March 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 408, Tom Bukovac, “Velvet Hammers”

Chapters
00:00 - 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

March 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Birth Of Sports Bar Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Driving by childhood neighborhood


Notes
well friends, we made it back home late last night after a fantastic trip to the homeland of Cleveland

so great to see all of our sweetheart relatives and dear friends…three of the four Bukovac brothers were onstage together and one sister was in attendance at a fun gig we played Friday night…the place was fucking PACKED with a zillion faces, most I haven’t seen since high school...

this little video is evidence of that...of course i played a whole set of songs with my brother's band that i never played before with no rehearsal whatsoever....typical Cleveland gig

this particular clip shows me cutting heads with local Cleveland guitar slanger Timmy Facemeyer, while my dearest oldest brother Dougie (to my left) looks on....Timmy Drensky on bass, he was the bass player in my band when i played the Eastlake Battle Of The Bands circa 1983 .....

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but let me tell ya' friends….the drive home…sweet jesus it was fucking BRUTAL….i literally had the windshield wipers on the highest setting for five straight hours in the blinding rain with almost zero visibility as semi trucks driven by bots who completely ignored the fact that they were in the middle of a monsoon blazed by us at 85 MPH

March 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus , “Have You Ever Wondered What Was In A Typical Nashville Pawn Shop?”

Chapters
00:00 - Looking in a typical Nashville pawn shop


Notes
When Uncle Larry was a younger man, pre kids, ANY TIME he had a day off he would scour the Nashville pawn shops and shitty music stores in the worst areas he could find…

Sadly now all those music stores of yesterday were replaced by vape shops…there’s a still a fair amount of pawn shops but they are all pretty much exactly like this, except that one in Elysian Fields area of Nolensville that has more music gear than most music stores.


But here ya go friends, now ya know

March 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Special Edition “Guest Garage Sale”

Chapters
00:00 - '64 Gibson ES-335 for sale / Uncle Larry's Guest Garage Sale $16,000


Notes
Starring dear Seth Cook and his delightfully chopped 64 335

March 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam "Stump Grinder"

Chapters
00:00 - Raunch of the best kind


Notes
Kalamazoo grind is the nastiest kind...

if you likin' what you seein' h'yeahhh....the tip jar is SOO close

paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

March 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Chops For Days”

Chapters
00:00 - Enjoying life


Notes
I loooooove this current weather here in the hood….a little cold and dreary but dry

Good day for some nice pork chops…

All of the Instagrammers out there already know about Uncle Larry’s deep love of all things pork and chop….


This one is for you YouTubers

Thank you for the continued support of our little pentatonic channel.

in this life, you can search all you want for TRUE satisfaction....but in the end, no matter how much money/time you spend, a couple of nice fuggin' pork chops on the grill and the proper amount of time needed to really enjoy them are as good as anything this life has to offer my friends.

March 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 407, Tom Bukovac, “Bad Decision Soup”

Chapters
00:00 - Just playing away
10:56 - Alright, how's it going friends / Vision
12:08 - Gibson ES-335 love
12:32 - Drew and Homeskoolin' merch / New t-shirts in mind / Motortrend Magazine
14:00 - DVD movies that will cure you / Brick, Intacto, Delicatessen, Sunshine
14:46 - Muscle Shoal / Things that were great in the past
16:23 - "The cage you built is all you" / Good decision soup, or bad decision soup
17:19 - Cheesy, weak, awesome rhythm playing
18:15 - Muscle Shoals vibe
19:21 - Ty Myers mom and cut off video / Steven Tyler
21:19 - Brett Papa and video subscription project / "Never going to get this done"
23:23 - John McBride and Gruhn Baritone guitar
25:40 - 'Merican Patriot
26:32 - Lesson: Hard pull off


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some straight sports bar blooze and reflects about the recent experience of recording in one of the most soulful places in ‘Merica….

March 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Haunted Switch”

Chapters
00:00 - '62 Gibson stereo output with varitone
04:17 - Varitone shades of unusable tones.
06:00 - Pull the cord out a bit to get mono neck pickup / Popping switch



Notes
I have been asked MANY MANY times about my thoughts regarding the stereo Gibson models of the late 50’s/early 60’s…the ES-345 and ES-355…people always wonder how they sound next to a typical golden era mono ES-335 that we all love, because the stereo guitars are usually a bit more affordable.

