February 16th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 281, Tom Bukovac, “The Cleveland Weatherman”

Chapters
00:00 - Covering Country - Hank Williams Jr. and more
03:44 - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln
04:43 - Lyrics are important / Singer is direction
06:15 - Hank Williams Jr.
07:30 - Steven Tyler
08:00 - Hermanos Gutierrez
09:50 - Careful about putting something over someone else's work
10:42 - '65 Epiphone Frontier
12:20 - Brian Wilson and playing on record
12:55 - Tom Britt and paintings


Notes
Uncle Larry reminisces a bit about his undying love for real country music and real singers....

here is the new Hermanos Gutierrez track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrRkXjJpXUU

and check out some of Tom Britt's amazing art work...i love this shit
https://www.facebook.com/people/Tom-Britt-Art/100077778759684/

February 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 280, Tom Bukovac, “Twang Newton”

Chapters
00:00 - Twanging
05:30 - Good morning / Flatwounds on the Duesenberg Danelectro
06:45 - Click bait videos
07:00 - New rented gear has no "danger" / Old pickups vs. new
08:08 - "Bent out of shape" guy "coming in hot!" - Pitch correction content
11:00 - Click bait != hot chicks / "Sounds good" compliment
11:45 - 99% of tone is in your hands / 1% in gear is very important / Inspiration factor
13:28 - Red Gibson Firebird I
14:10 - T-Shirt drawer and how many t-shirts
14:35 - We are here for the content
14:52 - Fender Tweed Deluxe / With mic
16:10 - Getting old / Old crappy equipment looks good / MIJ Fender Strat
17:35 - Japanese Tele with Van Zant
18:49 - Blackguard Teles
19:57 - Pitch correction on Rolling Stones record?


Notes
Uncle Larry, sans click bait, with some early mornin’ flat wound twang served up Southern style on a cheapo guitar…

February 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 279, Tom Bukovac, “Uh Oh”

Chapters
00:00 - Remember when songs had chords
01:43 - Hello, friends! / Thanks
02:44 - '60s Gibson Firebird I
03:27 - Comparing acoustic sounds of guitars
03:45 - Clickbait is REAL, it's just fun
06:00 - Gwen and Blake
07:16 - Selling piles of stuff
08:14 - 10 thumbs down
08:45 - Making up your own questions
09:11 - Pitiful video about Rick Beato / Tuning vocals (pitch correction)
11:32 - Only in Nashville story - Amp left in the studio
04:00 - Music City Bridge on Gibson Theodore
14:26 - Acoustic test - Gibson Theodore, Gibson Firebirds
16:26 - Electrified test - Gibson Theodore, Gibson Firebirds


Notes
in this clip Uncle Larry weeds through some corporate VCB and waxes rhapsodic about the acoustic benefits and harmonic richness of the beloved Music City Bridge…

Here's that new Gwen and Blake single kids...fun little number just in time for spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46T0LDRsHCc

and here's this ridiculous video where dude acts like putting some slight tuning on a lead vocal in 2024 is some sort of unspeakable act.

this is basically like saying that using your new GE dishwasher instead of hand washing your dishes is a sign of laziness and you should be absolutely embarrassed by it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpzmqgluc50&t=0s

and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....

if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...especially since it's tax season ferchrissakes

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.

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

February 14th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Young Man Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Organ lessons


Notes
8 year old Leo gives us a tour of the legendary 1958 Hammond B3/Leslie 147 combo whilst simultaneously showing off the temporary tat he got from a vending machine at a Japanese restaurant

Friends, I have been on this earth for 55 years…and I am STILL absolutely mesmerized by a Leslie speaker…or any speaker that rotates for that matter….

in the end, after all the cars, money, drugs and women have faded away, the Leslie speaker stands alone as the coolest thing on earth..

