they used…

March 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “You Guys Know Any Originals?”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro to amp
03:07 - Inside the amp
03:48 - Playing the amp


Notes
Uncle Larry busts out a little two prong cord blues on one of the first Deluxe Reverbs that ever rolled off the line in Fullerton.

March 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 587, Tom Bukovac, “The Missing Piece”

Chapters
00:00 - Guess, hello, friends
00:56 - '56 Gibson Les Paul Special
03:00 - Stash of parts
07:38 - Marshall amps / Dumble amps
13:02 - Fender vs Gibson guitars / Gibson L5
15:40 - Soul Power series
17:35 - Jizzboy / Pickup height / Tuning
21:34 - Playing / Intonation...


Notes
In today’s episode, Larry’s big reveal gets completely ruined by the discovery of a missing part …
but rest assured friends, he will live to fight another day …
until next time my friends

February 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 580, Tom Bukovac, “Listen To The Blues They’re Playin”

Chapters
00:00 - Old skool tunes
02:55 - Hello, friends / Pick drop
03:50 - Lesson: So much shit right in there, friends / Endless lifetime
06:07 - How's everyone doing? / Update
07:33 - '60 Fender Telecaster Custom / Heat setting neck / Nick Drushel at Glaser's
09:55 - 250k potentiometer
11:45 - Victor Mason / Mojave amps / Plexi Palace


Notes
Uncle Larry performs a full cavity search of the tonal possibilities of a couple Fender Telecasters while the neighbor’s dog does his thing .

February 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 575, Tom Bukovac, “Community”

Chapters
00:00 - '65 Fender Stratocaster Ocean Turquose
05:10 - "What is the point...to leave it alone?"
07:30 - Carfax for guitars
10:00 - "Most heinous chop job?" / '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop P90
12:20 - Preamps in acoustics / Van Halen / Brent Mason Telecaster
16:23 - Fiberglass / Carbon fiber splines
23:04 - Neck sets
26:41 - Groove Master bridge and innovations at Glaser
30:00 - Tom Murphy / Tom Bukovac innovation on the hush about a Stratocaster


Notes
Uncle Larry visits with the boys from Music City Bridge to discuss a very cool 1965 Stratocaster that found it’s way to it’s current owner through a very real and very organic network of people working together simply trying to help each other out.

After 30 plus years of living in Nashville, I can tell you that there is a very strong sense of community here, and we are all very thankful for that.

This guitar was originally consigned at Music City Vintage for a LOT of money due to the rarity of the ocean turquoise custom color.

I saw it there and immediately fell in love with it, and decided to feature it in one of my videos thinking that someone out there with way more money than I have might be interested in it.

My dear friend Matt Swanson saw that video and said that he would buy the guitar, but ONLY if the store was cool with having the guitar inspected by the guys at Vintage Verified to MAKE SURE that the finish is original.

You may remember me telling you about Vintage Verified, they use spectrometry and other amazing technology to analyze finishes, plastic and metal. They can tell if a guitar is straight or not, which is very important when you are spending THAT kind of dough.

Vintage Verified inspected the guitar, confirmed that it is indeed authentic. It had already been refretted once, but it was not a great fret job, so they suggested that the guitar be refretted again properly.

Matt agreed, so it was sent over to Glaser Instrument Repair so that Nick Drushel could give it to the bad ass fret job that the guitar deserves.

This whole thing is a great example of how the guitar community in this town works…there are so many great people and great resources here.

It’s truly amazing and I am THRILLED to be a small part of this great big beautiful karmic wheel .

Hope you enjoy the video friends

It stars :
Joe Glaser
Nick Drushel
Josh Rawlings

February 11th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “1959 Tone”

Chapters
00:00 - '59 Fender Bassman (fixed by Eric "Ebo" Borash)
02:55 - Playing the Bassman and '59 Gibson ES-355
04:45 - In the studio with some talent


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class a 1959 tweed fender bassman 4x10 he recently acquired that was refurbished by Eric “Ebo” Borash at www.ebocustoms.com

Showcased here with a 1959 factory mono Gibson ES-355, not a bad little combo

Sorry I ain’t been around lately friends , been really busy raising kids and working.

Did a super fun session yesterday at RCA Studio A with Ella Langley

I am very proud of her, she is absolutely killing it.

her song “Choosin’ Texas” is number one in the country right now in all genres…so happy for her, she deserves it. A true talent.

Aaron Sterling is the fine drummist featured at the end of the video