January 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Blues-In-Case”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' on some different equipment


Notes
Uncle Larry wants to say thank you to the boys at Music City Vintage in Nashville TN for hookin’ a brother up with a fair deal on an EXTREMELY tidy ‘65 Silvertone 1448 with the straightest neck a man could ever ask for…AND a .00005 watt tube amp built right into the case!

Raise your hand if your first guitar was one of these….

We need to start a new trend of building small modeling amps into modern guitar cases with an iPhone type speaker you can barely hear…that would be fuckin’ cool

January 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 395, Tom Bukovac, “The Dregs Of Winter”

Chapters
00:00 - Jimi-esque Blues
04:13 - Rod Stewart? Hey, friends!
05:22 - Hey, friends part 2 / NFL / Taylor Swift / Josh Allen
07:18 - Lesson: Quick pickin lick
07:54 - Goldtop Gibson Les Paul neck pickup
08:36 - Watching NFL
09:35 - Bluesy playing / Whispering guitar / Tweed Deluxe
10:56 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Hiwatt, Sound City, Orange amps / Big Daddy Don Garlits
12:43 - Sustain, not feedback
13:07 - Good guitar through crappy amp or visa versa?
14:34 - Cliche chords and dissing guitar players for using them
14:45 - Lesson: Funk voicing
15:58 - Fun work week...
16:15 - "Guilty" on dissing common guitar voicings... / Be more decisive on your choices
17:55 - Back to Fun work week / Music business / "Old car in Country video"
20:25 - "When will you be happy with your guitar collection?" / Buying, selling guitars to get what you want
22:10 - Lesson: Picking and skipping strings
22:38 - Gibson ES-150 / ES-350 Charlie Christian
23:49 - Passion - going through life without passion
26:23 - "Cool pedal?"
27:24 - Fender Precision Bass color suggestions


Notes
Uncle Larry tries to give some comforting words about the dead zone we are now entering ….now that the season is officially over.

Brace yourself friends…for the dregs of winter

it probably should be noted that in approximately 1100 videos spanning the last five years, I have never once asked you to “like” or “hit that subscribe button”….

however, if you guys ARE in fact learning some shit from these videos and you are in fact getting some real entertainment and actual enjoyment out of them, it’s never a bad idea to hit the ol' tip jar…donations are my love language...it always helps and it is always EXTREMELY appreciated

PayPal is Tombukovac@gmail.com.
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

here's that old hippie refin bass....i forgot it didn't have a guard...been a long time since i've seen this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm_KZSYSiGc

January 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Untitled”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking into an amazing melody with bass


Notes
Some Saturday morning driving music for the class...i just put this up so i didn't forget it...

just gimme a studio, some coffee with half and half, a good engineer, some synths, a drummer and a cool singer….see ya in a few hours

January 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 394, Tom Bukovac, “Electric Mistress Sunset”

Chapters
00:00 - Mellow playing
04:58 - What's Up? / Fun project Dan Auerbach / Miles Kane
08:07 - NFL games
09:00 - What pedal is this? / 70s Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress
10:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Most versatile pickup? / Most versatile guitar?
12:44 - Gretsch Harmon Booster Playboy aka Jen Fuzz
14:13 - Stalker video guy
15:01 - Gangster movies / Martin Scorsese
15:32 - Lesson: Coolest chord min9 / Gm9 [x 10 8 10 10 x] -> Dm9 [x 5 3 5 5 x] -> Cm9 [x 3 1 3 3 x]
18:19 - Lesson: Em9 [0 2 5 0 3 2] variants
21:05 - '63 Fender Telecaster


Notes
Uncle Larry returns to YouTube to discuss one of his favorite chords, one of his favorite guitars, and one of his favorite old pedals with you…

Thumb nail photo taken by Uncle Larry tonite on his way home from work.

if you feel led to donate to the channel...
my paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

January 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 393, Tom Bukovac, “Bird Believer Fever"

