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September 6th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 335, Tom Bukovac, “Red Zone Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Pluckin the P90s
05:10 - Hey friends! / Bukovac birth (father rheumatic fever and heart attack)
07:10 - NFL game
08:52 - Tom Bukovac vinyls after 50 years old / Old friends catching up Mark Bright / Carrie Underwood
11:53 - '52 Gibson Les Paul / Show stopper / Neck pickup is amazing
15:02 - 50 watt tremolo plexi through Bogner 212
16:19 - That Fizz enemy
17:20 - '52 Les Paul / MojoAxe bridge
17:55 - "Wasn't sure at first" / Neumann u67 mic / Let the instrument teach you
Notes
No, I didn’t use a 335 for this episode…it was too cliche
September 5th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 334, Tom Bukovac, “The Arc Of Life”
Chapters00:00 - Some traditional guitar
03:25 - Hello, friends!
04:00 - '57 Gibson Les Paul / Mark Bright, Carrie Underwood connection
05:41 - Looking back on life ("Arc of Life")
09:19 - Black Keys stuff / Dan Auerbach & Pat Carney
09:38 - Creative studio vs Corporate studio / Music as a painting and delivering
13:47 - Randall Bramblett / Putting your hearts into it vs. time and budget radio play
14:52 - Playing the Goldtop / Good guitar gives you everything / Thanks
16:04 - Led Zeppelin stealing, but amazing / Blues
Notes
This is the tune I mentioned, but check out this whole record friends…
Randall Bramblett
August 26th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 331, Tom Bukovac, “Royal Power Pop”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking out a song to a loop with a little Leslie in it
03:23 - Hello, friends! / Life update / NFL diddy
04:46 - Morgan Wallen session
05:58 - '79 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe / Playing
06:30 - Lesson: Blue Oyster Cult / 2 parts as one / Burnin' For You
07:30 - Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper lyrics
09:00 - "Hardest thing about being a session man?"
11:00 - Numbnuts from Tulsa in the comments / "Jam off" / "Off his meds"
13:53 - The Gear Page Moderator and getting banned
14:45 - Lesson: Smear with hammer into bend / Pre-bend dead in tune
16:50 - Lesson: Bending strings / Tightly slammed fingers
Notes
Uncle Larry gets his English melody on.
God Save the Queen
so, do you think i even stand a chance in a "jam off" against this fella?
August 24th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “White Funk Railroad”
Chapters00:00 - Doing that funky playing with a loop
Notes
You can bust some shit up real good with just two chords…music is mostly about rhythm.
The rhythm and the phrasing of the notes gets noticed by the human ear more than the actual notes themselves get noticed
In this example it’s just the 1 to the 4 back and forth in the key of C
If you get bored by just two chords, keep in mind that this groove actually has one more chord than “chain of fools” by ‘Retha does
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August 22nd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 330, Tom Bukovac, “Idiometry”
Chapters00:00 - That Country type thing
07:57 - Uncle Larry hello/update (Morgan Wallen / Dan Auerbach) / Thanks
09:10 - '52 Gibson Les Paul
10:04 - Lesson: Staying withing idioms or it just sounds untrained
12:42 - Playing into singing
13:49 - Buying a Plexi / Update / Playing
Notes
Uncle Larry checks in in the middle of a long week of plunkin’ on guitars to pay the rent.
If you haven’t seen this yet, please do yourself a favor and watch this video friends
• I interviewed legendary guitar player...
Please understand, my interest in this video has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that he mentions a couple things about uncle Larry here and there…what I TRULY LOVE about this video is how it so clearly showcases what a beautiful person Dann is and always has been
so sweet , so genuinely humble..so supremely talented….such a special guy
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August 14th, 2024
Tom Bukovac, “Gold Digger”
Chapters00:00 - Looping some amazing shit
Notes
A little tone from way back before the patent was actually granted …
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August 3rd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Garage Sale with your host Peter Blacklarge
Chapters00:00 - '69 Gibson Les Paul Custom - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale
Notes
Thanks for tuning in friends
This is gonna be someone’s daily driver
Respond to tombukovac@gmail.com for in person pickup
That white 63 sg special I have with the vibrato arm is about to get thrown on the launch pile
That thing is TOTALLY tricked out Larry style…
Accepting offers on that
July 31st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Who’s On Burst?”