February 13th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 278, Tom Bukovac, “I Never Thought I Would Say This”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking a special guitar
03:40 - The cleanup! / Lynyrd Skynyrd licks
04:43 - This Gibson wants to Rock / Listen to the raunch
06:42 - '58 Gibson ES-350
07:16 - Hello / How many sessions do you do?
07:50 - Older career
08:30 - Clickbait and bought that easy
09:10 - Wayne Killius and echo drums
09:50 - Mattel Football and Foosball and Darts
11:16 - "Using pedals as a sign of weakness?" / You need more than 1 sound for session work
12:49 - "Did you meet Zakk Wylde?" / Loud / Metal is a different world
14:20 - "Why do you hate modeling gear?"
16:12 - Get a buzz and shop on Reverb / Lightweight guitar
17:16 - "I am drunk all the time at night"
17:45 - "Guitar you wanted to love?" / Gibson ES-175


Notes
Uncle Larry still conducting some experiments with shock factor click bait titles to attract hip younger viewers that listen to John Mayer and use the latest high end beard grooming products.

February 12th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 277, Tom Bukovac, “Bait And Click”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking the V
01:40 - Lesson: Lick of the day
02:20 - Lesson: Another one / Exploring the V
04:50 - '90 Gibson Flying V / Spoiling the kids
06:25 - End of football season
07:06 - "The World Series" / Watching the NFL Super Bowl / Proposing to Taylor Swift
08:48 - Clickbait thumbnails and titles
09:42 - Pantera show / Metal world / Bass drum hits
11:58 - Mattel electronic football
12:45 - Rollin' Rock Uncle Larry pedal
13:27 - Robert Baker guitar show (Black Les Paul Deluxe) / Low stress, beer drinking lifestyle
15:47 - Piano player which one? (Wakeman or Banks)
17:00 - Something died /re
17:50 - Wayne Killius echo drums explanation
18:45 - Killius playing drums
20:45 - Cool drum licks
22:00 - Echo drumming!


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on the NFL’s decision to let Taylor Swift win the Super Bowl and gets into some hot VCB

amazing drum lesson courtesy of Wayne Killius

February 12th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Sunday Glue”

Chapters
00:00 - Repair of an ole acoustic
02:42 - Pantera footage with Greg, Corey, and Eric


Notes
Dearest Nathan Golliher shows us how to glue up some funky old binding.

Thanks to all for watching the channel...we are almost at 100K subs...wow

if you guys are getting some inspiration and good ideas out of these videos please visit the tip jar

Paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

Thank you folks

February 9th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 276, Tom Bukovac, “How To Be Great At Guitar In 15 Minutes”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin'
00:41 - Session Man Rule #1: "Never write a lick you can't play."
01:11 - Pantera and Lamb of God
02:28 - Roll out of bed episodes
03:15 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior TV Yellow
05:54 - Gibson Doubleneck photo recognition / Historian (Eric Ernest) / Original owner
07:30 - Nick Drushel / Gibson SG break and restoration with CNC
09:04 - Argent - Hold Your Head Up / Organ madness
10:30 - Lesson: Lots of techniques & over the I
11:11 - Listening to the amazing solo
12:44 - Lesson: Guitar part
13:35 - Musicians are better now? [heavy sarcasm alert]
14:25 - "The Panteras"
15:15 - Common thread between listeners / Family playing / Malcolm Young
16:15 - Pickups (PAF, P90, minihumbuckers, etc) / Favorite pickup of all Gretsch Filtertron


Notes
Hello friends, several YouTuber friends of mine have recently suggested that I should start experimenting with clickbait video titles and thumbnails to get more views…so I thought “how to be great at guitar in 15 minutes” would REALLY get some people’s attention…even if the video has nothing to do with that

…and then I’m gonna find a picture of some really delicious looking cheesecake to put in the thumbnail…I mean, they HAVE TO click on that right?