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! (creepy version) / NFL
02:30 - Thanks, Motor Trend
03:41 - '65 Gibson Firebird I
06:30 - Offset post bridge by Nick Drushel
09:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
09:55 - Dave Chappelle
10:23 - Lucky to have a Burst / Hard working
14:23 - Alex Harvey
15:13 - "Top 3 bands you'd watch live?" / The Cars
16:40 - "Jethro Dull"
17:11 - Strymon Brigadier
18:00 - Betting with viewers / NFL
18:55 - "Take pickguard off of Burst?"
20:02 - D'Addario NYXL / Chevrolet Monte Carlo for sale
20:49 - Peterson StoboFlip
24:54 - Tuning / Playing


Notes
this bit of comedic genius had me in tears this morning....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57pGarTBJrU

January 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin Bonus Jam, "Hippie Rock"

Chapters
00:00 - Practice


Notes
Leo Bukovac shows off his 'lectric drums and his bad ass 9 year old pocket...while Uncle Larry caterwauls along .

January 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Our Legacy”

Chapters
00:00 - After hours dropbox


Notes
It should be our goal to leave this world in better condition than we found it in friends…

Besides my children and my help designing the music city bridge, this may be I consider my greatest contribution to mankind hahahaaa

January 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 392, Tom Bukovac, “Burst Believer Fever”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends (creepy version) / Running out of gas
03:00 - Teaching the song "Signs"
04:25 - Mailbox Burst / History of the Burst
13:00 - Alex Harvey Band - Faith Healer
13:57 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Thanks for videos
14:58 - Homeskoolin' family
15:55 - Lady Madonna improve
16:20 - Alfred Hitchcock intro
17:30 - Losing weight / Richard Simmons
18:55 - Hockey
19:20 - Jeff Beck mods
20:19 - Tom Bukovac vs Charlie Davidson vs Devin Falco
22:20 - Gibson Burst
28:33 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry restrings 8 6785 (Jenny Jenny…who can I turn to?) whilst slaving over a hot slab of recent VCB after a long day at the session mill.

here is a fascinating video you have probably already seen...but if you haven't, you're welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwQPwfZvlY

January 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 391, Tom Bukovac, “Cable TV Special”

Chapters
00:00 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special / No refret restring


Notes
Uncle Larry prepares for another day at the mill and waxes rhapsodic about the early days of television.

January 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 390, Tom Bukovac, “Hello...1983 Calling….”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends (creepy version)
00:53 - '83 Gibson Les Paul Studio with D'Addario 43-10
01:35 - Gibson serial number year
02:55 - Top wrap and break angle / Tim Shaw pickups
05:10 - Winder
06:30 - Selling house
25:00 - Playing
28:35 - Gibson SG comparison
31:00 - Gibson LP Studio playing and lowering pickups / Low end shaved off


Notes
Uncle Larry undresses a 1983 Les Paul Studio on national television.

The Guthrie/Jedd/Uncle Larry Guitar Party is coming to Chicago in early February...
Two nights At The Martyr's Club
Feb 7&8, that's a Friday And Saturday friends


If you are enjoying these ramblings, the tip jar is never too far away friends..
PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

January 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 389, Tom Bukovac, “The 101 Club”

Chapters
00:00 - Looping with brethren instruments
09:31 - Hello, friends! / Blake Shelton
12:26 - Don't feel like talking / Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster & matching Fender Precision Bass
15:19 - 5 way switch, position 2 and 4 are too dark / Forgotten sound


Notes
Uncle Larry REALLY felt like playing some guitar (and bass) tonite after getting home from day two of tracking with dearest Blake Shelton at the legendary Blackbird Studios in downtown Nashville TN.

Blakes new album is finally “in the can” after the last three years of working on it.

Loving these two old instruments that are featured in this little poorly lit video….(replete with the phone falling right off the “camera stand” in the heat of battle) and thought you guys might enjoy seeing them together.

They have known each other in a past life….

These two rosewood board sex kittens were built right on the cusp of when the original Fender factory in Fullerton was taken over by the CBS bean counters…both instruments are very close in serial number…and they both have aged to the EXACT same greenish hue from their original Lake Placid Blue .

