May 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 452, Tom Bukovac, “Gold Tooth Display”

Chapters
00:00 - That Dean sustain
01:23 - Hi, friends / Ebo Reverb for preamp
03:15 - Lesson: Chord that no man should be able to play [25 5 4 4 2 0] Dmaj7913
03:48 - Vince Gill power trio
04:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:00 - Tal Wilkenfeld / Freaky brains
18:30 - Gretsch 6161 amp / Trade bait ES-330 for Bubba


Notes
Uncle Larry rambles a bit on this fine Wednesday....special thanks to the boys at Gruhn's for dialing in this old Dean Caddy....it's on fuego now

The thumbnail depicts the first of many bumps and bruises that the new Hellcat will be sustaining over it's next few years of rigorous speed testing on the poor helpless streets of Nashville Tennessee

so, do you guys think that Gus could play what happens starting at around 2:47 of this video?
Alcatrazz - Yngwie Malmsteen

i might have just been a dream, but i think i may have heard Gus play something similar to this one night at a mind blowing Chinese buffet gig in St Lous when he was doing music from his seminal instrumental heavy metal album "Master Of Peepees"

July 25th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 326, Tom Bukovac, “Junk Food Larry"

Chapters
00:00 - Nice calming vibrations
02:56 - What's up, friends! / Intro / Nashville guitar day / Fretboard Journal call
04:56 - "Insufferable" Larry in the studio / Visions
05:55 - Guthrie Trapp & Tom Bukovac - In Stereo vinyl final product
06:42 - Gruhn's, Guitar Magazine, Eric "Ebo" Borash
08:09 - Album thanks
08:28 - The Gear Page guy equates videos to "junk food"
09:57 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Cast of characters
12:21 - Les Paul measuring tool for the safe
12:34 - "Need to see curled lip"
13:05 - Guthrie Trapp New York trip and gigs in November
14:30 - Joe's Shanghai, Blue Ribbon Sushi / Drinking beer from glass
15:00 - "Guitar players mostly playing for other guitar players?"
16:12 - Musicians that constantly use the volume and tone / Nuances in tone
17:58 - Compression (compressor / 1176) / Darkening the tone
18:45 - Football season
19:23 - Sessionman get paid? / Never ask someone about finances / Unspoken bro code
20:33 -'57 Les Paul Gibson getting refretted at Gruhn's


Notes
Uncle Larry strums a little tune for ya' on a chunky old Gibson with “double grams" as they say in the biz...

can you play like this?.....yeah me neither...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol09CeTzm0

so let's say you feel like you are indeed learning a lot from these silly videos i make...and maybe you are starting to feel a liiiiiiiiittttle bit guilty that you haven't thrown something in the tip jar to help with my personal one man crusade to bring chords back to music...well friends, you can fix that today....

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