May 20th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “At The Hop”

Chapters
00:00 - Picking technique


Notes
So, i’m working on this reallllly fucking hard picking technique that kinda simulates a fast slapback delay pedal but with no effects…

For God’s sake people…do not attempt this at home without adult supervision.

May 20th, 2024

Owners Manual for Uncle Larry’s Sleepy Time Calm Relaxation Elixir

Chapters
00:00 - Good morning / "Fresh outta bed", dick comment
00:43 - Thanks and bringing a lesson
01:14 - Lesson 1: Rhythm aerobic exercise / Mute
03:18 - Lesson 2: Hybrid picking
04:09 - Lesson 3: Bob Britt cut-off picking
05:17 - Lesson 4: Chromatic bridge to rhythm
06:27 - Lesson 5: Inversion chromatic from Bb
06:46 - Lesson 6: All-time favorite lick back to whole
07:50 - Lesson 7: Dmaj pull down to IV chord unison bend into the ending
09:00 -Ending comments


Notes
Just some old barrel house rock and roll rhythm guitar that doesn’t like that terribly difficult…until you try it

May 19th, 2024

Uncle Larry’s Sleepy Time Calm Relaxation Elixir

Chapters
00:00 - Lighting that Firebird on fire


Notes
This one goes out to String Locker and all the other Homeskoolers who hate Steely Dan and reverb pedals.

Played on Fred Flintstone's 63 Firebird I....

May 18th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “A Cool Chopper From The Early Days Of 501chorusecho”

Chapters
00:00 - Montage
00:17 - Hey, friends! / Special guest guitar player / Talent show
01:55 - Jeff Senn selling Princeton Reverb
02:17 - Jerry Reed - Amos Moses (guitar and singing tangent)
03:36 - '73 Princeton Reverb garage sale


Notes
Todays lesson? Amps can be choppers too friends…

Contact me if you want this one that was used in this ancient video you may recall...
of a much younger Larry....without a care in the world....many years prior to "The Great Trilogy Of Pain" ....

Tom Bukovac and his Original Senn Ful...

1500 CASH LOCAL PICKUP IN NASHVILLE ONLY

i am selling this for my friend Jeff, so you will have to meet up with him

It’s probably gonna go quick so as soon after it sells I’ll post and pin a comment saying it’s sold and then, I beg you….after that PLEASE don’t flood me with a million emails after that asking if it’s still available….PLEASE i beg you


Special thanks to all who came out to throw down at the Underdog last night…one of the funnest gigs i have ever played....no shit.
GT is bringing killer live music back to this great city and i am proud to be a small part of it in any way

May 16th, 2024

Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam "Parallel O'Graham"

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming away that beautiful day


Notes
The lazy trees sway in ghostly harmony while Uncle Larry plows the back forty with a cool southern breeze at his back....
the unmistakable scent of late spring fills the ancient valley with fleeting memories of youth that dance in the wind without a single care...

where the hell did I put that cooler?
Lord I need a drink

May 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “The Ballad of Fernandes Valenzuela”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking the Blues
04:00 - Hello, friends! / Working hard
04:26 - Early '80s Japan (MIJ) Fernandes TE-1N / Playing
06:27 - Guthrie thanks and vinyl


Notes
1000 new "In Stereo" CD's are coming in early next week...
"In Stereo" vinyl will ship in early July...
thank you for your patience and your kind words about the record friends...we appreciate it more than you know

you WILL get your merchandise you ordered friends...we have a team of extremely smart conscientious people taking care of all that, email with any concerns
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

in this video...
Uncle Larry leans IN to the doink....some might even say emBRACEs the doink....on this whipped old circa early 80's Fernandes Tele straight from Japan...

as Donald Fagen once said in his book "Eminent Hipsters" "to a Westerner, being in Japan is akin to being inside of a pinball machine"

if you wanna go back to being in your 20's again, check out the brand new Vlog from the CLIFFS....you remember these guys don't ya?
that bad ass little band that i produced a while back of young cats from Bloomington that can ACTUALLY PLAY their instruments and sing in tune??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDvF0cxSPw

