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May 22nd, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 629, Tom Bukovac, “Free Solo Dad”
Chapters00:00 - 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
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May 11th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 622, Tom Bukovac, “Kickstand Swing”
Chapters00:00 - Playing Jazz Country Swing
01:59 - Hello, friends
03:22 - Hear the chord changes underneath?
04:05 - Playing
04:36 - Lesson: Lick that let's people know you mean business
06:53 - Lesson: Get using your pinky a lot
10:16 - Funny story about kids
11:38 - Lesson: Volume swell
13:46 - Movie: Sound of Metal
14:20 - '48 Gibson D-18
14:27 - Lesson: Bbmaj7 [1 1 0 2 3 3]
Notes
Uncle Larry shows you how to voice lead with a guitar that has a built in kickstand…and a pitched headstock with no volute…what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
May 10th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 621, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 4”
Chapters00:00 - 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
April 4th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Long Distance Go-Around”
Chapters00:00 - 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
March 14th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “The Back Forty”
Chapters00:00 - Fender Jazzmaster
Notes
Uncle Larry plows the back forty on an old blonde Jazzmaster
TAGS
March 13th, 2026
Homeskoolin’ Volume 591, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America 2”
Chapters00:00 - '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
November 3rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 522, Tom Bukovac, “Offset America”
Chapters00:00 - Bench hello friends / Cannot watch NFL Monday Night Football
01:27 - Michael Buble
02:34 - '64 Fender Jaguar
03:48 - Putting some 0.010 flats on it
08:22 - Jaguar mute (felt mute)
13:09 - Gordon Mote
15:42 - All set up and playing
17:39 - "The strangle switch"
18:16 - Jaguar vs. Jazzmaster / Playing
Notes
Uncle Larry tweaks on a poor old neglected 64 lake placid blue jag with matching headstock that he has had laying around for ages
June 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Savannah Banana”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking in a hotel
01:48 - Lesson: Lick you should know
02:38 - Savannah Georgia with Vince Gill update
04:07 - Greg Koch
05:15 - June 6th course technical difficulties
05:54 - Road hacks (shampoo, etc.)
Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from his hotel room with his phone sitting on the desk propped up by a banana…pretty high tech huh?
You do know that you are never supposed to bring a banana on a fishing boat right?
June 2nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 460, Tom Bukovac, “Ghost In The Machine”
Chapters00:00 - Jazzy intro
00:37 - Creepiest amp ever heard
04:10 - Hello / Coolest guitar
04:25 - '36 Gibson ES-150 Charlie Christian pickup
05:29 - Red felt end strings / Charlie Christian
06:52 - Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
07:40 - Lesson: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
09:40 - Course possible delay due technical glitch
10:45 - '58 Rickenbaker Capri - Autmn Glo
12:09 - Cut the cap off bridge pickup
13:56 - Dann Huff and Keith Urban
14:30 - Mellow version of yourself
Notes
Uncle Larry traverses joyfully across several styles of adult guitarisms on a 1936 ES-150….only to wind up on some old hillbilly music
editors note:
the guy i bought it from told me they are Thomastik Infeld Jazz Swing 12 strings
May 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin' Volume 457, Tom Bukovac, "Does Wood REALLY Matter?"
Chapters
00:00 - Fishing out calming notes
03:20 - Old Homeskoolin' picks
04:11 - Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
05:02 - Volume pedal swells
05:40 - Skyline Motel
06:10 - Lesson: Waterfall guitar part
09:00 - Got a 'car guy' for the Hellcat with special TN black plates
09:45 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Titles of videos, school newspaper, Creative Writing, Math
12:17 - JC-120
12:30 - Gibson Les Paul -> Duesenberg Sessionman
14:18 - Morgan Wallen records and different mixes (Wood, 808, etc.)
