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March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 201, Tom Bukovac, "Pedalmania!!"
Chapters00:00 - Some raunchy guitar
01:45 - Hi, friends! / Many videos and thanks
03:20 - Gear review demo / Pedal nuisance
05:30 - Empress - Compressor / Greer - Black Mountain / Eastside Music Supply - Brown Amplification Atom / Coppersound Killswitch
08:00 - Base sound (amp and reverb)
09:00 - Brown Amplification Atom
10:15 - Black Mountain Crunch Drive / Lightspeed
13:20 - Proud of this channel and Positive energy
13:55 - Roger Mayer Voodoo
14:30 - Compressor
17:10 - Killswitch
Notes
Uncle Larry makes an exception to his long standing rule of not doing gear demos on his channel....by the way...it's Friday in my mind.
March 16th, 2023
Homeskoolin' VOLUME 200!!!! "A Special Treat"
Chapters00:00 - Intro 200th episode / Pacifico and wine
03:08 - Homeskoolin' thanks / Dann Huff as a producer
06:18 - Collaboration and dictatorship / No right way to finish line
12:24 - Moment knew when making big
15:45 - Dann's take on guitar tone
18:00 - Dann bought Tom's pedalboard
18:53 - No greatest tone / Leslie West story
21:00 - Van Halen (tuning)
23:15 - Midrange / Small guitar tones
27:00 - Cool Dann story (Van Halen)
30:50 - Bass content with guitars
34:00 - Most genious overdubbing
35:50 - Great guitar tones / Billy Gibbons stories and Guthrie Trapp
38:19 - Great tones continued / Billy Gibbons - Jesus Just Left Chicago
41:16 - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
43:08 - 50% more distortion / Distortion and guitar
47:22 - Marshall Plexi tone / Foreigner - Hot Blooded / Greatest power chord Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
53:45 - Roxy Music - Love is the Drug solo
55:55 - That one note of Steely Dan
58:10 - Cooper Time Cube - 100 ft of garden hose (doubling effect) / Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
63:10 - Steve Miller Band
Notes
One of my favorite humans on this planet
Sweet Dann Huff
March 13th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 199, Tom Bukovac, "The One Before 200"
Chapters00:00 - Rockin' it
03:00 - Uncle Larry home coming / Guthrie studio
05:08 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ziggy prints
06:15 - Studio session
06:57 - Favorite show of all / Thanks for this vehicle to deliver
08:30 - Having albums of your own
09:50 - Firebird 5 and models
11:21 - Album joke with guitar terms as song names
12:20 - Prediction of 1,000,000 subscribers / Keeping it real
13:20 - Return of Rolling Rock, but prefer beer in general
13:45 - YouTube is the only one worth as shit part II / Mercedes clock
15:10 - BTPA cables
15:28 - Cream & Eric Clapton / How music makes a person feel
17:18 - New viewers and comments
18:00 - KISS / Ace Frehley - Rip It Out
19:20 - 200th episode / Going from Major to minor
Notes
Uncle Larry reminisces fondly about today's studio happenings and stuffs his arm way up inside the VCB pipe to remove some clogged comments.
Thanks for watching the show people...we got a pretty good thing going here.
...and speaking of good things, check out this bad boy
Steve Cox....a dear old friend from Cleveland,
He taught a young Uncle Larry some very valuable musical lessons back when Larry was just a mixed up kid living in some shit rental house with a carpeted kitchen in Antioch.
I owe Steve a lot.....i still use some of the things he showed me on a daily basis...and ol' Larry never forgets anyone who helped him anywhere along "the journey".
March 12th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 198, Tom Bukovac "Ember Red Destruction Machine"
Chapters00:00 - Boogie with some Rolling slide guitar
02:20 - Just Larry / No NFL / CD Collection / 80,000 Subscribers
03:39 - Michael Rhodes funeral
05:20 - Guthrie and album completion
05:55 - New Morgan Wallen record
07:00 - Favorite question: Every band or artist everyone likes except you?