Chapters00:00 - 3 of the finest guitars on planet Earth.
01:14 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup
02:10 - Option B - Neck pickup
03:07 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup
03:57 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup 2
04:42 - Option B (1959) - Neck pickup 2 (Lightest one in weight)
05:29 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup 2
06:06 - Option C (1958) - Bridge pickup / B-string D note
07:22 - Option B (1959) - Bridge pickup
08:22 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
09:10 - "This shit makes me nervous" - Jedd Hughes / Second time around - Bridge pickups
09:52 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
10:46 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
11:25 - Neck shapes? / Bridge pickup
12:23 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
13:13 - Conclusion
Notes
Killin time at rehearsal with some golden age Kalamazoo…talent by Jedd Hughes
Lets hear your thoughts on favorite neck pickup and favorite bridge pickup…cuz we sure as hell can’t say
July 15th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 325, Tom Bukovac, “The Fumble”
Chapters00:00 - Making that guitar hum along
03:10 - Howya doing? / Blake Shelton
04:10 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Moving and cleaning crew
05:18 - Beers starts to hinder playing? (6 beers)
06:03 - Classical?
06:40 - J.D. Vance
07:07 - "Lightning in a Bottle?" / Sometimes magic happens while creating / Demo is always better
09:29 - Missing kitchen, missing garage / Changing something that's good
10:06 - "Wall of amps"
10:24 - AC/DC Marshall cabinets on stage
11:44 - Fuckin' kick ass cleaning company
12:06 - "The Fumble"
13:33 - The landscape of life ("Old man going through changes" - "Divorce", "Flood", "Death of Best Friend", "Rebirth")
Notes
Uncle Larry covers some events of the day and brings back a painful memory that still haunts Clevelanders to this day....can you imagine living with the fact that YOU are the guy who is associated with an event known by any sports fan in America simply as "The Fumble"....
Even Scott Norwood feels sorry for the poor guy....
The truth is that Earnest Byner's career game that day was the only reason that his team was even in the position of potentially winning that game in the first place...but nobody remembers that part.
...and dig this backline friends…damn...
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey L...
music is so much cooler now
July 15th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “The Secret To TRUE Happiness”
Chapters00:00 - Finding those notes
01:00 - What's up, friends! / New Homeskoolin' set / Big life decisions
02:45 - Sincere thank you / Rick Beato video
03:40 - Cleveland boy moving on up
Notes
Well friends, the first thing old Larry did after he finally got all his beat up old gear into the new Homeskoolin World Headquarters studio was put together a new work bench that he ordered off the Amazon…
God…I am absolutely TERRIBLE at putting together unassembled furniture and shit like that….but i l finally got it.
It’s nice to have a place to work on my shitty old guitars again.
they are all a mess since my whole life has been completely uprooted….but that’s all about to change .
I just strung up and set up my trusty old 58 burst so I have at least one guitar that is feeling real good….cuz tomorrow it’s right back into the session fire…working with a very picky producer with high expectations.