May 14th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 309, Tom Bukovac, “From Dusk Til Dawn”

Chapters
00:00 - The Blues coming to town
04:10 - Bad jacks / Hey, friends! / Suffering the Summer
05:40 - Cool gifts / Charles Bukowski Envelope Filter
07:38 - Not really a wah or filter user
08:34 - Shit in life that really works (Advil, Dawn, Music City Bridge, etc.)
09:25 - Amazon is making pedals now
10:35 - Base tone sound
11:30 - Amazon Distortion / Liking Amazon
13:00 - Thanks / Building & writing a song
15:40 - Techniques ("devices"), styles, mixing it up
17:30 - Killer show "Rust Valley Restorers" with Mike Hall


Notes
Uncle Larry revels in late spring with a 57 PAF goldie and a hot cuppa joe

....and he tries out a coupla pedals too....


more CD's are coming early next week....1500 have already sold and we hastily ordered 1000 more cuz we didn't think we were gonna sell that many

Vinyl coming very soon

thank you for your patience friends

May 13th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Wire Choir ‘75”

Chapters
00:00 - Amazing chords


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a trip back to the 70’s on an old pawn shop Guild 12 string

May 13th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 308, “In Stereo” Album Review (well back half anyway)

Chapters
00:00 - Downtown Nashville
00:28 - Playing some heavy stuff
01:27 - Ehlo, friends! / Happy Mother's Day
02:10 - Going over "In Stereo" back half of album and thanks
03:04 - "A shopping accident" story (Paragon Mills)
03:36 - Ibanez "lawsuit"
03:48 - Lab Series L5
04:27 - Lab Series L5 demonstration
05:35 - Track #6 and on deep dive


Notes
People come to Nashville from all over the world to drink 10 dollar draft beers and hear five different songs playing all at once in the 110 degree open air of Broadway…I mean, who wouldn’t?

if you wanna check out this record here's the link:
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

if you wanna throw something in the PayPal tip jar for dear Uncle Larry:
tombuovac@gmail.com

or venmo:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

May 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Petit Bouche”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - 1950 Petit Bouche / Django Reinhardt sound (Jazz)
01:28 - Petit Bouche playing / That tone
02:40 - '30 Gibson L-5 (George's loudest ever heard)
03:38 - L-5 playing
04:46 - "I can play Foghat"
05:10 - Comparison of guitars
06:00 - Stromberg vs. L-5
06:30 - What do you like best?


Notes
Hello friends…I just wanted to do a quick video with George after I fell absolutely in love with both of these KILLER guitars, even though I have no idea how to play them…

If any of you guys out there play this type of music i can tell you for a FACT that either of these old guitars are a no brainer.

May 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 307, Tom Bukovac, “Next Stop, Buffalo”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing that guitar!
04:43 - Duesenberg Session Man / Fender Pro Reverb
05:29 - Ryman update, Hermanos Gutiérrez / Quiet, instrumental performances
07:17 - Best Duesenberg Session Man / Piezo?
08:35 - "What I really want to say"
10:00 - Dear friend passed away
11:27 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / People pleaser vs. brutal honesty
14:04 - You're supposed to be lost in your 20s
15:40 - In Stereo record / Create something you like / Watching careers wax and wane
18:02 - Big producer story / Taylor Swift and Sarah Buxton
21:13 - Movies to watch: "Being There", "Smoke", "Simple Plan", "Skin"


Notes
Uncle Larry plunks on his namesake guitar and regales the Homeskoolers with story time.