08:38 - BTPA Cables - really cool
09:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / CDs / David and David
10:58 - Reaching far for an audience / YouTube is the only Social Media outlet worth a shit
12:00 - Newfoundland customs agent story
13:42 - '66 Gibson Firebird, non-reverse, P90, destruction machine
14:22 - 3rd & Lindsley remix DVD coming out
Notes
Uncle Larry gets busy with a tweed big box Tremolux with the channels jumped by a high quality BTPA cable.
and totally unrelated....great example of what I'm always talking about in terms of getting on a cool part and STAYING WITH IT...if you ever deviate from it there better be a DAMN GOOD reason.
March 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Vintage Long Form Session B Roll "Flower Power"
Chapters00:00 - Sessions: The work into forming a song
Notes
Taking you waaaaaay back to the chilly cold February of 2023....Larry was holed up for a few days in a home studio out by the airport to produce a few tracks for his dear old buddy Bobby "Gateweed" Gatewood from Cleveland Ohio. Bobby and Uncle Larry have been friends since the late 80's when Bobby originally hired Uncle Larry to play bass in his cover band called Calabash.
Every few years or so Bobby slips away from his cushy life as the mayor of Put-In-Bay Ohio and cruises down to Nashtown to make a record with the Nashville cats.
We are working at the legendary Headroom Studio in Donelson here and the engineer you are seeing here in this video is my dear old pal Rick "Sweet Ricky D" Delima. Rick's sweet wife Stacy helped out on the project as well with some lyrics and backing vox...and some delicious lunches.
Tasty live drums being provided by another fellow Clevelander, sweet Shawn Fichter....one of the sweetest human beings to ever inhabit this planet.
Bobby originally brought this tune in as an uptempo boogie woogie kinda thing...but i thought the sentiment of the song and the introspective lyric "all i was trying to do was find me" might possibly be better served by a wistful longing 60's hippie vibe, with some janglin' stoner guitars...so we proceeded down that path.
Then later on, after some group lyric re-writing and the addition of David "Bird Dog" Dorn's B-3 and bunch of tasty Haight-Ashbury guitars and some folky holllowbody bass, this track turned out fantastic.
When it's finished and mixed i will play it for ya.
totally unrelated:
Here's an old song from one of Bobby's earlier records (2007) that i produced when we were all very much younger...."Did We Try?"
This track has some bad ass cats on it....Joe Vitale on drums, Will Owsley on rhythm guitar. David Santos on bass, Mark T Jordan on keys, Troy Johnson on backing vox, Larry on lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8McGEgFAew&t=0s
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March 8th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 197, Tom Bukovac, "Disraeli Beers"
Chapters00:00 - Vocal leading song
00:00 - Harmony H1260 Sovereign converted by James Burkett comparison
01:10 - Original Harmony Sovereign
02:22 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / L6-S (not pissing anyone off)
02:52 - James Burkett Harmony / Amazing picking
04:20 - Comment Bin / Ned Steinberger and planet waves capo / Phenomenon movie
05:30 - Manic Mechanic and Irsay gig / Billy Gibbons story
06:30 - Steve Farrone drummer / Session hire
07:00 - 1958 Flying Vs and Explorers
08:26 - Neil Peart / Stewart Copeland
09:53 - Ovation Breadwinner
10:42 - Ginger Baker and pissing people off / Cream
12:25 - Later school start time
12:54 - Stephen Stills rips into Billy Branch
13:25 - Show demographic
14:10 - Toast and vacuums (V15)
15:35 - IQ and voice leading / Smart people
16:43 - Richie Hayward and Little Feat
17:00 - Fender Mustang ugly?
17:25 - Lesson: Hard picking scale
18:30 - Gear doesn't matter?
Notes
I tried to post this this morning before work, but the upload failed...but here we go, 8 hours later...
March 2nd, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 195, Tom Bukovac, "Take Your Blues Down"
Chapters00:00 - Cars - Let the Good Times Roll / jammin'
01:44 - Checking in
02:38 - Old Cars song / Darren in Cars tribute band
03:08 - Lesson: Harmonic bit of "Let the Good Times Roll"
03:50 - Thanks for comments / Connection all over the world / New viewers
05:50 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) Numbskull : FailedRockStar : StringLocker
06:15 - What inspires you more: Guitar or Amp?
