August 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 487, “Shootout At PAF Corral”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin a 3 pickup Gibson
02:29 - Hello, friends!
03:19 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom
04:00 - Best bridge pickup ever heard
05:55 - Custom bridge
06:12 - '57 Goldtop bridge
07:18 - '58 Burst bridge
08:37 - Back to the Custom
09:17 - Custom bridge
09:37 - Goldtop bridge
10:12 - Burst bridge
10:50 - Burst acoustically
11:33 - Goldtop acoustically
12:13 - Custom acoustically
12:54 - Burst acoustically
13:16 - Goldtop acoustically
13:47 - Custom acoustically / Arguing about tonewoods


Notes
Uncle Larry woke up a little bored today so he figured it would be a good time to get people all riled up arguing about tone woods again

Cue all the comments about how one of these will “sit in the mix”…even though none of us have any idea whatsoever what the actual mix might be or what song we are working on hahaaa

August 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 486, “Everything You Need To Know About The Line 6 M9”

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to the M9
03:39 - Playing into M9
04:38 - Lesson: Operation / Reverb
06:45 - Lesson: Delays
09:36 - Lesson: Modulations
10:03 - Dimension D
10:58 - Vibrato
11:34 - Phaser / Mutron 3 / MXR script logo
13:09 - Bass Octaver
13:31 - Lesson: Secret of Boost/Comp
14:15 - Wahs / Q-Filter / Expression
16:00 - Ring Modulator
17:00 - Fuzz


Notes
Retro Modeling for the ages right here friends...15 years of dust build up.

Uncle Larry takes you back to the early days of modeling with an in depth look at the only digital modeling device that he ever thought was any good.

just a few tricks and slightly inside stuff that I figured out after fuckin' with this thing for the last 10-15 years.

i apologize that you can't really see the readout screen on the M9 because of the camera angle....
but hey, free video right?

and totally unrelated, you might wanna say a little prayer for our psycho stalker friend Gus.
The poor fella was publicly humiliated badly right in front of his own micro-congregation of negativity spreading haters yesterday....caught RED HANDED flat out lying about the 1000 bucks he supposedly "donated" to me a while back....sweet mother, what a f**kin' scumbag


and here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

August 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “Everything You REALLY Should Know About A Stock Old Marshall Plexi”

Chapters
00:00 - Intro to Marshall amps / Tremolo
01:56 - Input channels
03:07 - Controls
04:00 - Best way to set them up / Volume as EQ, Bass off, Presense sounds like Zeppelin
05:54 - Playing / Making it chimey
06:56 - Awakening the beast / Getting punchy
08:15 - AC/DC-land
09:13 - Turning it up / High to Low Input
10:37 - Bass channel with Tremolo
12:10 - Switching to the other amp
14:14 - Darker on the Bass channel
15:22 - Juicing it up a bit / In the room feeling
16:25 - Not putting pedals in front / Printed circuit boards
17:27 - What does Plexi mean? / Plexi to aluminum / Harshness with some
19:03 - Spinal Tap amp - Marshall JMP with master volume


Notes
Uncle Larry gets all British on ya' with an in depth look at not-so-arguably the finest guitar amplifier ever made by the humans beings on this particular planet

Those 1968 era Marshalls with the plexiglass front and back panels


Dutton Surrey Suffolk Ipswich Charring Cross Foxhall Unity Works on the Thames

God i wish you guys could hear this shit in the room...as soon as the iPhone compressor kicks on all amps sound the same


here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....

if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...


if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

August 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 484, Tom Bukovac, “Satan’s SG and Other Earthly Delights”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing some AC/DC into some KISS
03:38 - Checking in / One song with anyone living or dead?
06:14 - '63 Gibson "Satan's SG" (parts guitar)
08:31 - '64 Gibson Firebird III
10:25 - Neck pickup
11:28 - Offset post bridge by Nick Drushel
12:23 - Too many guitars / 1970 Fender Stratocaster (Banana Yellow)
14:18 - '69 Gibson SG for sale
16:03 - '60 Gibson ES-335


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some old honk and starts phase one of a major launch party

Local pickup always preferred but I can ship guitars…just not amps

1970 Stratocaster…no excuses 18k
1969 SG Standard 9500
1960 ES-330 (already fretted) 11k

August 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 483, Tom Bukovac, “Playboy”

Chapters
00:00 - Those Blues are played
06:42 - Hey friends! / Dead clean Gretsch Playboy amp
09:02 - Blistering gig with Vince Gill / Band being tight
13:35 - Ann Wilson gig and getting tight
14:07 - Finding quality through Instagram post about restaurant (Deg Thai)
16:40 - Hellcat stereo system / Dire Straights - Tunnel of Love / Bob Seger - Night Moves


Notes
Uncle Larry plugs straight into some of Valco’s finest work …and raises questions to The Lord Himself about the great and eternal mysteries about the magical powers of live music.

