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September 23rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 505, Tom Bukovac, “Sea Sick PTA Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Playing with some vintage equipment
Notes
A look at one of my top 5 favorite pedals ever designed
The Maestro MPF-1 Parametric Filter
Norlin’s finest moment
Sorry about the slow moving camera waves... i can't play without tapping my foot and making a ruckus.
if you don't have your Dramamine you might wanna skip this one friends
September 22nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Part Two, “The Willowick Lineman”
Chapters00:00 - StudioSweet playing that goes into a loop
04:30 - Lesson: Bmaj with Blues E pentatonic Blues
Notes
Uncle Larry takes a quick break from the big game at halftime to discuss a few of the harmonic ideas that have been racing through his head all day …
You guys would not believe what goes in there…
like for example, when my Cleveland brain puts C major, F major and G major in a blender, it all roughly adds up to a E pentatonic blues smoothie
It almost works over the F chord in this silly loop…almost
You see it?m friends?
On a more important note, we are lucky to be able to witness a football game played at this level friends ..two incredible teams dukin’ it out on prime time television in front of millions of hard working God fearing Americans.
Fall is indeed here my dear Homeskoolers
For the record I got Detroit plus 5 tonite
PS: do you think that poor kid Gus could read this chart?
September 18th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 502, Tom Bukovac, “American Distortion”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin' and a Rollin'
01:46 - What's up, friends / Calling in sick
02:40 - Wonderful overdrive? Nope, Boss GE-10 / Reverb buy
07:04 - Gildan / David Ferguson and new kid
08:26 - Playing
09:45 - NFL / Gambling
12:10 - Lesson: Whole chord vibrato
12:42 - Old compositions covered on YouTube / New material
15:30 - Ziggy Art Studio poster
18:22 - Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Notes
Uncle Larry fights off a late summer sinus cold to bring you some quality guitar related content and savvy reporting from deep in the streets of the modern day guitar culture.
The episode I couldn’t think of the name was “Volume 87, The Big Apple”
check out the new 500th episode print at
https://www.ziggysartstudio.com
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....
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 and have learned a ton of shit from this channel, and you feel led to make a little donation....please feel free
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@Tom-Bukovac-1
September 11th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus , “Aftermath Of A Dream”
Chapters00:00 - Ziggy Art Studio prints / Morning music
04:07 - What's up, friends / Guitar Party rehearsal - Nicki G
05:07 - Playing: Delay
Notes
If you want to check out the print to commemorate the 500th episode:
https://www.ziggysartstudio.com
If you want to come see the show Saturday night at 3rd and Lindsley:
https://www.3rdandlindsley.com/tm-att...
September 10th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 499, Tom Bukovac, “Nature’s Fifths”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin' it
08:04 - Good morning people / Having a guitar that in tune
09:36 - Doing different things with harmonics
10:50 - Saturday night gig / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
11:22 - "What is that white box?" / Step-down transformer
11:53 - "Bashing vintage guitars?" / Lamborghini guitars / Expensive ES-335 / Class war
16:40 - T.A.L.K.
17:48 - Percussive palm mute / Ibanez Smashbox / Korn Heavy Metal tones
Notes
Uncle Larry explores the cosmos on a 60 junior that is particularly compliant about being in tune
September 9th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Farm To Table”
Chapters00:00 - Exploring the galaxy
06:29 - Well, hello, friends / The Guitar Party at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville
07:13 - John Fogerty BMI tribute
08:47 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Custom 3 to 2 pickup wiring
09:40 - Boss Preamp Waza BP-1w
Notes
Uncle Larry invites you all to a gig this Saturday night at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville
September 8th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 498, Tom Bukovac, “There’s A Bathroom On The Right”
Chapters00:00 - Getting heavy
05:20 - God, that's loud / NFL
06:44 - Playing and honoring John Fogerty
08:22 - Billy Gibbons guest
08:43 - Ziggy Art Studio new 500th episode poster
10:27 - Lesson: The smear; Fogerty down a whole step; Fortunate Son / Bad Moon Rising
Notes
Oh, and by the way, don’t go round tonite …cuz it’s bound to take yo’ life…
https://www.ziggysartstudio.com
September 3rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 497, Tom Bukovac, “Feels Like Cleveland”
Chapters00:00 - Strumming away
01:06 - Hello, friends / Early mornings
01:54 - P90 shootout forgotten guitars / '79 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe
02:55 - '79 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe bridge
03:35 - '61 Gibson SG Special / All time favorite live gig guitar
04:12 - '61 SG bridge
04:55 - Vince Gill tour
05:26 - '61 SG bridge - turning the volume down bridge
07:09 - '63 Firebird V bridge
07:53 - '61 SG bridge
08:09 - '79 Deluxe / Mini-humbucker different than Firebird pickup / Toaster top pickup
09:33 - Rick Beato show with David Gilmore
11:34 - NFL starting / Hot tub
12:40 - "What makes a man, a man?" / 2 propane tanks and avoid a fat wallet
13:54 - "What amps are you using in the studio?" / Marshall
15:12 - Shootout comments / '65 Firebird I bridge
16:13 - '61 SG bridge
Notes
Uncle Larry shows you some of the different sounds available in the “smaller sized” pickups
September 2nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 496, Tom Bukovac, “P-90 Miles Per Hour”
Chapters00:00 - Taking a strum into Rock
01:56 - Hello, friends! / T.A.L.K.
