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November 13th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 254, Tom Bukovac, “Deluxe Rentverb”
Chapters00:00 - Nice pickin' n slidin'
05:00 - Hello, friends! / Back home / Monday Night Football and the unders
07:12 - Furious titanium slide / Joe Walsh
10:25 - Nathan East (Bass)
11:13 - Alienating my audience / Pissing people off
11:57 - Paul Kossoff
12:58 - And we're off playing
13:19 - Lesson: Tucked pick, hybrid picking (Em7, G, Asus, C)
15:00 - Gibson SG P90 expressiveness / 'Deluxe Rentverb'
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Uncle Larry talks about road life and rentals….and titanium slides…
November 11th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 253, Tom Bukovac, “The Two Things I DESPERATELY Try To Avoid”
Chapters00:00 - Blues in the hotel room
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Uncle Larry gives us a primer on a new genre of guitar playing called “thoughtful blues”….
The use of the tiny practice amp and extremely low volume also makes this a a good illustration of how a guitar player breathes when he is playing haha
October 17th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 248, Tom Bukovac, "Sight Unseen"
Chapters00:00 - Getting down with early morning rock 'n' roll
03:08 - Intro / NFL season
04:03 - Feelin' sick and having a session
05:45 - Flipping guitars and finding wonderful guitars
07:30 - Gary Rossington slide guitar trick with screwdriver
09:11 - Firebird I redo
10:25 - "Can you help tweak my guitar?" question (Cannot)
11:09 - Buying guitars sight unseen / Buying Firebird I
15:10 - Lesson: Speed picking / All in the wrist
Notes
Larry discusses many topics here...some perhaps a bit graphic in nature.
a LOT of new viewers have recently asked "where is the tip jar?" when they felt led to contribute something after 248 free guitar lessons
You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
AND...you can purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merchandise..including several different T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com
You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.
There are still a few more of the hand signed limited edition Uncle Larry prints that Ziggy O'Leary did left....if you wanna check one out go here:
https://www.ziggysartstudio.com
A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to...
one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch
September 26th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 244, Tom Bukovac, "Thrill To The Exciting New Sound Of Stereo"
Chapters00:00 - Plicking some Doors on '70 Mustang
01:10 - "Woke up this morning" / Doors / "Iconic Band" question?
03:31 - Episode 244 / Volto / Fall weather
04:55 - Garage Sale thank you
05:20 - Garage Sale: 1970 Fender Mustang for sale / Give away guitars
06:27 - Garage Sale: 1952 Gibson Les Paul
08:38 - '52 Les Paul playing
10:13 - Tube reverb
11:18 - Tone shaping with Ebo Customs E-Verb
13:20 - How good can a guitar sound?
14:14 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Favorite song to play live?
15:03 - Hit songs and the power
17:58 - Gibson's biggest fails?
23:30 - Electro-Harmonix (EHX) best pedal company
25:30 - Bought entire collection
28:35 - Biggest regret selling guitar? / Not a hoarder / '59 Jazzmaster (the best)
30:30 - '61 Gibson SG TV Junior / Pulling the trigger / Doubleneck
33:30 - "Soft porn" YouTube instrument lessons
35:17 - Footage of Eric Clapton & Stephen Stills
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There's a lot here...
Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want one of these old plunks
September 23rd, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Soul Hotel”
Chapters00:00 - Hitting it where it counts with some deep, amazing playing
04:00 - Hello, friends! / Jim Irsay gig
04:50 - Lesson: Common Uncle Larry lick (Please watch this wizardary!) / Sneaky IV chord
06:13 - Lesson: ZZ Top - I Thank You
07:26 - Lesson: Changing Blues to D
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Uncle Larry shares a bit of his morning practice ritual with his fellow Homeskoolers.
Just a little tune I just made up to go with my hotel room coffee with no real half and half.
September 8th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Uncle Larry Plays The Hits”
Chapters00:00 - Rehearsing for a big show
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Uncle Larry goes back to his cover band roots on a gig in Indy.
Starring
Stacey McKracken
Peter Wolf
Sweet Mikey Mills
The Tireless Kenny Aronoff
Ebo
and many others
September 1st, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “An Unboxing Of Sorts”
Chapters00:00 - '61 Gibson SG Special with Music City Bridge
06:33 - Rocking the SG
12:30 - The magic sound
Notes
You thought Larry would never do a silly "unboxing video"…...
well...you were dead wrong.
Here’s an in depth look at a 1961 Gibson SG Special I purchased recently from the fine folks at LA Vintage. Thank you Clif
Check out their website here friends:
https://www.lavintagegear.com
August 15th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam, "Cleanup On Aisle 7/4"
Chapters00:00 - Putting out those melodies
Notes
Tom Bukovac
Playing guitar at home after a long day of playing guitar at work...
