December 30th, 2025

The AC-15 Channel Volume 551, Tom Bukovac, “Back Seat Psychology”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming away into melody
03:18 - Hello, friends
03:47 - Lesson: The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
05:17 - The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (Pop record crafting)
07:22 - '63 Gibson ES-335
08:42 - You can tell what kind of person's mind by the messyness of backseat of their car
10:20 - NFL
12:12 - Revisiting The Pretenders album


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about “big mo”…and various and sundry other items, whilst simultaneously coaxing tones out of an “exceptionally fine condition” (as George Gruhn would say) 1963 Gibson ES-335 being amplified by a particularly pleasing sounding early Vox amplifier.

July 25th, 2020

Homeskoolin’ Volume 57, Tom Bukovac, “Fade Into Cleveland”

Chapters
00:00 - Island music intro
02:36 - Hello, class!
04:02 - RIP Peter Green
04:20 - VCB name / Reasonable man
05:24 - "A Good Friend of Mine"
06:00 - The Pretenders / Lesson
06:48 - String changing
07:28 - Mosrite Combo / Noisy
08:27 - Horizontal layout of chords


Notes
A brief chat family discussion about the VCB.

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