June 9th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Take Two�

Chapters
00:00 - Heart - Little Queen cover in the studio


Notes
This is the second take of the Amazing Dawgs playing “Little Queen” at yesterdays rehearsal…not too shabby, but it will get way better.

Guest vocalist is the amazing Criss “Sabbath” Cain….he is the band photographer that tours with us. Coolest dude on earth, he is always kind enough to sit in for Ann at soundchecks and rehearsals, because any real musician absolutely HATES playing without a singer.

The back half of this clip features a 9 year old guest guitarist you may have heard me talk about before. First time he ever played with headphones on.
How hard did he stick the knife on that riff in the break???
After he got done he said, “those guys were playing the chorus chords wrong” hahaaaa

Look out world.

June 8th, 2022

Homeskoolin Bonus, “The Guy Who Does Heart Covers”

Chapters
00:00 - Heart - Little Queen cover practice
03:14 - Riff discussion / Rehearsal
03:46 - Fill notation
04:38 - "The Trip Out Section"
05:27 - Heart songs and compositions
06:13 - Gigs insight
07:25 - Kicking some sweet licks / "The guy that does Heart covers"


Notes
Hi guys, just checkin in.

May 30th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 148, Tom Bukovac, “A Queens Tale” Pt 2

Chapters
00:00 - Viewer Comments Bin...cont. / Quick fire style
04:49 - Pissing people off
06:45 - Trip The Witch / Naming songs
07:40 - Phone recording sound
08:00 - Sayings
10:00 - Reinvent yourself?
12:05 - Comfortable cliches
14:12 - Improvise
14:50 - Michael Hedges
16:00 - What's the point of your channel?
17:24 - Smoking weed


Notes
Part two of that all that shit i said in part one.

May 30th, 2022

Homeskoolin Volume 148, Tom Bukovac, “A Queens Tale” Pt 1

Chapters
00:00 - Beatles - Hard Days Night / Other playing intro.
03:47 - Hello, friends! / Camping trip
04:24 - Rough and tumble biker dudes
06:15 - 1966 Fender Duo Sonic
07:14 - Viewer Comments Bin...  -->


Notes
Part one of a long ass look into the VCB rapid fire style, and a recollection of yesterday when i hung out at a cookout in the country with some Harley ridin biker dudes from Queens NY

May 27th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Grab Them Chords Clean Boy”

Chapters
00:00 - Little instruction on chords


Notes
9 year old Marshall getting the typical quiz by his old man about knowing his chords and grabbing them quickly nice and clean.

May 26th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “The U.S.S. Homeskoolin’”

Chapters
00:00 - Showing what dads have to do.


Notes
Marshall only puts his guitar down to
A: stuff his face
B: play baseball
C: build a cardboard ship

He wanted me to show you guys the gun "turrents"

May 24th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Sky Diving Pt 3”

Chapters
00:00 - Outrageous playing as always


Notes
After a long session that went on all day today, where i did 11 fucking songs…i was just starting to get warmed up.

so when i got home i busted out the old burst and turned the old princeton reverb all the way up, like ya do…

(weirdo delay courtesy of old blood endeavors black fountain oil can delay pedal)

May 23rd, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Man In A Plastic Bag”

Chapters
00:00 - Mixture intro playing
01:23 - Hello, friends! / Thanks
02:25 - Playing without gain / Paul Kossoff
03:48 - Contest
04:39 - '72 Deluxe / Norlin
05:52 - Thanks
06:33 - Pick handling


Notes
Hello kids, Larry just wanted to say thanks for all the kind comments on the recent Brett Papa video i did with sweet Guthrie Trapp which you can watch here…

https://youtu.be/YCFFjWtXYGE

Also, I was looking around and thinking to myself…”i got way too much shit”….im gonna sell a bunch of my sort of lower echelon stuff…none of the really blue chip stuff… I got some cool lower end stuff like my old Mosrite that i used in the “cuban breeze” video…that old Supro with the lap steel sandwich pickup i used in the “saturday night bonus jam” vid, i might launch my old Dean Cadillac (for the right price) and some other shit. I may even sell that bad ass 76 bc rich mockingbird i have.

May 18th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 144, Tom Bukovac, “Uncle Larry’s Garage Sale (High Roller Edition)”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing and singing / Gibson ES-335
14:20 - Contest


Notes
Hello friends…just Larry takin’ a ride on a particularly friendly lightweight chunk of firewood from 225 Parsons St. in Kalamazoo Michigan.