This circa 1960 Gretsch Playboy amp is the cleanest one you will ever find kids....Ebo worked on it and when he handed it back to me he was like "dude, that thing is fuckin' CLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAN"...

he rarely says shit like that
1500 LOCAL PICKUP ONLY friends

two things Uncle Larry doesn't do....
1) eat oysters
2) ship amps

the thumbnail is some poor kid puking out of the back of an Uber on lower Broadway that i captured last night on the way home from the gig... welcome to Nashville Tourist Hell my friends

You might want to re-think that next summer vacation....

here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

August 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 482, Tom Bukovac, “Hot Tub Larry”

Chapters
00:00 - Altoids box amp
02:31 - Something Tony Iommi would play
02:40 - Lesson: Bending root note to sound like 60s
04:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Hornswaggling & horsetrading / Hot-tub Larry
06:44 - Replacement speaker for Deluxe Reverb?
07:36 - Gus video (Stalker Guy) / Lying about $1,000
09:29 - Learn to trust a blank calendar / Tumbleweeds
12:15 - Descriptions of videos / English language
13:35 - Straw tone and descriptive words for sound / Lynyrd Skynyrd neck pickup solo?
16:49 - Coated strings and other things


Notes
Uncle Larry delves into some blazing hot VCB and serves up some breath freshening tone with an old 55 LP Custom an a custom amp built into an Altoids box made by the fine folks at
Deluxe Amplification out of Dayton TN
www.deluxeamplification.com

August 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 481, Tom Bukovac, “The Mind Of The Musician”

Chapters
00:00 - Peavey amp
02:15 - Bench video


Notes
Uncle Larry...aka "the hornswaggler"...delves into the ancient psychology that bounces around inside the mind of the average working musician.
He discusses the paranoia of work scheduling…and even sheds some light on the up and down rollercoaster of emotions that are always at play during the many seasons of the typical lifer musician’s career…all whilst putting some brand new D'Addario 013s on a 64 j-50

My dear Grandma used to always say "The Lord loves a good old Peavey amp"...

these old Mace 320T's are not easy to find...these were purportedly the ACTUAL models that the Lynyrd Skynyrd boys REALLY used in their heyday....six power tubes delivering 160 watts of bone crushing Mississippi Marshall tone.

this particular example is barely limping along and definitely needs some love, but even considering all that it STILL sounds damn good.

i would bet this amp has never even been serviced one time in these first 50 years of its life... but the thing still runs, and even the reverb and tremolo effects still work.

i have said this many times in the past and i will say it again...Hartley Peavey was DEFINITELY the Leo Fender of his day, making affordable "field replaceable" gear that the common man could fucking COUNT on every night, no matter what the gig or the conditions were like.

i would like to personally thank a Homeskooler named Christopher Kueffler for dragging this beast down from the snowy north.

I've been listening to these old Skynyrd records RELIGIOUSLY since i was a boy....i always wanted to mess with one of these amps just to see if there was any of "that Skynyrd magic" in them, even though i always suspected it was just their hands making those tones, and not that particular amp....

however, to my amazement, in just a brief amount of time messing around with one, i can already immediately tell that these amps REALLY ARE responsible for delivering a large part of that legendary tone.

on several old Skynyrd tracks, i always thought Gary was getting what i picture in my mind as a "straw" tone...
there's a fizziness to the distortion on a lot of his sounds that reminds me somehow of a distorted guitar sound coming through a straw...follow me on this friends.
there's like a reediness to the distortion that makes it unique.

this particular lead break on "saturday night special" is one many examples of that "straw tone" in my humble opinion.
i also would bet my bottom dollar that Gary was using the neck pickup of "Bernice" on this solo, with the treble on the amp cranked.
you can hear it if you listen REALLY close...it's a neck pickup, not the bridge

prove me wrong friends..

August 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 479, Tom Bukovac, “First Glimmer Of Fall… Transitions…”

Chapters
00:00 - Looping some sweet tunes
06:21 - '69 Gibson SG Standard
07:00 - '58 Fender Telecaster
09:02 - Chopped '59 Fender Stratocaster
10:21 - '53 Fender Telecaster Blackguard


Notes
Uncle Larry regroups after the final run of his busy summer touring schedule….
it's been a TON of fun, but like the old saying goes, it's good to home friends

Special shout out to all the sweethearts who came out last night that I failed to mention in this video
Jimmy and Jill Fox
Frank Amato
Mark Reis

Great times boys...Hello Cleveland!!

here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tabs....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac @gmail.com

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

July 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Two More Days Friends”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking with the wah - Mick Ronson style
01:23 - Mick Ronson wah / Brett Papa course
02:44 - Boss BP-1w Booster / Preamp / Thanks for many gifts
04:03 - '65 Gibson Firebird / Controls and layout
06:50 - Lesson: Tom Morello boing
08:08 - Lesson: Coolest note in E (Bb)


Notes
my dear friends and fellow rock and roll enthusiasts, these next two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) are the last two days to get my instructional course at the discounted $199.00 price tag..after that it goes up to the original list price of 299.00
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

Here is the link for the new t shirts kids...
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...