The move is basically finally over praise the Sweet Baby Jesus….it’s time to start playing guitar again and thinking about music instead of where that coffee table is gonna go…
Thanks for hangin with me dear Homeskoolers
July 3rd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Original Owner”
Chapters00:00 - History of Bukovac Burst / Mailbox letters
02:24 - History of Bukovac Doubleneck
03:26 - History of Bukovac Goldtop
https://obits.al.com/us/obituaries/huntsville/name/larry-lee-obituary?id=11959074
https://southerngaragebands.com/dynamicsauburndale.html
https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2020/09/26/polks-hit-making-country-musician-composer-carl-chambers-dies-73/3546106001/
Notes
Uncle Larry does a bit of guitarcheology on the eve of America’s birthday…
Just throwing up a Hail Mary here that someone out there might happen to recognize the young fella in the black and white photo holding what I affectionately refer to as the “Mailbox Letter Burst” (serial number 8 6785)
This video also shows Larry Lee, the fella who I believe might be the original owner of my 58 Gibson EMS-1235, (the 50’s doublenecks oddly did not have serial numbers)…and Darrell Ellis, the fella that might be the original owner of my 57 Les Paul Standard Goldtop (serial number 7 3293)
Happy 4th my dear friends…and like I say every year, don’t blow your fingers off ferchrissakes
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July 3rd, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Unskinny Bench”
Chapters00:00 - Intro / Old strings / Cancel culture
Notes
Uncle Larry restrings his trusty old 1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard whilst proudly displaying what 55 years (well 39 actively) of drinking ice cold beer will inevitably do to a man’s belly.
...and for your curiosity, here’s this bloke called Jesse Wells that i mentioned...the one that some posh internet bird made a video about trying to cancel....what the fuck ever...
a lot of folks don’t like his style or his voice…you may not either, i totally get it.
personally, i think he’s cool.
even if you hate it, you gotta admit the boy has a way with words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyem3gD6XN8
oh, and by the way, i got a guy working on the "touched by an uncle" t shirts that many of you have been asking for.
here's the donation links to the Homeskoolin' channel if you are so inclined
paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
venmo is @tom-bukovac-1
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July 1st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 323, Tom Bukovac, “Mrs. Duckwiler? Please Hold My Calls”
Chapters00:00 - Raw Blues
02:32 - Hello, friends! / Squeaky chair / Leisrure Time Lager
03:37 - Thank you for donations / Churning out material
04:33 - Missing Episode 244
05:09 - Raw Dogging Flights (no entertainment on plane)
06:42 - Gibson Les Paul TV Special (07:26 - story) / Brian Willis (Quarterflash)
08:29 - Gwen Stephani record and good P90 sound
10:13 - Recording tone Heaven with Goldtop (Starstruck Studios)
11:12 - Top 5 guitars / Cannot pick them out
13:50 - Great rhythm guitar track? / Ry Cooder (based entire rhythm guitar upon him)
16:00 - Lesson: Rhythm / Not putting your guitar volume on 10 / Germanium fuzz
Notes
Uncle Larry gets jiggy with an old 225 Parsons Street Firebird plugged into a forgotten old Epiphone tube amp with some particularly trashy reverb
Thank you guys for the continued support of my pitiful little homegrown channel....i hope you guys TRULY understand how much i appreciate the donations and the kind comments. it inspires me to continue on.
study this people...study it so much that it seeps into your soul and your playing.
https://youtu.be/9V9jtHjno9w?si=tal3n...
people just played differently back in this era...musicians were speaking a much deeper more soulful language....and it was happening EVERYWHERE
the tulsa sound with the leon russell crew... the muscle shoals band...the memphis studio crew... the nashville sound...it was all so rhythmic and so musical
pay REALLY CLOSE attention to this pocket that these guys have cooking here.
so relaxed., so funky....the chug, the churn, the wobble of this rhythm section is just fucking unbelievable.
no it's certainly not "perfect", or even "precise".... but it's human as fuck...and it gets that booty shakin' more than a computer ever could.
just one of many great examples of the mature/wise beyond their years musical interplay that was commonplace back in these days...no big deal, it was just the way people played.
oh, and imagine this friends....these guys were all in their 20's when they did this shit
and TOTALLY unrelated, but equally as awesome....
you guys have all seen this before...but it's time to watch it again....pure comedic genius
https://youtu.be/QIKsvWgoYss?si=o0LpP...
