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
my PayPal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

if you want to see some cool Homeskoolin t shirts check out www.humbuckermerch.com

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 13th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 624, Tom Bukovac, “Murray Olderman Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that maple cap Blonde Tele
04:27 - Hello, friends!
04:56 - Lesson: 1 chord Easy Listening rhythm with infinite
07:28 - Playing: Strange bending
09:30 - Music City Bridge saddles
11:08 - Freak out with a theremin
12:38 - Acoustic and baked potatoes
14:55 - Music City Bridge saddles
17:44 - Ad for YouTube


Notes
Uncle Larry gets way deep into the science of baked potatoes and guitar bridge saddles

THIS is where you need to be today friends

For your tele AND your Strat

If you buy these….THEN you’ll be happy
https://musiccitybridge.com/products/groove-master-strat-saddles

May 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 621, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 4”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jaguar
02:50 - Hello, friends / Happy Mother's Day
03:23 - '64 Fender Jaguar Lake Placid Blue
03:33 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster Blonde
03:44 - '68 Fender Mustang Orange
04:42 - Jazzmaster
05:14 - Jazzmaster free-floating vibrato system
05:40 - Jazzmaster switch, preset volume, preset tone
08:00 - Playing: Jazzmaster
09:04 - Jazzmaster bridge
09:37 - Jazzmaster neck
10:19 - Mustang
10:50 - Mustang switches / Out-of-phase sound
12:18 - Playing: Mustang
12:48 - Mustang bridge
13:31 - Jaguar / Jaguar switches
14:05 - Playing: Jaguar
16:19 - Summation


Notes
Happy Mother’s Day dear Homeskoolers …hope you enjoy this trip through Fender’s offset line-up in the 60’s…when surf was king and when droves of perfectly healthy young American boys were being shipped off to strange foreign lands to fight a war that no one understood.

And totally unrelated….if you haven’t seen the movie “The Sound Of Metal” yet on Amazon worldwide streaming…do yourself a favor

May 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 620, Tom Bukovac, “Eastbound And Broke”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See on the new Tele
02:46 - Numerous names
04:00 - '65 Fender Telecaster with maple cap neck / Playing / Music City Bridge saddles
08:08 - Playing: Tele Custom
09:47 - Playing: Back to the Maple
11:58 - New '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
14:56 - Imitation Tom / Guitar shipping boxes


Notes
Uncle Larry gives the class a tour through some exciting new arrivals in the Spring Collection.

Special thanks to Rick Hogue from Garrett Park guitars for a very smooth transaction on a super fuckin’ rad old Tele.

If I don’t stop him Marshall will eat 10 bananas in one day like nothing .

May 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 619, Tom Bukovac, “The Rush”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Lake Placid Blue
01:36 - Hello dear friends / #1 dad
04:06 - Love slop :|
05:02 - UPS and vultures
05:49 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Selling the Les Pauls
06:52 - Daredevil accident eBike
08:04 - Acoustic saddles
09:11 - Muscle memory vs. Theory / Depends on previous note
11:40 - Lesson: E7 - cool notes out - bend 5th to 6th / Playing
13:11 - Bought a cool maple cap tele
13:47 - Lesson: Creepy delay with cool effect


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a stroll on a sweet old transition logo Fender …through an old Fender amp from the same year

I think of it as “transitional tone” that was available in any real music store in America in 1965, just as Leo was being asked to step down and take a 10 year break from building anything with the no compete clause that the CBS suits so wisely put in the contract when they bought the second best guitar company in American history

and...here is the most interesting interview in country music history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0uSj6eA714

and...this guy gets it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/un1i4m6K_X4

if you guys wanna donate to the cause of keeping country music country, please consider throwing something in the old tip jar...to potentially pay for e-bike related ER trips and black vulture removal

Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
Paypal is tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬

April 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 607, “Does Tone Come From The Hands?”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Telecaster
05:21 - Hellooo, friends!
06:00 - Playing: Coming up with some Michael Jackson tunes
08:10 - "Killer Chorus" / Michael Jackson and greats making great noises
09:25 - "How do you come up with flow of ideas?"
11:25 - Paul McCartney
11:52 - Lesson: Get a motif going and then start fucking with it / Putting melodies to it
13:30 - "If you don't practice improvising, how are you ever going to get better at it?" / Pre-Internet practice
14:59 - Lesson: Weakness tentativeness
15:38 - "How much tone is in the hands?" = 95%, the other 5% in gear is important!  :|
16:36 - The most interesting video - Tonal shading of 10 different individual guitar players
18:41 - Danny Dugmore story about David Grissom and tone from the hands / Gear settings are in the ear
22:56 - Summation / Play the Middle Way (not too much and not too little)


Notes
The age old question that we are all SOOOO sick of finally gets definitely answered Cleveland style.

I even did one of those super dumb thumbnail pictures to match my clickbait video title…cuz it seemed appropriate

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…