Also special thanks to:
Greg for the cool Cleveland mug
Chris for the tiny amp built into an Altoids box
Pete Thomas for the Larry’s hair putty

You guys are all sweethearts for being thoughtful enough to send gifts ...i appreciate it

and....i may have found just the thing to cover that nasty route on that chopper 68 Telecaster bass i got recently ...an original 70's Hunter Ronson tour sticker

looks a hell of a lot better with a cool pickguard don't it?

Todays rig
65 Gibson firebird I
Gretsch 6161 combo amp made by Valco

July 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Thank You Letter”

Chapters
00:00 - Blues playing
03:24 - What's up, friends! / Tal/Buk show thank you
05:02 - Packages sent to the Bukovac Office catching up
06:00 - Thank yous


Notes
This video says it all for me right now

July 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 472, Tom Bukovac, “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Body”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing P90s
02:53 - What's up, friends!
05:42 - Lesson / Quiz: Prog Rock lick
06:17 - Prog Rocker?
06:44 - Course, tablature, good stuff
07:37 - Joe Walsh and ham radio
08:47 - Soulful Strat Lake Placid Blue
09:38 - Nick Govrik record
10:53 - Reading music?  Not at all / Jo Dee Messina Christmas album (A Joyfull Noise)
14:09 - '60 Gibson ES-330 / Vs ES-335 nothing alike / Hollowbody vs Solidbody
15:50 - Ted Nugent and being able to do what he did


Notes
Uncle Larry walks ya through some late Sunday night VCB on a 60 es-330

If you wanna take the plunge on the new Uncle Larry guitar instructional course here is the link...
you will learn so much shit that even your wife will be like "damn, that sounds good honey"
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

July 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 468, Tom Bukovac, “Hillbilly With A Hellcat”

Chapters
00:00 - Honky Tonk playing
06:13 - Thank you for course
08:17 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / The trashy side of comments and retort
11:28 - Real Country players / Paul Franklin
13:33 - The tuning of the Pedal Steel / Buddy Emmens, etc.
15:33 - Lesson: Steel kick
17:45 - Brett Papa course


Notes
ENDLESS thank you’s to everyone out there who took the plunge and bought the course

I am SO HAPPY that you guys dig it

Here’s the link
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

June 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “One More Time For Nicky G”

Chapters
00:00 - Nick Govrik music
02:34 - Uncle Larry coming at ya
04:01 - 3rd & Lindsley
04:40 - Gibson ES-355
05:21 - Reproduction pickguard
06:01 - Playing
09:55 - Sign off


Notes
Happy Sunday friends, come on down and see us Friday night June 27th at 3rd and Lindsley for the album release party for my dear friend Nick Govrik's new record "One More Time For The Man'....produced by yours truly, and featuring a cavalcade of guests.

Guthrie, Jedd and myself will all be playing in the backing band…it should be some good clean fun for everyone involved.

Here's the link if you wanna check it out…made with a lot of love by two old hillbillies who have been friends for a long time
https://www.nickgovrik.com/

also, go to this site to check out the amazing new Dann Huff record "When Words Aren't Enough"
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/produc...

and PLEASE don't forget about signing for my new course that should be out in about a week or so...
go to maximumlarry.com/course add your email to the list, which will allow you to get half off the price of the course.

and then, on July 18th, also at 3rd and Lindsley, check out Tal Kin Buk....a little collaboration gig between myself and Tal Wilkenfeld, also with some great special guests

June 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Macon Gold”

Chapters
00:00 - The Story of Dwayne Allman's GoldTop
03:45 - Acoustic A/Gmaj7...
04:45 - Vince Gill playing the Les Paul
07:06 - More background story
07:25 - Actual playing
07:52 - Tom playing Lynryd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special on the Dwayne's Goldtop


Notes
Hello dear Homeskoolers…dearest Richard Brent, the fella that’s shown at the beginning of this video, was kind enough to bring over the iconic 57 Goldtop that Duane Allman used to plunk on to our soundcheck today .

The guitar is usually on display at the Allman brothers museum in Macon GA, which was about a mile from the old venue we played at apparently.

What a cool old guitar, it’s certainly been through a lot in its life…lots of changes and many owners…but all you gotta do is plug it in and hear it through an amplifier to quickly understand that it’s charm is pretty undeniable.