June 30th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 322, Tom Bukovac, “Turn Me On, I’m A Sideman”
Chapters00:00 - Rockin out
06:05 - "Ebo" Tweed Deluxe / Magic settings / Granny wisdom
07:33 - Update
08:14 - Get on The Gear Page / Tendency to rush guitar playing (BobbyS) / Practicing "rests"
10:49 - Afraid of the holes and space in music
12:34 - Class Presentation turn out
13:40 - Tiny little world / Vice President (String Locker)
14:38 - Rick Beato interview
16:12 - Pompus in reviewing someone's guitar player
17:42 - Fix something on the house
Notes
Uncle Larry gives you some more deep early morning thoughts and heats up the tubes on a whipped old super late tweed deluxe (1961) that looks like someone peed on it.
if this channel is indeed a consistent source of musical ideas and concepts you regularly steal, please pay the toll at
tombukovac@gmail.com (paypal)
@Tom-Bukovac-1 (venmo)
it all helps my friends....i'm going broke trying to get the boys moved into a house that they are actually gonna want to invite their friends to when they are all old enough to drive and smoke weed out of a toilet paper roll with a hole punched in it...
now i need that grill that all the brats are gonna get cooked on...and the cut up vegetables that get grilled with a little olive oil and salt inside the tin foil....you know what i'm sayin'...
June 25th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 320, “The Hallmarks Of An Intermediate Level Guitar Player”
Chapters00:00 - Update, thanks, and life experiences
05:25 - New chapter of Home Skoolin' and evaluations
07:43 - 4 Things of Intermediate Guitar Player
08:03 - #1: Choking the neck / Killing the tone / Light touch players
10:42 - #2: Rushing playing the guitar / White people
12:09 - #3: Lose nervous chatter / Leave space
14:32 - #4: Involuntary vibrato
17:23 - Summary / Let's people know you are serious with intent
Notes
Uncle Larry can’t play for ya today, but he can sure talk.
Written by Mutt Lange, all of these amazing backing vocals were multi-tracked by one guy, Johnny Colla
• Huey Lewis & The News Do You Believe...
Music is so much better now
June 20th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 318, Tom Bukovac, “How To Write A Song”
Chapters00:00 - Eagles - Victim of Love
01:16 - What's up class!
01:42 - '73-74 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe chopper / Doug Jarrell (Rumbleseat)
03:35 - Fernandes Telecaster
05:00 - New house / '70 Monte Carlo for sale
06:33 - D'Addario endorsement and buying strings/ Goodrich volume pedal / Thanks
08:00 - How do you write songs? / Building songs
10:00 - Have your interest in guitars waning? / Goldtop and Burst are the top / Total instruments (less than 50)
12:23 - Thoughts on tribute bands? (Fairweather)
15:00 - Pop song chords vs Jazz song
17:15 - Listening to Genesis / Conditioned to listen to 4 chords music
Notes
Thanks for watching friends
I wanted to give a sincere thank you to Doug Jarrell for the fine work on my instruments
To D’Addario and Andy Pitcher for the supplies
To the boys at Goodrich Sound for the bangin’ new volume pedal.
Upcoming things to look out for:
In Stereo vinyl will be here in early July, appreciate your patience on that
There are still a handful of tickets left for the Guthrie and Uncle Larry record release parties in august 16 and 17…it’s about to be sold out
There are still tickets around if you wanna come see old Larry plunkin in the band behind Vince Gill at the Ryman for a few nights August 1-4
Guthrie and I are going to Hotlanta next week to film an episode with Rick Beato talking about our new record as well, so keep an eye out for that too friends
If you are getting something out of these videos, every little contribution helps
My PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
My Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
June 17th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 317, Tom Bukovac, “English Birds”
Chapters00:00 - 70's imagery
01:20 - Van Halen tuning / Hi friends!