If you wanna taste the rainbow on this one contact Gruhn Guitars at 615-256-2033 and when someone answers just say “yes, uh, i’d like to buy that bad ass 335 you guys have”

May 17th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 143 Part 2, “The Freaks That Carry Your Luggage”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Bridge Saavy install and testing
04:30 - Giveaway
05:12 - Comment section / Thanks
07:12 - Epiphone "Melody Maker"
08:30 - Playing / Kelly Clarkson show
09:22 - Lesson: Hammering 2nd onto the 3rd while holding root and 5th
10:17 - Favorite chord (F#m7b6)
12:36 - Lesson: Bouncing bass notes to self-mute
13:20 - Touch and Dynamics / Another special "Fuck-Off"


Notes
Part two of a two part saga showing the eternal happiness that a Music City Bridge product can bring into a person’s life….musiccitybridge.com

and dig this classic:
https://youtu.be/u0R-4F0mzmU

May 16th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 142, Tom Bukovac, “Guitar Is Cool�

Chapters
00:00 - Great playing with a little raunch
03:43 - Lost note / Hello, friends!
04:05 - Tube Echoplex
05:06 - Preamp control
06:30 - Demo without
07:24 - Demo with
08:23 - Comparison talk
09:09 - "Smell" pedal / Candles
10:17 - Volume control on guitar / Fuzz magic
14:07 - Holding guitar neck for sustain
15:20 - Herco pick / Back on the road / Twanging notes on a Tele


Notes
A brief look at “sustain” and “gain structure” and “scented candles for guitar nerds”….

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And i can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect it”

Thanks for watching the channel kids

May 12th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 141, Tom Bukovac, “Every One’s A Prototype”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro playing
01:51 - Hello, friends! / Tour
04:00 - Rental gear
04:31 - In Ears vs. monitors
05:00 - Thanks
05:35 - Herco / John Shanks / Gretsch guitars
08:32 - Cmaj7 chord lesson
09:00 - Let notes ring out
09:30 - Em and stacked minor 3rds / Diminished
11:11 - Special "Fuck-Offs" / World's Best Watcher & Arthur Gains (Comments section last 2 episodes)


Notes
Hello friends….ol’ Larry back in the deep south, fresh in from the city of angels. A tour recap and some hot takes regarding crumbling binding.

Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com

totally unrelated....this is the coolest video ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQqur...

May 9th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Lacienega & Melrose”

Chapters
00:00 - Road Update


Notes
Just a quick check in and invitation to the show tonite and tomorrow at El Rey theater in LA to all of you cool people EXCEPT that “world’s best watcher” douchebag. Thanks for supporting the show friends

May 8th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Updates From The Road

Chapters
00:00 - Road update


Notes

April 25th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 140, Tom Bukovac, “List Of Things To Do In The Morning”

Chapters
00:00 - Amazing playing as always
02:13 - Hey friends! / Writing tunes
03:38 - Time constraint vs experiementing with songs
05:58 - Open tunings
06:14 - Play a song over and over / Tedious long hours
09:41 - Strings / Open G Tuning
11:02 - Lesson: Bar chord, hammer on
11:48 - Lesson: Devilish sounding guitar in Open G
13:45 - Lesson: Zeppelin-ish song for Ann Wilson
14:29 - "It's all been done before" / Clever ways to make it fresh
15:14 - Great story about Reese Wyman / "Every note was new"
08:04 - Lesson: The Devil's lick


Notes
1) breakfast
2) put dishes in sink
3) brush your teeth and fix your hair
4) put your homework in your school bag
5) make sure you have your chromebook laptop AND the charger

And then…get out your ‘38 bone and get to work

Thank you guys for keeping the Homeskoolin’ dream alive….hope you are learning a TON from these videos….have you all visited the night time drop box at the musicians union yet?