A nice lightweight guitar with a fairly shallow neck profile, that sports a FANTASTIC sounding pair of PAF’s that are extremely balanced with rich sounding midrange.

What’s not to love?

Special thanks to Steve Harlamert

Here’s a link to some website history on the guitar

June 20th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 465, Tom Bukovac, “Livin After Midnight Ramblin’ Riders On The Storm”

Chapters
00:00 - Tom and Jedd
06:00 - Stories from the road (Ronnie Mullins)
07:00 - Acoustic strumming
09:51 - Greetings from Georgia
11:11 - Allman Brothers
12:09 - Throwing bass track down in 5 minutes
13:15 - Vince Gill shows
13:52 - Lesson: Cool lick [8 8 7 x x x] -> [8 6 8 x x x]
15:04 - Instagram
16:08 - Tal Wilkinfeld gig / Videoing at comic gigs
18:20 - Playing
19:43 - Over and out


Notes
Through the magic of “modern digital editing”, Uncle Larry creates a soft cozy quilt of Homeskoolin’ from some leftover fabric remnants that he had laying around …a coat of many colors

…AND he introduces you to the coolest thing that ever came out of West Virginia…and that my friends is a fella named Ronnie Mullins

If you guys are indeed getting some thrills out of these absolutely free videos where I NEVER ask you to “subscribe” or “smash that like button”, please feel free to donate a little something to the virtual Homeskoolin tip jar

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

You can also still buy nice soft extremely comfy Homeskoolin t shirts in many styles at this site friends
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/me...

June 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Roy D Mercer Theater”

Chapters
00:00 - Eddie Dunlap playing
06:30 - Drumming


Notes
You know you’re in a pretty good band when the pedal steel player and the keyboard player on the gig are better guitar players than most lead guitar players in other bands

Meet Eddie Dunlap , pedal steeler to the stars

a 35 year old man with the soul of an 80 year old

Not to mention a crucial drum lesson from Billy Thomas

June 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Savannah Banana”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking in a hotel
01:48 - Lesson: Lick you should know
02:38 - Savannah Georgia with Vince Gill update
04:07 - Greg Koch
05:15 - June 6th course technical difficulties
05:54 - Road hacks (shampoo, etc.)


Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from his hotel room with his phone sitting on the desk propped up by a banana…pretty high tech huh?

You do know that you are never supposed to bring a banana on a fishing boat right?

June 3rd, 2025

If interested please email tiagocastro1974@gmail.com Local Nashville sales would be preferred and price can be negotiated

Chapters
00:00 - '69 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with '68 appointments
02:31 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
05:19 - Marshall Basketweave cabs


Notes
If interested please email tiagocastro1974@gmail.com

Local Nashville sales would be preferred and price can be negotiated

June 2nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 460, Tom Bukovac, “Ghost In The Machine”

Chapters
00:00 - Jazzy intro
00:37 - Creepiest amp ever heard
04:10 - Hello / Coolest guitar
04:25 - '36 Gibson ES-50 Charlie Christian pickup
05:29 - Red felt end strings / Charlie Christian
06:52 - Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
07:40 - Lesson: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
09:40 - Course possible delay due technical glitch
10:45 - '58 Rickenbaker Capri - Autmn Glo
12:09 - Cut the cap off bridge pickup
13:56 - Dann Huff and Keith Urban
14:30 - Mellow version of yourself


Notes
Uncle Larry traverses joyfully across several styles of adult guitarisms on a 1936 ES-150….only to wind up on some old hillbilly music

editors note:
the guy i bought it from told me they are Thomastik Infeld Jazz Swing 12 strings

May 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 457, Tom Bukovac, "Does Wood REALLY Matter?"

Chapters
00:00 - Fishing out calming notes
03:20 - Old Homeskoolin' picks
04:11 - Roland Jazz Chorus JC-120
05:02 - Volume pedal swells
05:40 - Skyline Motel
06:10 - Lesson: Waterfall guitar part
09:00 - Got a 'car guy' for the Hellcat with special TN black plates
09:45 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Titles of videos, school newspaper, Creative Writing, Math
12:17 - JC-120
12:30 - Gibson Les Paul -> Duesenberg Sessionman
14:18 - Morgan Wallen records and different mixes (Wood, 808, etc.)
16:00 - Maximumlarry.com
16:30 - Ghost story / Haunted guitar
17:09 - 3 50's Gibson Les Paul acoustic shootout
17:26 - '55 Custom
17:53 - '58 Special
18:18 - '52 Goldtop
19:00 - Lesson: E F G A B C D E


Notes
I was just thinking to myself...what would be the funniest most bullshit clickbait video title i could possibly think of...

here's a cool old track...the legendary Richard Bennett on acoustic...Uncle Larry on electrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPyzrdsKhe0