May 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 455, Tom Bukovac, “The Wide Wide River Of Tuning”

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson P90 harmonics
06:09 - Pedalboard laboratory


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you some licks and some gear


Please sign up for the email list to get half off my course that comes out June 6

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May 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 454, Tom Bukovac, “Road Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away that old time
03:56 - Hi, friends! / Thanks
05:34 - Road hands
06:15 - Stalker Guy
07:16 - '38 Martin 00-18
09:19 - Satan's SG / Pat Murray put 2 carcasses 1963
10:33 - Lesson: Cool chord G13 [3 x 3 4 5 3] with claw technique
19:57 - Backroom playing acoustic video


Notes
you old veterans out there all know, when you get out on the road and just play play play all day ….your hands just get stronger and stronger.

It’s a cool feeling …”road hands” are a different kind of strength than “studio hands”…a few weeks in I start feeling like I could bust rocks with my left hand

Thanks for watching the progrum friends…im proud of this little community we have built



and if you want a good laugh today, just close your eyes and REALLY try to picture that asshole Gus trying to play this intro on his Cracker Barrel burst in his Chinese buffet blazer…with his 3.99 truck stop sunglasses and Steven Segall haircut hahaaaaa

I’ll give the boy credit, he actually did try for a brief minute to stop making videos about me, but as soon as he took my name out of the title his views tanked even worse than usual….even he was smart enough to figure that out

May 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Behind The Scenes Bonus “Uncle Larry’s World”

Chapters
00:00 - Tom & Jedd's pedalboards, rig rundown, guitars


Notes
Uncle Larry’s little personal playground

Do NOT steal these settings, because they sound terrible

Starring Eddie Shea and sweet Erica

May 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 453, Tom Bukovac, “Milwaukee Talkee”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming away
01:20 - Hello from Milwaukee / Laverne & Shirley / Vince Gill update


Notes
Uncle Larry with another road update from the great state of Wisconsin

Apparently we are only at 3k people that have signed up on the mailing list at
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I am heartbroken….

I do and do for you guys, but only 3k of you have signed up ?

May 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ …..”Goodbye Boss Man”

Chapters
00:00 - Sombre music
02:04 - Goodbye to Jimmy Irsay


Notes
I just wanted to say a few words about a dear friend who moved on yesterday

Jimmy Irsay

The boy had a heart of gold…and some blue and white too

May 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 452, Tom Bukovac, “Gold Tooth Display”

Chapters
00:00 - That Dean sustain
01:23 - Hi, friends / Ebo Reverb for preamp
03:15 - Lesson: Chord that no man should be able to play [25 5 4 4 2 0] Dmaj7913
03:48 - Vince Gill power trio
04:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:00 - Tal Wilkenfeld / Freaky brains
07:00 - Duesenberg Multi-benders
09:24 - Yngwie Malmsteen
12:24 - Maximumlarry.com course
13:17 - Lesson: Crazy lick
14:41 - Middle pickup on guitar vs bass
17:00 - Thanks
18:30 - Gretsch 6161 amp / Trade bait ES-330 for Bubba


Notes
Uncle Larry rambles a bit on this fine Wednesday....special thanks to the boys at Gruhn's for dialing in this old Dean Caddy....it's on fuego now

The thumbnail depicts the first of many bumps and bruises that the new Hellcat will be sustaining over it's next few years of rigorous speed testing on the poor helpless streets of Nashville Tennessee

so, do you guys think that Gus could play what happens starting at around 2:47 of this video?
Alcatrazz - Yngwie Malmsteen

i might have just been a dream, but i think i may have heard Gus play something similar to this one night at a mind blowing Chinese buffet gig in St Lous when he was doing music from his seminal instrumental heavy metal album "Master Of Peepees"

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 451, Tom Bukovac, “Talbilly” ‪@TalWilkenfeld‬

Chapters
00:00 - Duet
04:37 - Hank Williams Jr. - Family Tradition
11:19 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Middle Age Crazy
19:04 - Waylon Jennings - The Wurlitzer Prize
25:04 - Angel Flying
31:24 - Long Hair Country


Notes
The Homeskoolin progrum welcomes a special out of town guest….direct from Los Angeles, legendary musician ​⁠‪@TalWilkenfeld‬

In the last 2 days Tal has been undergoing a crash course education in roots hillbilly music in case she ever decides to move to Nashville.

We left in all the mistakes, cuz I know you guys love the real shit ….

Enjoy

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “One For All The Stoners Out There”

Chapters
00:00 - Car wash


Notes
Smoke up boys…we goin to the Wash And Roll

May 18th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 450, Tom Bukovac, "maximumlarry.com/course"

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson Firebird string changing
02:17 - Dean Cadillac back from Gruhn's
03:09 - Second wave of vintage / Pink Ibanez
05:03 - Jedd's copied amp circuit and Ebo
07:21 - Shaq, convertible Hellcat
16:00 - Redd Volkaert
22:18 - Gruhn Guitars Inc. - George Gruhn


Notes
Sign up today on the mailing list friends and get half off the upcoming course

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May 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 449, Tom Bukovac, “Northeastern Flyer”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful Old Times music
02:43 - Hey friends / Vince Gill
03:26 - Lesson: C9aug into a C69
03:45 - Brother Doug
04:55 - Playing / Music Theory / Kurt Cobain in a Western Swing Jam
06:48 - Guyatone PS-023 Chorus Flanger (Jedd gifted pedal)
08:00 - Western Swing
09:09 - Pretender in life / What you spend time on
09:58 - Redd Volkaert
11:33 - Whit Smith
13:10 - Lesson: Inversions / Playing over changes
14:57 - Lesson: Right or Wrong tune (chord progression) / Playing over
18:06 - YouTuber Rob Chapman / 1975 Strat and Tele
20:36 - Mailing List / Uncle Larry course
22:03 - Echoplex dying
22:42 - Clint Strong


Notes
Uncle Larry publicly apologizes for trying to play some western swing last night....