February 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Rock Band”

Chapters
00:00 - Bukovac family rockin'


Notes
some rare rehearsal footage of “B-U-K-O-V-A-C” back in the days when they still did the occasional cover song…

February 7th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Man Hunt”

Chapters
00:00 - Singing and a strummin'
01:36 - Quick episode & thanks
02:05 - Recognize this owner?
02:28 - Gibson EMS 1275 Doubleneck


Notes
Just wondering if any of you old guys out there might recognize this fella

One of the previous owners of my 58 Gibson EMS-1235 double neck

February 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 275, Tom Bukovac, “You Go On TV With Hair Like That?”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming some Heavenly tunes
03:15 - Hello, friends! / That Pedal Show / Episode 275
04:23 - Gibson Doubleneck and some sounds
05:06 - Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
06:52 - Toby Keith, RIP
10:00 - Rick Beato video
10:22 - Epiphone rabbit hole
11:22 - Lesson: Cool lick / Gibson Doubleneck sounds
12:09 - Movies: Mighty Wind & Best In Show
13:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ever get nervous? / Don't read music
15:23 - Nervous about getting sick on stage / In charge of a gig and something going wrong
16:50 - Andy Gellison rework of Doubleneck
17:30 - Mortified at past recordings at all?


Notes
bed head Larry plays ya' a little early morning blues and pays tribute to a dear old departed friend

tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958…amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modelers...

and now for some fucking GENIUS comedy...

February 5th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 274, Tom Bukovac, “Poser”

Chapters
00:00 - Epiphone P90 rockin' into AC/DC
01:50 - Hello, friends! / PAN aramic amp
02:26 - Drawing guitars / Larry hello and giving time
03:15 - Guthrie birthday / Nashville hangouts
05:35 - Mysterious characters / Ebo
08:00 - Love of Epiphone guitars
10:36 - Epiphone Crestwood
12:06 - Epiphone Wilshire
13:35 - "When is enough?"
14:00 - "Who has the most Soul?" / Ray Charles
14:57 - "How do you approach fills?"
16:06 - Official fills chart and mixing it up...no bullshit
18:10 - Carl Weathers send off (R.I.P.)


Notes
Uncle Larry extols his great adoration of Epiphone guitars of the 50s and early 60s…

February 5th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 273, Tom Bukovac, “Soul & Bowl Revue”

Chapters
00:00 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone nice rendition blend into Beatles ending
03:28 - How's everyone doin'?
04:40 - Galavanting Nashville / Gruhn's / Brett Papa collaboration
05:52 - Horshoe Bigsby on '62 Crestwood
07:02 - Nicky G show
08:47 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Guitar temptations NAMM
10:50 - Lesson: Playing slide w/o slide
13:15 - Wedding gigs hate / Twist and Shout
14:30 - "G string 'out of tune'?"
15:30 - 100,000 subscribers and plaque
16:30 - Lynyrd Skynyrd phaser?


Notes
Uncle Larry gushes about his life eternal love of the “horseshoe Bigbsy” and recaps some details of the weekend.

and...if you can't feel something from this, you might wanna go to a doctor and have him check real carefully to see if you are still alive...

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man

Thanks for watching the channel friends....if you feel like you are indeed getting something out of these bizarre yet extremely low cost musings, please feel free to visit the old Paypl tip jar at
tombukovac@gmail.com
or venmo
@Tom-Bukovac-1

February 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Bird Of A Different Feather”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' the Super Eagle


Notes
Uncle Larry takes a Saturday stroll on some Hawaiian Acacia Koa from 1977

There’s a certain guitar sound that I refer to as the “covers off” tone….every lifer rock and roller knows that thing a good humbucker does when there is no pickup cover to impede its world domination efforts.

February 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Art Of Guitar Repair & Restoration”

Chapters
00:00 - Followup Episode to Goes to Gruhn's Volume 5 about a '59 Burst repair


Notes
As promised…a follow up video on a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard that had a very hard life…

I first showed you guys this guitar 4 months ago in a video called “Homeskoolin’ Goes To Gruhns Volume 5”

Sadly it was chopped to pieces by a previous owner.

Tony Nagy and Greg Voros give it to you straight about what separates the men from the boys when it comes to guitar repair and restoration.

Hope you enjoy

February 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 272, Tom Bukovac, “Hit It Maestro”

Chapters
00:00 - Statesboro Blues into Bad Company into Led Zeppelin - No Quarter into playing
03:03 - Classic Rock tone Maestro Accordian Amp / Ebo cosmetic magician
04:43 - Back to playing that Rock sound / Thanks
05:50 - Party fun and Black Jack
06:30 - The Cliffs
08:45 - Playing to remember
09:13 - Rebelling against the YouTube Police / Genius of Allman Brothers Band
10:30 - Lesson: Ghostly move from bend to next note
11:58 - Allman Brothers greatest guitar shit
13:10 - Lesson: Half-step slides


Notes
Uncle Larry explores the creepy ghostly qualities of the much overlooked half step slide.

By the way that matchless is sold...

The model of the amp i am playing in this video is Maestro GA-45T with four gold 8" Jensen speakers in it, listed in the original catalog as a "Maestro Standard"...circa 1960....apparently harp players love these amps....harp, accordion...reeds...get it?

Bub always knows about the cool shit.

February 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Gear Bonus “Quality Control”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing the Gibson Theodore again
01:13 - Follow up video about the Ted guitar
01:45 - Gibson Theodore - Bridge pickup and acoustically / Music City Bridge impending
03:33 - Gibson SG - Comparison acoustically
04:11 - Gibson SG - Bridge pickup
05:48 - Gibson Theodore again
06:53 - Gibson SG again
07:45 - Gibson Theodore again
08:00 - Matchless Chieftain
08:25 - Gibson Theodore - Neck pickup
08:50 - Gibson SG - Neck pickup
09:25 - Gibson Theodore again
09:57 - Gibson Theodore cleanup
10:31 - Gibson SG cleanup
12:08 - Gibson Theodore - Neck pickup, cleanup again


Notes
A very rare gear-centric Homeskoolin' episode for ya.

however, this little opening tune goes out to my dear old friend Carmen Vandenberg.

As promised, Larry does a follow-up video after raising up the bridge pickup so you can hear this new Gibson Theodore as it is supposed to sound..…and while he was at it, he thought maybe he should compare it with some ancient golden age Honduran Hog. ...so maybe then we might all learn somethin'....

Let Larry know what you guys think in your comments.

Apologies as usual for the shit iPhone recording...corporate clearly realizes that it makes critical listening a bit "challenging"

If you guys like these videos and are looking to throw a little something in the tip jar to help the cause, you can do so here

my paypal address is:
tombukovac@gmail.com

venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

if anyone wants to take over ownership of this 1995 Matchless Chieftain 2x10" combo they can do so my emailing me at tombukovac@gmail.com
i am only asking 3200 cash....pretty fair for some old Samsonite people

the amp has spring reverb too praise Him

February 1st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Red Ball Train Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Sliding that Country in


Notes
This one goes out to my dear friend Tom Britt…thank you for showing me the way 30 some years ago

January 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 271, Tom Bukovac “Orange County Blossom Special”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro playing
01:39 - Starship Trooper from Cleveland / Dan Auerbach / Thanks
03:03 - LA Duesenberg trip
04:25 - Shitty glasses
04:54 - Joey Landreth / Duesenberg Germans
06:00 - Rick Beato / Lovers and haters / Teddy Boy & Silviu
08:12 - Gibson Theodore
09:45 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Peavey Amps
10:20 - How loud do you like to play? / Tinnitus / 100W Marshalls (Valve Power)
11:15 - "Music sounded better when I was younger" / Shawn Colvin - Polaroids / Frank Zappa
13:07 - Pedal reviews / Hologram - Chroma Console
14:00 - Today's guitar player (need more rhythm and balls)


Notes
Uncle Larry takes you through the last week or so of life as a session man and makes a psychic prediction about the future value of the world’s latest “lawsuit guitar”….

so we have a lot of new viewers recently

here's the real inside shit folks...i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....

if you do indeed learn a lot of stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...

i'm not gonna lie people, it helps pay for beer, food for me and the boys, bills, and old guitars...that is truly all i use it for....oh, and maybe the occasional football bet...

where is this tip jar you say???

You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

AND THERE'S MERCH TOO!!!!

a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
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.

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

January 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Leaving Las Vegas”

Chapters
00:00 - Taking songs to the next level


Notes
Remember that scene where Nic Cage is cleaning out the booze aisle with a shopping cart while Mike McDonald kills it in the background?