If anyone out there has the Telecaster to compete the set I’m all ears

Thanks for watching friends.


oh, and if you guys want to learn about "advanced phrasing techniques" check out this fella....
i've been told it's VERY deep stuff, but i don't quite understand it yet....maybe some of you guys can help me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWdUDiGhSv0

January 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Lunch Talk”

Chapters
00:00 - Picking Gordon Mote's brain


Notes
Starring Gordon Mote and Bryan Sutton…this is what happens when a couple guys get done eating earlier than the rest of the people on the session ….musicians get bored so easily.

Thanks for watching my dear friends

January 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “One More For The Dokta”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing away / Hello friends! / Remembering a friend


Notes
Today marks the 3 year of the passing of one Richard Alan Reith from Mentor Ohio

We knew him by the nickname “The Doctor”…which inevitably got morphed into “The Dokta”….but to some, he was “Uncle Rick”

Rest in peace my brother

here he is playing my old p bass 9 years ago

January 10th, 2025

The Guitar Case…..A Brief History

Chapters
00:00 - 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”

Chapters
00:00 - 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?)

January 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Blackbird Studio Repair Kiosk”

Chapters
00:00 - Blackbird Studios and gear showcase
01:30 - Begin showing gear


Notes
Hello friends, a special treat today

Nick Wood from Blackbird Studio shows us how to keep a major recording studio running

January 8th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 387, Tom Bukovac, “Martin Gibson"

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic shootout / Martin
01:28 - Gibson (Electric Light Orchestra / ELO - Telephone Line)
03:40 - Martin vs Gibson
04:06 - Old guitars started with (Crestline SG copy, Aria Tele Custom, 1979 Les Paul Deluxe)
06:54 - Band started out with / Drummer for Barbara Mandrell / Move to Nashville
09:41 - Son seeing the industry from the inside (Blackbird Studio)
10:30 - Thanks for previous video / P90s
11:59 - Bukovac hate week / Lying people on videos / Watching an argument
16:54 - Strong opinions / Thanks for support / Triple in the studio / Blake Shelton
19:10 - Lesson: The claw picking


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya a quick example of the vast difference between the sound of a Martin acoustic and an old Gibson acoustic …

If you are indeed getting something useful out of this channel and you feel led to throw a little something in the tip jar here ya go

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

January 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 386, Tom Bukovac, “Mic It Up”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful sounds from the 90s
08:43 - Hello, friends! / MN Chorus / Talking Scott Baggett / Christmas lights
10:40 - Loading out shows / Bands and being a bass player
12:16 - Phases of guitar players life
13:53 - Tube amps vs modelers / Oxbox
15:27 - Miking an amp / Different kinds of mics
19:37 - Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix
20:20 - Lesson: Demonstration of miking an amp (video)



Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dynamic subtleties and tonal possibilities of a couple 70 year old P90s and gets into some deep talks regarding mic’ing tube amplifiers

the microphone tutorial at the end was made by my dear friend Drew Bollman....engineer to the stars...
thank you my dear man

January 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Christmas Gift Review Pt. 1”

Chapters
00:00 - Battery tester product


Notes
Hello friends, you may be as skeptical as I originally was about an item like this…

but I gotta tell ya….after having it for a couple weeks now, I literally cannot even picture what my life was like before this amazing device came along….

The Battery Daddy by Ontel

It completely won me over and now…
Now I am a believer

January 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 385, Tom Bukovac, “Monday Night Humbuckin'"

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / NFL Detroit / Pickups / Updates


Notes
Uncle Larry strings up his dear son’s 100 dollar project guitar that he spent two days painting,
and answers some random VCB from his trusty iPad.

Special thank you to Nick D at Glaser Instruments for helping facilitate a young man’s six string dream...i appreciate it bro

here's that cool website i mentioned for looking up who played on what and searching credits...
https://www.muso.ai/

this was the original site people used to use to search credits before AI
https://www.allmusic.com/

they are both cool