May 7th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ PSA “Readin’ and Ryman”

Chapters
00:00 - Beatles playing
00:41 - Hello and announcement with Hermanos Gutiérrez
02:18 - Ray Renfro - Cleveland Browns (NFL card)


Notes
A quick PSA from Larry that might cure any boredom you might incur this evening

May 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “No User Serviceable Parts Inside”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming along
00:37 - Hey friends! / Gildan
01:26 - '56 Gibson Les Paul Special
02:15 - Strymon Flint Reverb
03:03 - Reverb comparison
03:33 - Back to the guitar
05:21 - Another '58 Gibson Les Paul Special
06:08 - Quarter inch up on the pickup
07:21 - Back to the '56 bridge pickup / Pukey middle sound
08:16 - Bukovac & Guthrie Record


Notes
Don’t adjust your set, you are not seeing double…it's just two TV specials from the golden age…

In the video I failed to mention that the neck on the 56 that’s for sale is a good bit chunkier than the one on my '=58.

If interested email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

to buy the Guthrie Trapp "In Stereo" record click here friends

https://bakedalaskarecords.com/products/in-stereo-cd

May 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 306, Tom Bukovac, “In Stereo” Album Review” (well, first half anyway)

Chapters
00:00 - Sliding and a pickin'
00:20 - Good morning / "In Stereo" record deep dive setup
01:27 - Coffee and not giving a fuck
02:45 - Folgers Classic Roast is the Gildan of coffee
03:33 - Beer snobs / Being picky
04:04 - "In Stereo" talk
05:10 - Tracks listing order, dissection
06:05 - Track sequencing


Notes
Uncle Larry goes through the first few tracks of the new album with you ….

If you haven’t heard the record yet you should save this video to watch later…seriously

here is the link to buy the record
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

Unrelated, if any of you guys are looking for a bangin 56 les paul tv special I have one here for sale. A friend brought it over…he wants 15k plus domestic US shipping for it

It’s a damn nice guitar

Cons:
Old Grovers clearly put on a million years ago, original keys not included

Refretted with slightly larger than original sized frets

Comes in a 70s Gibson les paul case

Pros:
Nice comfortable weight

Beautiful fairly worn original TV finish with no overspray and no repairs whatsoever

Big chunky kick ass neck

It’s already got a music city bridge on it

all original parts otherwise

This guitar plays great, sounds great, looks great

Email me for photos at tombukovac@gmail.com

May 4th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Most Pimp Gibson Amp Of All Time”

Chapters
00:00 - Robots, bikes, Schwinn, Brett Papa
03:18 - '60 Gibson GA-83S
06:13 - Playing the GA-83S
07:28 - Back in the day (Ebo)
08:05 - Switching center speaker off / Leslie


Notes
If you can stick around through the opening “collage” you can cast thine orbs upon the rarest unicorn of an amp that ever rolled out of Kalamazoo

The 1960 Gibson GA-83S stereo tube amp

6BQ5 (EL-84) power tubes
5 speakers
one 12” and four 8”
stereo “vib-trem”…which is like nature’s univibe….

Uncle Larry has been actively hunting one of these exotic beasts for probably 15 years…previous to this one, he has only seen one in real life in his 55 years on this planet

This was undoubtedly Gibson’s alltime flagship amplifier and certainly their most indulgent design statement in the history of the Gibson amp line-up…they probably made less than 100 of these total …and I’m pretty sure they were all built in 1960

Magical times back in these days…the crazy things that these brilliant engineers were doing with vacuum tubes at companies like magnatone, fender, marshall, valco, danelectro and vox…

Gibson and Gretsch both pushed in all their chips banking that stereo was gonna be the wave of the future…but the future had other plans.