01:43 - The Butter trick
02:10 - Rock Williams band story
03:07 - Lesson: The Butter trick (get that fu fu) / Knife pick attack with upstroke
05:10 - Early morning chess / Uncle Larry Garage Sale Tele went fast
05:57 - '52 Goldtop
06:25 - 3rd & Lindsley Bukovac & Guthrie special guests gig
07:05 - Wrist pain, arm pain, carpal tunnel / Arthritis / Hand stretches
10:27 - "Got a pool guy yet, Larry?" / Need for a pool guy
11:08 - What does it cost to make a record in Nashville? / Break down of costs
14:10 - Milwaukee completely furnished studio for cheap
14:56 - Funniest comment? Namath DJ your party
17:20 - Some gal that interviews people
18:00 - Tube amps and Eric "Ebo" Borash
Notes
Uncle Larry dives into some deep VCB waters and serves up the recipe for butter tone, whilst continuing the tour through the various colors of XTS t shirts
May 27th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 313, Tom Bukovac, “Rumours”
Chapters00:00 - Playing some unique licks with an attenuator
00:25 - New upcomer and Heart - Barracuda
00:35 - Loop playing with soul
04:05 - Hello, friends! / Memorial Day tribute / Starbucks tangent
05:38 - Update / Vince Gill gig at Ryman
06:30 - Bukovac & Guthrie show w/ special guests
07:25 - Back to playing that beautiful music
08:35 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Attenuators?
09:35 - Do you use direct sounds? / Direct rack effects (TC 2290, etc.)
11:39 - Gibson SG Special and playing
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Uncle Larry WILL indeed be playing with Vince Gill during his residency at the Ryman August 1 through 4…that gig is firm, officially "on the books" as they say in the biz....
...but this other thing that I overheard some weird drunk guy blabbing on and on about at the bar last night is definitely NOT confirmed by any stretch…
the guy was saying something about some gig by two Nashville guitar nerds who were all excited about some dumb instrumental record they made...i can't really remember the details because i wasn't really listening...
i do remember though that he kept saying that it’s ESPECIALLY NOT supposed to happen on those two calendar days that fall in between august 15 and 18...but thats about all i remember
and totally unrelated...
hey guys....if you DO like this channel and you ARE stealing all my free ideas, please visit the tip jar.
this shit doesn't grow on trees ya know
paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
thank you friends
May 14th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 309, Tom Bukovac, “From Dusk Til Dawn”
Chapters00:00 - The Blues coming to town
04:10 - Bad jacks / Hey, friends! / Suffering the Summer
05:40 - Cool gifts / Charles Bukowski Envelope Filter
07:38 - Not really a wah or filter user
08:34 - Shit in life that really works (Advil, Dawn, Music City Bridge, etc.)
09:25 - Amazon is making pedals now
10:35 - Base tone sound
11:30 - Amazon Distortion / Liking Amazon
13:00 - Thanks / Building & writing a song
15:40 - Techniques ("devices"), styles, mixing it up
17:30 - Killer show "Rust Valley Restorers" with Mike Hall
Notes
Uncle Larry revels in late spring with a 57 PAF goldie and a hot cuppa joe
....and he tries out a coupla pedals too....
more CD's are coming early next week....1500 have already sold and we hastily ordered 1000 more cuz we didn't think we were gonna sell that many
Vinyl coming very soon
thank you for your patience friends
May 6th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “No User Serviceable Parts Inside”
Chapters00:00 - Strumming along
00:37 - Hey friends! / Gildan
01:26 - '56 Gibson Les Paul Special
02:15 - Strymon Flint Reverb
03:03 - Reverb comparison
03:33 - Back to the guitar
05:21 - Another '58 Gibson Les Paul Special
06:08 - Quarter inch up on the pickup
07:21 - Back to the '56 bridge pickup / Pukey middle sound
08:16 - Bukovac & Guthrie Record
Notes
Don’t adjust your set, you are not seeing double…it's just two TV specials from the golden age…
In the video I failed to mention that the neck on the 56 that’s for sale is a good bit chunkier than the one on my '=58.
If interested email me at tombukovac@gmail.com
to buy the Guthrie Trapp "In Stereo" record click here friends
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/products/in-stereo-cd