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May 31st, 2023
Homeskoolin' Bonus Jam, "Calamari"
Chapters00:00 - Some guitar wizardry playing
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Uncle Larry bloze tru' a couple a changezz...(say this real slow like the Bears fans on that SNL sketch where they eat wings and talk about Coach Ditka.)
a LOT of new viewers have recently asked "where is the tip jar?" when they felt led to contribute something after 222 free guitar lessons...despite Dominic Hudson's best efforts to deter them.
You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to...one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch
and a LOT of people don't seem to know that they can go here to purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merchandise..including several different T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/
May 18th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Studio B Roll, “Too Country?”
Chapters00:00 - Recording a rockin' track
Notes
Uncle Larry applies a thick coat of oil based rawk to a session yesterday at Oceanway Studio in Nashville TN
Engineer: Joe “The Goose” Baldridge (he gets a great loud)
Artist: Jewels Gold (actual name i'm told, no kidding)
Drummer: Jordan Perlson
Bass man: Mark Hill
Organ: David Crutcher
May 12th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Friday On My Mind”
Chapters00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Son, Marshall's new SG
01:00 - "Issues" on the newer Gibson guitars / Sticky neck
02:32 - Greg Voros shows us how to un-sticky a neck
Notes
Greg Voros gives us some idea how to reduce that sticky fly paper feeling on the back of the neck of your new Gibson.
March 29th, 2023
Homeskoolin' Volume 205, "The Notes Between The Notes"
Chapters00:00 - Little swanky Beatles guitar
01:51 - Hello all / Kenny Wayne swipe / Wednesdays
03:20 - Gibson SG / Nylon saddles
04:00 - Nashville shooting aftermath / Thank for kind words
05:05 - Beatles - Hey Bulldog / More than 12 notes scale / John Lennon sing in between notes
06:06 - Nashville guitar show total fail
07:20 - Comments on originality in music
08:45 - Owning a legendary guitar? / Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates and story
09:49 - Showing a video with good guitar playing? Doesn't exist
10:05 - Best comment? Joe Namath DJ your party
11:04 - Talking about some pedals / Pete Cornish pedal
11:55 - Son Marshall getting into guitar playing / Buying prebuilt pedalboard
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Uncle Larry gettin' all microtonal and shit.....
If anyone wants to call James Burkett and order one of his re-everythinged old Harmony Sovereigns here is his number...(334) 797-6388.
keep in mind he does these by hand one at a time, so you ain't gonna be getting one tomorrow....or this week....or....
and totally unrelated, but fucking MORE terrible news, check this out....one of the ONLY places in Nashville that i actually go to....or used to....
heartbreaking.....Johnny is a sweet sweet guy and this was the ONLY cool card store in this town.
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 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
If you like these videos, feel free to hit the tip jar
Paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
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.....
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
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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.
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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
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January 4th, 2023
Homeskoolin’ Volume 182, Tom Bukovac, “The Great Gear Chase”
Chapters00:00 - Mixing it up from rockin to
03:05 - Hello, friends! / Thanks / Vince Gill
04:49 - Bills game and cardiac arrest on field
05:39 - Billy Gibbons story
07:12 - Quora junk mail
08:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Gordon Mote
08:44 - Camaraderie in sessions
11:25 - Paul McCartney
12:45 - New Year's Resolution
13:08 - Kick head back
13:37 - Remastering 3rd & Lindley
14:27 - Fingertip tone / Different sound with different person with same gear
22:25 - Lesson: Pick straight eighth notes and play melody with fingers
Notes
Uncle Larry is wearing a hole in his soap box again…firing off maybe even more hot takes than usual.
Tell me this isn't the cutest damned thing you ever saw....what a sweet sweet boy...god it KILLS me.
https://youtu.be/CONDKDDUHQM
Thanks for watching and supporting the show guys
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Venmo tip jar is @Tom-Bukovac-1
December 22nd, 2022
Homeskoolin Volume 180, Tom Bukovac, “PAF The Magic Dragon”
Chapters00:00 - Tinkering around
01:00 - Hello, friends! / Storm
01:53 - Gibson 335 (Cherry '63)
02:57 - Gibson 335 (Burst '63)
03:31 - PAF pickups
04:30 - Lesson: PAFs pickups
06:12 - Quacky / Burst playing
07:00 - Quacky / Cherry playing (quackier)
08:09 - More character middle-position (Cherry)
08:36 - Middle-position (Burst)
08:47 - Neck pickup (Burst)
09:08 - Neck pickup (Cherry)
10:15 - Sustain (Cherry)
10:49 - Sustain (Burst)
11:40 - '58 Les Paul Burst
12:55 - Fretboard separation
13:54 - Mike Bloomfield story & why Les Paul
15:15 - Sound of an SG
Notes
Uncle Larry discusses some of the more little talked about aspects of old pickups.
https://youtu.be/rXwQPwfZvlY