My dear friend Drew from Guitar House of Tulsa came by for a visit last night and brought along a couple of really nice ES-355’s, including this EXTREMELY tidy 62 with a LOVELY neck in fantastic condition…which also has a haunted switch.

So of course I used this opportunity to show you Homeskoolers a very handy demonstration of the extremely vast chasm of sound difference between an old stereo Gibson and an old mono Gibson.

Yeah, that’s right…I’m always thinking of you guys….

Anyway, hope you don’t mind the phone falling over a few times, but this video should tell ya everything you need to know about the differences in the sounds between mono and stereo old Gibsons.

editor's note..at :32 i meant to say "mono 335", not "mono 355"

March 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Real Inside Shit”

Chapters
00:00 - Pro Tools transfer from mixer


Notes
Don’t feel bad if you don’t understand any of the shit these guys are doing…neither do I.

My genuine love and respect for great recording engineers is well documented…you guys have heard me say many times that the most important guy in the band in the engineer….you have also heard me say that when I walk into a session, the very first question I ask is “who’s engineering?”

you have also heard me say that even if Christ Himself put The Perfecf Band together for The Ultimate Comeback Record…even That Band could not overcome a terrible engineer…..

Simply put, no matter who you are, you GOTTA have a fella around that knows how to “run the PA”

with all that being said, I will admit that I am damned glad that I figured early on what side of the glass I personally belong on

I may not get this stuff…but I’m just glad there are folks that do…

Thanks to dear Seth Morton and dear Lance ….

and thanks to Ty’s mom for the validation at the end ….

March 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Fame…Is It Any Wonder?”

Chapters
00:00 - Fame Studios / Muscle Shoals tour


Notes
The legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals…can you even imagine how many people have posed for a photo in front of this place??

This particular Homeskoolin progrum stars:
Gordon Mote
Brandon Hood
Mark Hill
Bruce Bouton
Stix Mchugh
Seth Morton
Wes Sheffield
Lance

March 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Manson Family Band/Vinyl & CD Blowout!!”

Chapters
00:00 - Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
01:34 - Merchandise


Notes
The boys …they don’t wanna play any boring slow songs anymore…they wanna rock.
I’m just trying to keep up

Dig this pocket little 9 year old Leo is laying down here friends …he’s a TOTAL band guy…team player….he never noodles when we are trying to work out arrangements…..he listens and pays close attention and occasionally throws out cool ideas…he gets frustrated with his brother for noodling too much when we are trying to work out arrangements…the boy is such a natural and whatever band he ends up in down the road is gonna be lucky to have him.

If you want some of the product shown in the later half of this video

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

45 for lp
30 for cd

No international shipping I am sorry friends

March 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 406, Tom Bukovac, “Let It Slide”

Chapters
00:00 - Mean riffing
06:51 - Happy Sunday / "Turn that down!"
07:21 - Lesson: Slide concepts
08:05 - Tom Brit story
09:25 - Lesson: Parallel to the frets
10:04 - Lesson: Muting
11:15 - Lesson: Hammer on
14:35 - Hateful comments on video Chibsons vs Gibson / Joe Glazer, Nick Drueshel, Joe Bonamassa
18:00 - Lesson: Tap hammer on
18:34 - Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People / Sean Beavan (record producer) / Bill Bottrell (producer) / Sheryl Crow writer - David Baerwald
21:22 - Lab Series L5 amp
22:03 - Playing / Squaky midrange


Notes
Uncle Larry pays forward some of the knowledge he was given many moons ago by the great Tom Britt.