16:00 - Maximumlarry.com
16:30 - Ghost story / Haunted guitar
17:09 - 3 50's Gibson Les Paul acoustic shootout
17:26 - '55 Custom
17:53 - '58 Special
18:18 - '52 Goldtop
19:00 - Lesson: E F G A B C D E
Notes
I was just thinking to myself...what would be the funniest most bullshit clickbait video title i could possibly think of...
here's a cool old track...the legendary Richard Bennett on acoustic...Uncle Larry on electrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPyzrdsKhe0
May 26th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Crystal City”
Chapters00:00 - Late night playing
Notes
Uncle Larry serves up a late night smoothie of icy frosted glass and frozen shimmering crystals on a solid state platter
March 28th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 415, Tom Bukovac, “Offset Contour Body”
Chapters00:00 - Pink Floyd nickname
03:00 - La Bella strings - Deep Talkin' Bass / Stringing
06:14 - PRS video
13:45 - J45 acoustic for sale $13,000 plus shipping
17:24 - Gordon Mote update
18:50 - The Cliffs
Notes
Uncle Larry puts some sweet high dollar flat wound strings on this tasty old hippie refin 63 jazz...
this one will forever be known as the "Azz Ass"
thank you guys for the ongoing support of the channel.
March 20th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Get What Ya Pay For”
Chapters00:00 - Newer Gibson Les Paul through Roland JC-120
02:09 - Newer Les Paul
02:29 - Mike McCready Les Paul R9 (Pearl Jam)
02:56 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Burst
03:10 - Result and comments
Notes
Thanks to Drew Wynn for being my roadie in this little clip.
March 17th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 408, Tom Bukovac, “Velvet Hammers”
Chapters00:00 - Fishing out those sounds
04:36 - Hey, friends! / Cleveland trip and neighborhood
07:40 - '52 Gibson Les Paul P90 Goldtop
08:25 - "Velvet hammers" (soft notes)
08:57 - Roland JC-120 - chorus off
10:06 - Les Paul pickups, out-of-phase sound
11:15 - "Let me play for a minute"
11:40 - Lesson: Blues in key of B and pre-bends
14:22 - Guitar Riot store / Son bought a MIM Stratocaster / Whatever you like
15:50 - Out-of-phase sound / Replacement bridge
16:45 - Lesson: Expressive pre-bends
17:27 - Gilmour and pre-bends
18:00 - "Fuck off" / "Grown-ass man making videos..." (Stalker Guy)
Notes
anyone that has given their life to the fretboard instantly knows and feels it when a certain guitar is giving you velvet hammers….and what a precious gift it is
today’s amplified signal is coming from my beloved old Roland jazz chorus 120…if you have never owned or tried one of these legendary amps you are making a serious mistake
they are, in a word, magic
February 5th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 398, Tom Bukovac, “Banner Head Believer Fever”
Chapters00:00 - Acoustic creamyness
03:03 - Hello, it's just Larry / Guitar phases
06:38 - Morgan Wallen / Dean Z guitar / Lana Del Rey
08:00 - Session blocks
09:43 - Country Band covers Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely -> "Isn't She Country"
10:41 - Gruhn and Eric Ernest Thanks / Doubleneck
12:00 - Spanish playing
12:34 - Lesson: Cat Stevens song
14:30 - Guthrie and acoustic guitar
16:45 - Son Marshall instructional video
19:00 - Bluegrass music / Different genres of music and making money
20:04 - Acoustic buying
20:37 - Lesson: [x x 5 4 2 2] over E; Pho-Jazz
22:31 - Lesson: Millisecond mute with picking technique
23:10 - Lesson: Playing down by the bridge / Stevie Wonder sound
Notes
Uncle Larry rolls out a new twist on some familiar chords, and also reflects a bit on the many "phases” of a typical guitar player's life…
One very important phase I left out was the “fuck pedals, i’m just gonna plug straight into the amp” phase…which is then usually followed by the “I want to build a giant rack to house all my vintage pedals that I can run off a looper” phase…
it never ends my friends...
well, at some point it actually does end i suppose.
