August 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 686, Tom Bukovac, “Doozy Day”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Duesenberg Double Cat
02:36 - Hello, friends! / Fall
03:15 - Duesenberg Double Cat / John Oats / Morgan Wallen / Fakin' steel
04:41 - Playing: Faking pedal steel
05:53 - "Weird EQ" / Coolest moves on a multibender
06:22 - Lesson: Keeping the G while hitting the B
07:41 - "That move right there"
08:51 - Getting to a cool Major 7
09:51 - "Cool move" / "Sound of the benders"
10:51 - Lesson: Crippled by the slide
13:27 - '63 Gibson Firebird V / Taking out high end by swapping potentiometers (pots)
16:26 - '64 Gibson Firebird III
19:00 - Robert Keeley - Tube Drive
19:38 - The Doors - People Are Strange


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class the discontinued Duesenberg Double Cat Multi Bender guitar that he has been wrestling with for almost 20 years now….and then he gets into some old Firebird minutiae

January 5th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 556, Tom Bukovac & John Oates “One On One”

Chapters
00:00 - John Oates story of selling guitar
01:35 - Interview with John
03:44 - "First moment you knew were a rockstar?"
06:00 - "Oates and Hall?" / USA for Africa signatures
08:19 - Waylon Jennings, "Fuck this shit!"
08:35 - Ray Charles speaks
09:57 - A.I.?
12:35 - Dan Auerbach
14:20 - "Smash or Trash"
16:54 - Badass pedalboard influence
18:30 - John Oates update / 3rd & Lindsley
20:46 - Deep Hall & Oates cut? "Had I Known You Better Then"
21:54 - What's the song you would erase?
22:18 - Setting up a guitar


Notes
A brief interview with one of the coolest dudes I have ever known in this wild and crazy business of music….the legendary John Oates.

As you can clearly see here, just a lovely laid back fella, with a great sense of humor and a shitload of talent.
What’s not to love?

Hope you kids enjoy watching this as much as I enjoyed chatting it up with him

Check his website for tour details friends

December 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 545, Tom Bukovac, “Let The Good Times Roll”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends
01:19 - 2009 Duesenberg Double Cat from John Oats
05:00 - Playing
05:42 - Fine tune adjustments on multibender
08:22 - '63 Gibson ES-335
09:46 - Playing
11:56 - "Middle sound" of ES-335
12:13 - "This is awesome" / Playing some Cars - Let the Good Times Roll
15:14 - Salude / Jazz strings


Notes
Uncle Larry gets home from an honest day’s work and shows the Homeschooling community a couple cool guitars that showed at the research laboratory today for further evaluation

Special thanks to John Oates and John Ladas from Black Magic Vintage Guitars