March 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 405, Tom Bukovac, “Mr. Organized”

Chapters
00:00 - New slide
04:21 - What's up? / Cleaning and organized
04:50 - Liquislide (Pete Flynn) / PAFs
07:04 - Playing with a slide on
08:33 - Lab Series L5
09:05 - Gibson ES-335 purchase / Trip The Witch CDs
12:10 - Son Leo and drumming


Notes
Uncle Larry is absolutely IN LOVE with these new slides friends…

the liquislide.com

Happy Saturday and thank you for watching the progrum people

February 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 404, Tom Bukovac, “The Thirteenth Floor”

Chapters
00:00 - Restringing Martin D28 Aged Authentic / 12s to 13s on acoustic
02:48 - Genesis
11:44 - Pontiac GTO
15:00 - Gibson ES-335 sold / Cleveland
19:28 - Jacob Colier
21:34 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry finally recognizes the errors in his acoustic ways…

This old video kinda went under the radar…the making of “Black Cloud” off the GT TB “In Stereo” record...lot of fun stuff in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LDLMlt3Ck

February 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 403, Tom Bukovac, “AM Radio”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming on not so thick strings
01:39 - What's up? / Yuengling
02:14 - Lesson: Underrated chord [x 5 7 0 7 0]
02:52 - Lesson: Another chord [10 10 9 0 8 x]
03:16 - Lesson: Cmin6 same as Fdom7 (same thing)
05:19 - Lesson: Another great chord [x 8 x 8 9 8] / Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
06:29 - Pontiac GTO original radio
07:24 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Increasing profanity
07:53 - "Deep thoughts" - view of the world after YouTube
09:49 - People want to see someone fall or lose / Dave Grohl
11:55 - Bill Burr bashing
13:15 - "Deep thoughts" - Summary
15:00 - Done with 12s and going to 13s on acoustic / Strings


Notes
Uncle Larry delivers the third video of the day…it might be a world record ….

February 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Session Update “Bad Investment”

Chapters
00:00 - Starstruck Studios and "the Pond" tour


Notes
A quick tour of “the Pond” at Starstruck studio in downtown Nashville

It turns out that an SSL console wasn’t a great investment in 1994

Brandon Hood producing a record for Emily Ann Robert’s

Starring my dear old pal Chris Ashburn

February 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 402, Tom Bukovac, “The Burst Killer?”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking on the Burst
01:06 - Good morning dear friends / Thank you
02:18 - '72 Chevelle
03:03 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Pentatonic scales
03:30 - "Who are you playing for?"
04:45 - "Not a Jazz-er" / Play for the world
06:06 - Epiphone 335 / '61 dot neck sold
07:00 - ES-345 or ES-355 / Stereo varitone bullshit
08:02 - Gretsch White Falcon / Mono system without bullshit
09:35 - Brett Papa classes
11:42 - '59 Gibson ES-335 "Burst Killer" vs. '58 Gibson Les Paul "Burst"
12:39 - '58 Burst bridge
14:09 - '59 ES-335 bridge
15:30 - '58 Burst neck
17:20 - '59 ES-335 neck
19:30 - '58 Burst neck / Sustain for days vs feedback
20:32 - Conclusion / Burst one more time
21:19 - ES-335 one more time


Notes
Uncle Larry shoots out two iconic chunks of golden age Kalamazoo through a tweed deluxe and answers some hot chunks of VCB

If you like these videos please tell a friend

February 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Dot Neck Believer Fever”

Chapters
00:00 - '59 Gibson ES-335
03:39 - Playing
06:38 - Brdige clean
07:01 - Middle clean
07:48 - Volume of PAFs


Notes
Since he was a young man, Uncle Larry has always been one to trade several realllllllllly great guitars for one total showstopper….and this is one of those times…

a no excuses 59 dotneck has been on my bucket list for a good while now. …

This one will do the trick

February 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 401, Tom Bukovac, “Up With Antigua”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / Fender Stratocaster Antigua
03:30 - Playing acoustically
03:53 - Being sick
06:33 - Movie called "Boyhood"
13:55 - Ethan Hawk
24:42 - Van Zant Brothers gigs


Notes
Gather around and behold perhaps the only man on earth that doesn’t hate the Antigua finish from Fender’s darkest years…

February 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam/Garage Sale

Chapters
00:00 - Sweet ole Country?
04:16 - Hello, friends! / Christmas song / Schools closing
05:30 - Thank yous
06:23 - Gretsch 6120 White Falcon for sale (Uncle Larry's Garage Sale)


Notes
Hope you all enjoy the tones of this tasty old 62 first year double cut white falcon

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