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January 10th, 2025
The Guitar Case…..A Brief History
Chapters00:00 - Snowing in Nashville
00:40 - '63 Fender Jazz Bass / Case
02:54 - Earliest Fender case owned
03:46 - '60's Fender cases ('60, '63, '64)
05:22 - Gibson cases (Les Paul)
05:45 - Gibson archtop cases ("California case")
06:56 - Gibson SG cases
07:33 - '62 Gibson SG case
07:55 - Early 60's Gibson / ES-335
08:30 - '70s Gibson cases / Doubleneck case
09:28 - Gretsch case '60s
Notes
Hello friends …Uncle Larry might be snowed in, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make a little video that shines a little light on the most criminally overlooked part of the whole wide world of vintage guitars ….the guitar case.
Uncle Larry takes you through several decades of these often forgotten and highly under-appreciated vessels that kept all the guitars of yesterday in one piece.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn, you’ll complain…but mostly, you will REMEMBER.
Ladies and gentlemen…I bring you…episode one of the critically acclaimed one part one season docu-drama…”The Guitar Case”
January 10th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 388, Tom Bukovac, “The Feed Trough & The Egg Basket”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin' out to a loop, starting with bass
11:47 - What's up friends / Snow day / Fires
12:54 - Lesson: Circle of fifths & fourths
15:10 - Don't ever put all your eggs in 1 basket / Multiple feed troughs
19:25 - Pet peeve of fired musicians / Trash talking head musician / Networking
25:51 - Lesson: Faster, cleaner chords
27:28 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 double neck / Less than 100 built / Abalone Vintage
Notes
Tom Bukovac heats up the tubes in old narrow panel tweed Deluxe on a snowy day in the not so Deep South….and also recounts the ancient tale of “the basket and the trough” (that’s pronounced “troff” Stringlocker…you know, like one of those things cows eat out of?)
November 18th, 2024
Homeskoolin' Volume 362, Tom Bukovac, "The Return Of The Click"
Chapters00:00 - Showing how to play a ES-335 - AMAZING
06:15 - What's up? / Tom Bukovac introduction
07:45 - Living off playing music / Playing
10:39 - ES-335 click
11:49 - Rehearsal / Nicky G
13:07 - Putting in energy / Giving a Fuck vs. Not giving a Fuck = Disgruntlement
14:06 - Dickhead comment on Guthrie channel / Lashing out
17:21 - Cheering you up for the win / Playing
18:13 - '63 Gibson ES-335 / Light bulb cherry
19:36 - NFL - Cowboys
21:22 - PAF pickup
21:50 - Lesson: Sexy slide
Notes
Uncle Larry rambles on about the mundane, the absurd and the magnificent....
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November 11th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 358, Tom Bukovac, “The Death Of America’s Team”
Chapters00:00 - Taking that Gretsch higher
05:28 - Beatles - "The Sun King" (singing and playing)
07:24 - John Lennon bashes Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger
09:04 - Roland JC-120 (Jazz Chorus 120) / Blackface Twin Reverb
10:13 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
10:47 - Pontiac GTO delivery
11:29 - Sam Bettens
12:21 - Lesson: Raised 5th on minor
13:20 - Child rearing comments
14:10 - "Stupid Boy"?
15:35 - Twisters movie / Recycled stuff
16:26 - Originality / David Essex - Rock On / Herbie Flowers / John Deacon
18:51 - "You don't talk about women"? / Private life and class
19:56 - Otis Gibbs, Guthrie, Jedd
20:31 - NFL
23:05 - "Most amateurs get wrong"
24:58 - "Is tone in the hands?" / Nothing to do with gear
25:55 - Making up a Will and writing the letter
Notes
Uncle Larry covers a wide swath of VCB in one swell foop on this Veteran's Day holiday….
Everything from gettin’ laid to the Abbey Road medley.
here is that Lennon interview i mentioned
• John Lennon vs Mick Jagger
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November 1st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Nashville Guitar ER”
Chapters00:00 - Show off Lin Crowson shop
Notes
Lin Crowson fixes my chopper 63 Fender Azz Ass
You can reach Lin on instagram (i_got_broke_guitars) and Facebook