I'm still 6 foot 2, but I’m down to 226 on the scale this morning friends…slow and steady…12 pounds down from my fattest moment about 4-5 months ago

My diet motto:
“All meat and veg, and no carbs except Yuenglings”

Try it friends....it’s slow, but it works and it’s REAL weight loss…not that fly by night temporary weight loss you see on the last night infomercials

Get the burger, but just don’t eat the bun.....you don’t even miss it after a while.

check out this shit awesome shit...
• The Western Flyers with Redd Volkaert & Wh...

and if any of you kids out there can play the shit that happens starting at about 61 minutes into this video, then you are watching the wrong channel:
• Guitar Lesson - Clint Strong - Mastering J...

and here is the link to enter your email in, so you get half off my upcoming course:

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Old School Friday Rewind

Chapters
00:00 - Fucking great tunes!


Notes
open your minds kids…
take a little trip back to the olden days with Uncle Larry….

#jazzcurious
#clintweak
#bobwillsowick


tryin like hell to learn how to play guitar on a Friday night through a dying echoplex

This one goes out to my old buddy Scank

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 448, Tom Bukovac, “Clam Bake”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking out on the Dean
02:45 - Uncle Larry checking in / Talent show / Homeskoolin' theme song
04:15 - Spiritual Power
04:45 - Pedals, pedals, pedals / Harmon Booster
07:57 - Uni-Fuzz
08:24 - Old Big Muffs
10:05 - '67 Pontiac GTO / Hellcat
11:12 - Tal Wilkenfeld / The Cliffs
11:56 - Allman Brothers - Sweet Melissa (out of pocket)
13:21 - War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (massive clams)
13:55 - Sign up for course - 50% off


Notes
Uncle Larry plays a little AOR radio rock and gets into the world of auto mechanics

here is the link to the mailing list
https://maximumlarry.com/course

May 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 447, Tom Bukovac, “This Machine Kills Cell Phone Cameras”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
07:18 - Out of tune / Check-in / Talent show / Hellcat
08:54 - '65 Fender Stratocaster / D minor progression / Thanks for shredding words
09:48 - Brett Papa and Rock 'n' Roll
11:00 - Daniel Tasha
11:39 - Pedal Steel and Slash
15:00 - Brett Papa class


Notes
Uncle Larry on another one of his rants

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May 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “A Complete Guide To Overdrive Pedals That Actually Work”

Chapters
00:00 - Shredding
03:28 - Howya doing?
03:49 - Harmonic Minor
04:40 - Shortcomings of the Kramer
06:55 - What makes a pedal sound like a pedal
14:08 - Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive, Blues Driver, etc.
15:47 - Boss EQ-10
18:16 - Gruhn's shopping and finding a bass
18:53 - Fender Precision Bass
19:13 - "Rare"
19:52 - Jazz bass vs Precision
21:16 - Hellcat


Notes
Uncle Larry demonstrates how he won the Cleveland Ohio "Guitar Wars Contest" in 1987...
and dips his foot in the water of talking about gear…at the risk of pissing off all the tube screamer and klon lovers

May 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 446, Tom Bukovac, "Wild 700 Horses"

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Special
01:30 - Just Larry / Real Tube and MXR Sugar Drive
02:25 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special through Princeton Reverb
02:50 - Real Tube pedal
04:58 - Nobels ODR-1
05:37 - MXR Sugar Drive
08:42 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Let everything go
09:40 - Good sound from Nobels with Les Paul comment
10:32 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
12:27 - Touring to bus level / Doing your own thing vs sideman
14:50 - Stalker Guy channel tanking
15:24 - Hellcat


Notes
Why do we still use horses as a unit of engine power measurement anyway?
Is it to further belittle the horse?

May 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 445, Tom Bukovac, “New Frontier”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:57 - In tune D chord
02:14 - Hello, friends!
02:50 - '64 Epiphone Frontier
03:33 - '64 Gibson J
05:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:49 - Dean bridge
07:11 - Dean neck
08:50 - Nut and shimming and intonation


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some stuff about guitars

May 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 444, Tom Bukovac, “Caddy Shack”

Chapters
00:00 - Dean Cadillac string change
10:15 - MXR Sugar Drive / Real Tube
12:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat / Stolen measures


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about road life and shows you a VERY rare guitar

May 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Abandoned Kitchenette”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:53 - Hotel rooms?


Notes
Uncle Larry with a road update from Reading PA with a broken bridge guitar

Love can build a bridge

This episode is dedicated to my dear old pal J.O….fellow lover of fast cars and freedom

May 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 4-4-2, Tom Bukovac, “Supercharged”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes concert gig
01:43 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
02:57 - Playing
05:14 - "Hello...?" pickup
06:55 - Chord just fell out
07:16 - John Fogerty tour with Tina Turner
08:29 - John never warms up voice - "I just trust it"
09:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
10:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster
11:10 - Microphonic pickups / Wax potting
13:33 - Lesson: Roy Nichols turnaround
15:44 - Trivia Question: No mudcap tele.  1st year Fender went to modern wiring?


Notes
Uncle Larry provides the standard fare of riffs you can pirate and not give me credit for.

Eddie Dunlap on that weird table guitar contraption