06:53 - Hybrid picking style and making a living
07:54 - "Sad music from a sad man"
08:25 - What style of music? / Caveman Rock to Jazzer
09:33 - Blues over Major
10:35 - Example: Blues over Major
12:28 - What style is left? / Allan Holdsworth
13:42 - Taxes and sports
15:30 - Lesson: Speed picking thing / Loose wrist
18:09 - Bridge pickup on Duesenberg vs Les Paul "Burst"
18:20 - Duesenberg pickup height
18:45 - Duesenberg: Great creamy, crunchy lead tone / Powerful crunch playing
19:45 - Burst: Growling, howling, singing amazing tone of the Les Paul
20:35 - Les Paul pickup height
Notes
Uncle Larry rips into the viewer comment bin with a vengeance
March 1st, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "Ipswich Suffolk Foxhall Ditton Surrey On The Thames Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Working those fingers with a little reverb.
Notes
Uncle Larry tries to get blood out of a Firebird.
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February 27th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 194, Tom Bukovac, "The Unseen World"
Chapters00:00 - Some plucking around
01:30 - Hello, everyone!
03:11 - Senn guitar
03:22 - Paper or plastic / "Save the planet"
04:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / '60 Tweed Princeton / Strat and pickups
05:54 - Lynyrd Skynyrd thanks
06:25 - New pre-scribers / Rotten apples and hiding users
07:23 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 Hollowbody Doubleneck / Story
10:54 - East Ohio thanks
11:36 - Lesson: Tablature chord Dmin7 / "Instant Larry"
12:51 - Shameless plug
14:25 - Outro playing
Notes
Monday morning coffee talk and VCB with Larry.
link to COMFY HOMESKOOLIN MERCH
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/me...
link to TRIP THE WITCH CD's and T SHIRTS
https://shop.bandwear.com/tripthewitch
and our boy ziggy at ziggysartstudio.com has a little something special planned to commemorate the 200th Homeskoolin' episode
and totally unrelated.....as ludicrous as this is....i GUARANTEE you won't be able to stop watching it til the end
February 25th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "East Ohio Blues"
Chapters00:00 - Building and delivering a heartfelt tune
Notes
for all the folks that woke up one day and discovered that their whole town had been poisoned by a toxic train goin off the tracks...coulda happened to anybody anywhere.
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February 23rd, 2023
Homeskoolin ' Volume 193, Tom Bukovac, "The Hounds Of Hell"
Chapters00:00 - Starting out with the "Hounds of Hell" / Hello, friends!
01:22 - Lynryd Skynyrd love
02:55 - Lesson: Unison bend - you know that one thing
03:45 - Skynyrd using it to great effect
04:33 - "Working for MCA" study
05:55 - Devilish bend / Prog music
06:50 - Lesson: Overbending the root note (Tony Iommi too) / "Hounds of Hell"
07:40 - "Poison Whiskey"
08:45 - Example of "Hounds of Hell" (Poison Whiskey)
10:00 - "I Ain't the One" / Reverse cymbals
10:37 - Good hook (I Ain't the One)
10:49 - Behind the solo / Rehearsal and work
11:28 - Genius example and never the same (I Ain't the One)
12:13 - Weird groups of 3 / So tight and rehearsed
12:48 - The Allman Brothers Band vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd (Don't get pissed)
13:25 - Iron fist of Ronnie Van Zant
14:30 - Back to weird transistions (Saturday Night Special) / Counting out bars
Notes
Early morning bed head Larry gets a little choked up reminiscing about one of his alltime favorite bands.
February 18th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 192, Tom Bukovac, "The Limitations Of Incarnation"
Chapters00:00 - Acoustic jamming
04:18 - It's Larry / Rig Rundown
05:10 - Long session
05:42 - Tuning and playing
06:48 - Hillbilly b7?
09:03 - Loose and limber hands
09:49 - Willie Nelson is NOT dead / Stories about mother
14:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Acoustic guitar and scratches
15:19 - Derek Trucks / Derek Trucks story
16:45 - Beating the hell out of an instrument / Dynamics
17:50 - Burt Bacharach
19:30 - Otis Gibbs
19:53 - Smoke some weed / Rick / Beer
21:42 - Why are we here? / Life
Notes
If you like the ones where Larry just rambles on and on...well...then this one is for YOU
February 15th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus "Northeast Ohio Outlaw"
Chapters00:00 - Playing: Willie Nelson - Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Notes
No person on this earth has ever been a bigger Willie fan than my dear departed mother Norma who moved on many years ago.