Paypal tip jar is tombukovac@gmail.com

April 22nd, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 139, Tom Bukovac, “Well How Big Ol’ Boy Was He?�

Chapters
00:00 - Passionate swirling playing with a flanger
03:09 - Ibanez Flanger (FL-305)
03:30 - Hey friends!
04:00 - Sessions with Ann Wilson and Tom's new song
05:15 - Collaboration is the greatest part of music
07:48 - Creative people
08:50 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Special and Music City Stud Finder bridge
09:15 - Musician Union drop-box idea
10:15 - Music City Stud Finder bridge
11:13 - Randy Newman - I Love LA
13:00 - I Love LA poly chords lesson / Genesis & Tony Banks
14:40 - Lesson: Bass note with sliding 4ths and little rubs
17:47 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - On the Hunt playing


Notes
A brief discussion on using triads over a single pedaling bass note to create "harmonic tension"

There have been many musical giants who have roamed the earth and conquered long before the time we are in now…we must always listen back and learn from those ancestors who learned/wrote and performed music before “the great distraction” took place.

If you are indeed getting something useful out of the thoughts conveyed in these videos, please support your local public television station with an honor system paypal donation at
Tombukovac@gmail.com
Or
venmo @Tom-Bukovac-1

April 12th, 2022

Tom Bukovac….Caveman

Chapters
00:00 - Playing some rockin' riffs


Notes
I found an old 60’s 10” Oxford speaker out in my garage and decided to throw it in my old 58 Vibrolux…which of course led to all this juvenile behavior….gimme a break guys….im just happy to be alive.

This one goes out to my dear old friend Chris Nelson Gilman

March 31st, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 136, Tom Bukovac, “Sky Diving Pt. 2”

Chapters
00:00 - Far out playing with some tastey boost
08:15 - Hello, friends! / 1978 BC Rich Super Eagle
09:00 - Barracuda Analog Flanger
10:10 - Tuning / Super Eagle boost
11:26 - Digital EQ built into a pickup
12:45 - Busy Summer coming up / Ann Wilson
14:00 - Castle Recording Studio
14:40 - 2 chord intro jam lesson


Notes
A totally improv stream of unconsciousness ramble from a guy who worked all day….and a look at some summer plans.

March 28th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Volume 135, Tom Bukovac, “Sympathetic For The Devil”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing the double-neck with bliss resonance
02:42 - Hello, friends! / Guitar show
03:50 - Son into guitars / Inspirational message about kids
05:36 - Deals at guitar show
05:54 - 1958 Gibson EMS-1235 hollowbody double-neck
07:07 - Demonstration
08:36 - 1967 Marshall PA 50 watt plexi
09:00 - Pedal trading / Pre-Rocked Pedals / Lessons coming


Notes
A brief chat on sympathetic string vibrations on double neck guitars….fatherhood…and the virtues of vintage guitar shows…

Companies mentioned in episode are
Pre-Rocked Pedals
Diablo Guitars
Abalone Vintage

In this video Larry is plunking a 1958 Gibson EMS-1235 hollow body double neck through a 1967 Marshall PA 50 watt plexi.

Thanks for watching the show friends

March 19th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Last One Holdin’ It”

Chapters
00:00 - Gruhn Guitars Inc.
00:37 - Sprinkler system amp wrap
02:28 - George's overrated guitar? Gibson SG
08:36 - Greg's overrated guitar? Rickenbacker
09:46 - Les Paul and the SG
10:27 - Discovery of old guitars / Michael Bloomfield influence
13:24 - Tony Iommi's weren't Gibsons / Redesigning the SG
15:15 - Bloomfield influence cont.
16:56 - Les Paul
19:10 - Unbelievable guitars
25:10 - "Store's best customer" / Collection / Inspiration
28:41 - What guitar would you love to have?
31:39 - Guitar price "bubble"? / New generation of guitar buyers
36:05 - Heavy Metal / Women buyers / Inflation
38:18 - Guitar is a physical art you can feel, hear, and is alive
41:00 - Optimist vs. pessimist truth
42:42 - "Hot tip" of what is going to be valueable?
43:49 - 70's to present guitars
44:07 - 335 vs. Bursts prices
46:33 - "If there were a guitar...would be buying." / Guitars bought
47:49 - Not vintage guitar?
50:43 - Guitar to turn to crap? / Difficulty in supply / Bolt-on copies / Luthier
53:23 - New instruments from new builders and opinions
54:30 - 2 names of builders that are good?  Hugh Hansen, Paul Newson
57:19 - What are some of the things missing from builders who are missing the point?
61:52 - Best craftsmanship in guitar making?


Notes
Maaaaaaaaaany things to think about…..
Starring:
George Gruhn
Greggy Voros
Joel Watrous
David Kreisel
and some sweet woman who’s name we don’t know (Cheryl)

Filmed on 3/19/22 on location in the infamous break room of the greatest guitar store in the world.