02:47 - '59 Gibson TV Special Double Cut / Clear coat on the headstock
04:43 - P90 shootout
05:31 - Double Cut bridge
06:17 - '65 Gibson Firebird I bridge
07:17 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special Single Cut bridge
08:25 - '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop bridge
09:13 - '55 Gibson Les Paul Custom bridge
10:04 - '60 Gibson Les Paul Junior bridge
10:55 - '60 Junior acoustically
11:15 - '52 Goldtop acoustically
11:38 - '58 Single acoustically
11:56 - '65 Firebird acoustically
12:11 - '55 Custom acoustically
12:27 - '59 Double acoustically
12:55 - '58 Single acoustically
13:32 - There's really magical shit in these guitars
14:35 - '58 Single bridge
14:58 - '52 Goldtop bridge
15:07 - '60 Junior bridge
15:28 - '65 Firebird bridge
15:50 - '55 Custom bridge
16:32 - '58 Single bridge
Notes
Uncle Larry gets balls deep into some old Kalamazoo and shows you several variations of nature’s single coil, the Gibson P-90
i totally forgot to include my 61 SG special in the mix....this might call for a recount
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:
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August 28th, 2025
Homeskoolin Volume 494, Tom Bukovac, “Raising the Bar(re)”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin'
01:18 - Hello, friends! / Tuning
02:14 - Lesson: Bar chords / Forms
06:00 - Yes - Tempus Fugit
07:26 - Back to the lesson
07:49 - Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
Notes
I always wondered why they put the extra “re”on barre chord in guitar books…are they just trying to be fancy?
Just a quick message to show you the sheer importance of knowing barre chords if you wanna be a legit garage rocker
August 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin' Volume 493, Tom Bukovac, "The Big Let Down"
Chapters00:00 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Special
03:10 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special
Notes
Today friends, your dear Uncle Larry proves the old adage that "you gotta have the right parts for the job".....
i knew it was too damned good to be true when I found what I THOUGHT was the right bridge for this '59 tv specula in an old parts drawer
it's ok friends, you win some, you lose some
August 24th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 491, Tom Bukovac, “Cups And Cakes”
Chapters00:00 - Intro to bench / Spinal Tap moment / '60 Gibson Les Paul Special
03:08 - Bridge going to put on guitar
05:00 - Born at the wrong time / Making things easier / Would you really go back?
09:42 - Putting strings and bridge on
21:05 - Greg Voros string changing contest story / Playing
Notes
Uncle Larry brings a whipped old 1960 LP Junior Into the 21st century of tuning and brings up a question that we must TRULY soul search to answer.
August 23rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 490, Tom Bukovac, “Barbecue Party”
Chapters00:00 - Picking and a plucking
05:09 - Hello, friends! / Parties / Fender Telecaster
08:30 - Garage Sale and shootout
08:43 - Fender Telecaster Maple
09:36 - '60 Fender Telecaster slabboard
11:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale / Acoustic
12:48 - '69 Gibson SG
14:43 - Gibson "Satan's SG" SG
15:43 - Playing
16:50 - Princeton amp / Fiddling with the knobs
18:05 - Lesson: C#dom7 chord open B string
Notes
Uncle Larry plays some old honk on a magical top loader and shows a few cool instruments that are about to be released from captivity
Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
Greg Voros in full rock star mode on the album cover thumbnail
(Greg Voros appears courtesy of Electra Records)
August 19th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 487, “Shootout At PAF Corral”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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
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August 13th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ “Everything You REALLY Should Know About A Stock Old Marshall Plexi”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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..