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 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…