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

Here is the link to join the mailing list friends

I PROMISE I will never mail bomb you….it will be tasteful
https://maximumlarry.com/course

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 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

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 441, Tom Bukovac, “Joggers In The Fog”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
03:45 - Hello, friends
04:52 - Morning check-in / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
06:00 - Diane Warren song (Taylor Dayne)
08:37 - Lesson: Playing
10:10 - Vince Gill / Playing songs like an apple
12:42 - Durango Hellcat
13:27 - Tinnitus?
14:15 - Parent a grown ass man
15:22 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB before shuffling off to the mill.

May 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 440, Tom Bukovac, “The 5th Of May”

Chapters
00:00 - One of those great tangents
08:29 - Hi friends / Fender Vibro Champ Reverb
11:11 - EVO SRO (Electro-Voice)
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Bought a Hellcat Durango
12:57 - Liqui Slide
13:15 - Strymon Timeline
14:16 - Boss SDE-3000
14:45 - Hotel rooms and Dodge Durango Hellcat color (Destroyer Gray)
15:38 - The Essential Craftsman (YouTube channel)
17:42 - Play with humor and grace / Like a little bit of mess
19:00 - Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Happy birthday Bub!

if you guys like rock and roll, you can always throw something in the tip jar
my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated...how crazy is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9u5xUFEDQQ

May 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 435, Tom Bukovac, “Must Be Present To Win”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow playing into funky character
05:12 - Hangnail hello
06:10 - Lesson: Fingerpicking a sick decent
07:50 - Redneck Woman played on
08:06 - '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with p90s
08:36 - Thanks for Dean Z playing
09:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Wife's bitching
09:44 - Trying to 'parent' Larry about selling guitar for car / GTO trade
11:40 - Best ES-335 you had
13:22 - Work on my gallop picking / Not Triplet / Correction from son
14:29 - Lesson: Bb7 lurking in that F minor (Fmin6 [1 x 0 1 3 x])
16:35 - Lesson: All the magic is in the VI
17:42 - Lesson: Coolest pedal steel licks
20:00 - Lesson: VI continued [x x 17 16 15 x] (F#min -> Emin -> Dmaj -> C#maj -> Bmin -> Amaj -> Gmaj -> F#min)
21:09 - Lesson: Chord = Recipe of notes
28:22 - Name that song


Notes
Uncle Larry plunks on the retro and answers some blazing hot VCB

April 30th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Garage Sale “Upper Tax Bracket Edition”

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson ES-335 for sale
03:36 - Playing
07:13 - Do not want to ship
07:46 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry throws one out there for the older own your own business type crowd.

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if interested

I did forget to mention, the original crumbled mummy toe tuners are in the case…nice repros currently on it

I would LOVE to sell this local and not ship friends

I would consider shipping ONLY if someone was willing to pay 500 to cover next day air

January 17th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 392, Tom Bukovac, “Burst Believer Fever”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends (creepy version) / Running out of gas
03:00 - Teaching the song "Signs"
04:25 - Mailbox Burst / History of the Burst
13:00 - Alex Harvey Band - Faith Healer
13:57 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Thanks for videos
14:58 - Homeskoolin' family
15:55 - Lady Madonna improve
16:20 - Alfred Hitchcock intro
17:30 - Losing weight / Richard Simmons
18:55 - Hockey
19:20 - Jeff Beck mods
20:19 - Tom Bukovac vs Charlie Davidson vs Devin Falco
22:20 - Gibson Burst
28:33 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry restrings 8 6785 (Jenny Jenny…who can I turn to?) whilst slaving over a hot slab of recent VCB after a long day at the session mill.

here is a fascinating video you have probably already seen...but if you haven't, you're welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwQPwfZvlY

October 6th, 2022

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Music City Motor Club”

Chapters
00:00 - Some hot rods


Notes
This one is strictly for the motor heads out there.

October 6th 2022, Blackbird Studios in Nashville TN.

Day two of a Morgan Wallen session…which turned into a bit of an old car show on this beautiful fall day

Starring:
Jimmie Lee Sloas
Joey Moi
Bryan Sutton
Little Davey Cohen
Josh Diddy
Jerry Lee Roe
Richard Healey
Ryan Yount
Joey Stanca