This one goes out to her....
This particular tune was from back in the old days when they really hadn't figured out how to write a great country song yet...ya' know, like they do nowadays.
I mean, just look at these amateur hour lyrics...
"If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing and hung around a while
Trying to keep your spirits up and your fever down
I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Fly on, fly on past, the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up than see you down
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground.
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground."
February 10th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Raunch Dressing”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin finger pickin / Full-blown rock
03:22 - '60 Fender Tweed Princeton
04:00 - Pedalboard look
04:27 - 80's Super Champ
04:50 - '63 Gibson SG
Notes
Hello friends….contact me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want the 63 SG (11.5k) or the Super Champ (1400.00)
Gonna be a week or so until the Super Champ is ready to go (unless you fix amps yourself)…it has a noisy tube that i would like to have fixed before i sell it.
Larry don’t sell no bullshit.
Buyer must pick up in person. Cash deals only. No shipping….unless of course there wa$ $ome kind of con$iderable incentive to do $o.....
February 9th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ “EXTREMELY Rare and Unexpected Gear Related Bonus Video”
Chapters00:00 - Hello, friends! / Mini-humbuckers vs. Firebird pickups
01:25 - Mini-humbucker, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Les Paul)
02:36 - Firebird pickup, bridge, tone on 10 demo (Firebird)
03:30 - What do we notice? / Differences
04:06 - Nobels & Firebird pickup
05:00 - Nobels & Mini-humbucker
Notes
Your dear uncle shines some light on the age old comparison between “firebird pickups” and “regular mini humbuckers” as they are known on the street.
so...what do YOU hear dear Homeskoolers??
Test notes:
a) both guitars tuned down a half step and outfitted with only the finest roundwound strings.
b) a 1954 fender tweed deluxe vacuum tube amplifier and a no-balls odr-1 overdrive pedal were used as a control.
February 1st, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Daily Double Bonus “The BONG”
Chapters00:00 - Some soulful playing as always
01:16 - Gibson 335 and getting it to sound great
04:01 - Norman Blake story: different brand strings
Notes
uhhhhh…probably not the kind of bong you guys are thinking of…
i'm talking about the acoustic PURITY of the sound of each individual string...and the SUSTAIN....
the point of contact....the shit that can make a lifer guitar player slowly descend into the pit of madness when it ain't right....
Special thanks to Nick from Glaser Instruments for doing an amazing job refretting this old dog…nice work my man.
Thanks for watching people…and for the kind words…and for the generosity
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January 27th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Public Service Announcement “MCB Locking Studs”
Chapters00:00 - Little shreddin'
00:23 - Hello, friends! / Gold Top and Music City Bridge update
Notes
Uncle Larry demonstrates the wondrous new development from the boys at Music City Bridge on some extremely heavy borrowed new goldtop with a gigantic neck shape that was never found in nature.
https://musiccitybridge.com
https://youtu.be/MEv3r5EwAMQ
January 26th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Greyhounds On Ice”
Chapters00:00 - Space jam
Notes
A little jam to calm the nerves as football season draws to a close.
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January 25th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Williamson County Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Finger pickin' with the best of them
Notes
Uncle Larry conjures some Southern sounds from an instrument born in Kalamazoo.
Sorry I ain't been around cats.....been W-O-R-K-I-N-G my hillbilly ASS off.
TAGS
January 13th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 187, Tom Bukovac, “From The Hills Of Northeast Ohio”
Chapters00:00 - Great fun with Gordon Mote and friends / Pickin' some Country
01:56 - Hello, cats!
03:30 - Country licks on the SG
04:35 - Lesson: Sliding 6ths
07:09 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Best kid books
09:28 - Session musician conversations and landscape?
13:10 - Hunting guitars?
14:45 - Great live band / Fender Blackfaces pointing right at you
18:27 - Tuning Nazi guy / Doing better on sound
20:10 - Agreement on when musicians are 13 and what they are listening to
Notes
Uncle Larry likes to pick a simple country and western song once in a while.
Intro footage taken by the legendary John Jarvis