August 20th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Hamburgers With Legs”

Chapters
00:00 - Geckos
05:25 - Gruhn's secret way of pressing guitar guards /
10:15 - Bent/cupped guard
10:58 - Old Strat tilted pickup twisted



Notes
If you don’t consider yourself to be a TRUE homeskooler you might want to skip this one lads.

Long form TOTALLY random content…a little something for everyone here in this patchwork quilt of slice of life moments from your old pal Uncle Larry.

Starring:
Marshall
Leo
The Leopard Gecko gang (Drake and Dotters)
Bubba
Greg Voros
Drew
Joel
Corey

…and the rest of the Gruhn Guitars family

June 21st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 319, Tom Bukovac, “Big Wheel On East 319 St.”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming unusual chords
01:10 - Surfaris - Wipeout / Key of B / Capo / Talent show
02:11 - Lesson: Fast downstrokes
03:07 - Rocking the P90 / Best middle P90 sound
03:33 - Lesson: Chord everyone messes up
04:28 - Compelling VCB stuff from last video / Crickets in house
05:30 - Leopard Gecko story escaping / Caging animals
07:43 - Nolan Ryan documentary
08:05 - Contest
08:33 - How often refret? Once
09:03 - Jazz eternal background music? / Constant programming of Pop
09:03 - Mexican restaurant music / How much would it cost to get you to do something horrible game
10:20 - Ever fall in love with shit guitar?
11:05 - Do you ever play in stereo? / John Shanks
12:38 - Circle of Fifths strumming
13:02 - Who are your favorite Jazzers? / Bluegrass fast way to go broke
13:56 - Favorite fret size wire? Original
14:24 - Zappa / Souless?
16:13 - Tribute band / Support you by playing instrument / The Gear Page GE-7 placement
17:41 - Wade Bowen


Notes
Uncle Larry.... lookin like hell...fresh out da bed with hair goin' everywhere….and he STILL does a video for ya' because he basically gives zero fucks

Do you really think Larry is gonna let ya down when there is some hot fresh VCB of THIS quality to be attended to?

i said in this video that nobody bothered to enter into my little contest, but i see now that there actually were a few guys...i'll announce the winner tomorrow

East 319 St. friends...
it can still be found in a place called Willowick Ohio... a little suburban street of matchbox houses just like any other, the only difference being that Larry happened to grow up on this one....

can't you just picture that little blonde haired 6 year old boy riding his beloved Big Wheel toy bike up and down those cracked salt stained sidewalks in the brutal winter lake effect cold ...next stop, Willowick....next stop, Willowick...

oh hell, let's watch it again....it's worth it
Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in ...

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...

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

but wait....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/me...

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...

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/alb...

There is also an instrumental record Larry made with Guthrie Trapp called "In Stereo" that can be found here...
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/produc...

August 21st, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 237, Tom Bukovac, "Crickets"

Chapters
00:00 - Softly strumming away
02:49 - What's up Homeskoolers / Skin cancer surgery update
04:08 - PAF book and discussion
06:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Vintage guitar reference books
08:38 - Thank for kind words
09:00 - James Burkett guitars
11:07 - NFL starting up
11:45 - Lesson: Cool chord - open G tuning [x 4 7 0 7 0]
12:41 - Ann Wilson gig and why not touring
13:17 - Movie of the making of Ann Wilson album by Chris
14:40 - "What have you been listening to?"
15:40 - Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots Fucking Awesome!
16:35 - Battle of the bands back in the day
18:23 - Hipsters stealing Uncle Larry's shit
19:15 - Jealous not English?
19:55 - How do you stay confident? / Something to say
22:45 - Playing acoustic
23:53 - What is your least favorite instrument?  Trumpet / Kenny Chesney hates slide guitar


Notes
Do you hear them? My living room is a cricket serenade at this point...bought 25 yesterday to feed to the pair of leopard gecko lizards that my dear boys have as pets.