May 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 305, Tom Bukovac, “That Confounded Bridge”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' some chords
02:20 - Far out pickin' pattern
03:08 - Yo'! / Gibson Maestro GA-45
04:07 - Song form (very important) / "Fixing a broken song"
08:15 - Lesson: "The Middle Eight"
09:43 - Best bridges of all time: 38 Special - Caught Up In You
12:00 - Back half of the bridge / Low harmony
12:33 - Working with Donnie & Johnny Van Zant
13:11 - Bridge is even better #2: Badfinger - Baby Blue
14:50 - Best bridge of all: Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (Reggie Young)
16:53 - Good bridge: Aerosmith - Living On The Edge


Notes
Uncle Larry gives ya a little look into the world of song form….and a magical device that the British call “the middle eight”

Oh, and the click bait thumbnail has absolutely NOTHING to do with this video but I just thought some of you motorheads out there might dig takin a gander at the 71 396 Camaro I owned for a while back before my dear boys were born

If you like these silly videos then maybe something in the tip jar…

If you hate them, then don’t…

My PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com

My Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

May 3rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “He Bought What??”

Chapters
00:00 - Unboxing video ('97 Fender Telecaster - Made in Japan (MIJ))
04:23 - Reveal / Tuning
06:00 - Playing
08:08 - Setup and acoustically
08:43 - '66 Fender Telecaster
09:04 - '66 Tele plugged in
10:08 - MIJ Tele plugged in
11:30 - '66 Tele
12:20 - MIJ Tele
12:57 - Highly recommend '90's MIJ Fender


Notes
I guaranTEE you that none of you guys saw this coming….

May 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 304, Tom Bukovac, “The European Way”

Chapters
00:00 - Picking at the Blues
07:55 - Flimsy pick? / Morning beer / Playing
09:43 - What a 335! / "The Click" and Larry Carlton on Steeley Dan record
10:43 - Ted Williams & Mark McGuire story ("Bat burn")
11:51 - Brett Papas and video work
12:10 - Lesson: Loose and from the wrist
13:43 - "Bat burner" Ted Williams
14:29 - '60 Gibson ES-335 / Thin, fast, controllable neck
15:38 - The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind interpretation
16:30 - House with the pool / Inner Clevelander
17:29 - May have to sell '57 Goldtop
18:35 - Lesson: Cool lick that makes your bass player give you a look


Notes
Uncle Larry pulls out of San Pedro late one night and shakes it on down into overdrive…

This one is chock full of licks you can steal…brought to you by none other than Peter Blacklarge.

Hope you enjoy these videos friends.

May 1st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 303, Tom Bukovac, “Father And Son”

Chapters
00:00 - Putting the chords back in music
03:21 - Good morning, Homeskoolers'! / Gretsch 6120 White Falcon
03:45 - "Listen to that amp"
05:00 - Thanks for Guthrie record
06:00 - Scars of the face and stories / "His name is Robert Paulson" (Fight Club)
09:00 - Kids' lesson / Keeping kids from seeing what they shouldn't see
11:41 - Lesson: Tough guy chords / Cheesy 3rds / Tough guy E [0 2 2 4 0 0] / Connector E [4 x 2 4 x x]
15:30 - Going through the Guthrie record


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about every man’s worst fear…trying to shield their children from the horrors that come through ALL the screens…the screens are EVERYWHERE and they are relentless

Link for new record
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/


if you guys are getting something out of these videos, the PayPal tip jar is always open...
tombukovac@user-wz3gw1pt3i
so is the venmo one
@Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated, if you want to take an unfortunate look at what REAL crazy actually looks like, dig some of this...every day it's something different with this guy....he comes after me, tim pierce, guthrie, rhett shull etc..... crazy is all around us everywhere...i'm so used to it i barely notice it anymore, but this guy has a particularly big mouth and he is extra annoying.

oy...just be careful putting yourself out there people..if you can't handle weirdos you should seriously consider another line of work.

• May 1 Tom Bukovac CHALLENGED by GRAND...

on a much brighter note, here is a fuckin cool track from an amazing album that came out 20 years ago that sadly no one ever heard....this record was way ahead of its time
• Soul Back

April 30th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ PSA “MIDNITE TONITE!!”

Chapters
00:00 - Tom Bukovac & Guthrie Trapp record release


Notes
Rock and roll lads

https://bakedalaskarecords.com/