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March 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 414, Tom Bukovac, “Lord Of The Shims”
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction to Nick Govrik's new album
02:57 - In the studio
03:34 - Hello, friends / Bench video Gibson ES-330 spacers/shims
04:56 - Epiphone Casino / Keith Urban
05:13 - "I like short shorts" sticker / '60 Gibson ES-330
05:45 - Pickup too low / Mo Pitney
08:47 - Shims
17:33 - '55 Gibson Les Paul Custom / Backstory
20:40 - Custom middle position
21:54 - Pickup height
22:02 - Custom neck pickup
22:33 - Custom bridge pickup
24:55 - Lesson: Double hammer-on
25:00 - "Retro doink"
Notes
It won’t be long now friends…til Uncle Nick’s record will be available for purchase on CD and vinyl!!
Nick Govrik
“One More Time For The Man”
I ain’t gonna lie , we are so damn proud of this thing…truly a labor of love.
The boy can write a song and that’s no joke
…and in other news , we got a quick little clip from todays country and western session AND a failed bench experiment that gets saved by the glory of some ancient Alnico…can I borrow your stapler?
March 27th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 413, Tom Bukovac, “American Plumber”
Chapters00:00 - Chugging on a PRS
02:20 - Hello, friends!
02:38 - Paul Reed Smith / New pickups
03:24 - Alpha male
04:00 - New no truss rod neck
04:44 - New PRS pickups
05:30 - Rickenbacker video comment
06:00 - Endless sustain
07:00 - PRS bridge pickup
07:36 - PRS neck pickup
08:15 - Stratocaster single coil
09:15 - Gibson SG P90 / Not as crystalline as Strat
10:36 - PRS one more time / Cross between: Strat sounding P90
12:20 - PRS neck pickup
12:50 - Les Paul Special P90 neck
13:58 - PRS same lick
14:35 - Sessions today
Notes
Uncle Larry gives ya an idea of what the new PRS guitars are all about
I’m really proud of Paul, he ain’t fuckin around …
I appreciate any man who wants to push the boundaries in this life
March 22nd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “387 Amigos”
Chapters00:00 - Some 60's song
01:24 - Hello, friends! / 3 video of the day / Vintage guitar show / Big names
02:25 - Tommy Emmanuel
03:18 - Gibson ES-330
04:34 - Bring P90 bridge pickup up / shims
05:12 - Bridge vs Neck pickup
05:37 - Playing / Shredding / Beatles montage (05:58)
07:00 - Vince Gill tour
07:50 - Playing: The Cars - Moving in Stereo
Notes
Strictly a public service announcement to encourage you to get your ass down to the big ass vintage guitar show tomorrow at the Williamson County Ag Center
You’ll miss these shows one day friends
March 17th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 408, Tom Bukovac, “Velvet Hammers”
Chapters00:00 - Fishing out those sounds
04:36 - Hey, friends! / Cleveland trip and neighborhood
07:40 - '52 Gibson Les Paul P90 Goldtop
08:25 - "Velvet hammers" (soft notes)
08:57 - Roland JC-120 - chorus off
10:06 - Les Paul pickups, out-of-phase sound
11:15 - "Let me play for a minute"
11:40 - Lesson: Blues in key of B and pre-bends
14:22 - Guitar Riot store / Son bought a MIM Stratocaster / Whatever you like
15:50 - Out-of-phase sound / Replacement bridge
16:45 - Lesson: Expressive pre-bends
17:27 - Gilmour and pre-bends
18:00 - "Fuck off" / "Grown-ass man making videos..." (Stalker Guy)
Notes
anyone that has given their life to the fretboard instantly knows and feels it when a certain guitar is giving you velvet hammers….and what a precious gift it is
today’s amplified signal is coming from my beloved old Roland jazz chorus 120…if you have never owned or tried one of these legendary amps you are making a serious mistake
they are, in a word, magic
March 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam "Stump Grinder"
Chapters00:00 - Raunch of the best kind
Notes
Kalamazoo grind is the nastiest kind...
if you likin' what you seein' h'yeahhh....the tip jar is SOO close
paypal is tombukovac@gmail.com
venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1
January 17th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 391, Tom Bukovac, “Cable TV Special”
Chapters00:00 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special / No refret restring
Notes
Uncle Larry prepares for another day at the mill and waxes rhapsodic about the early days of television.
December 29th, 2024
Homeskoolin Volume 383, Tom Bukovac, “Plastic Cymbals and Status Symbols”
Chapters00:00 - Pleasant Prince morning music
03:17 - "...never meant to cause you..." Hello, friends! / NFL and hot picks
04:26 - Little league football
05:09 - Electronic drums
06:44 - '65? Gibson Firebird I (Ember Red)
08:00 - Lesson: Prince - Purple Rain / Add9 / Beatles / Flanger and Chorus
10:05 - Realization about virtues of a '59 Burst
18:20 - Betting
Notes
Uncle Larry reflects about many things on a fine Sunday morning
December 16th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 376, Tom Bukovac, “The Great Gear Trap”
Chapters00:00 - Looping some 70s goodness
06:05 - Alright / Shitty kind of sound to sound good (poke)
07:15 - NFL
07:31 - Thanks for new camera view / Muscle memory
09:47 - Lonely Christmas and cheer
11:00 - Willie's 90th Birthday lookback / Benmont Tench, Gabe Witcher, Greg Leisz, Terence Higgins, Beck
13:25 - Drugs...never have done them...just a joke
14:10 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Jamie French
14:50 - Modeling and marketing / "Am I good enough for the gear" / Pool playing analogy
18:58 - New amp made by Paul Reed Smith / Jimi Hendrix & Duane Allman bullshit
21:35 - Cool outro
Notes
Uncle Larry glances off several cars in the VCB parking lot before finally crashing into the side of a building
November 30th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 367, Tom Bukovac, “Big Boy Guitar”
Chapters00:00 - Cranking on the guitar
01:05 - Music City Bridge
02:20 - Hi friends! / NFL / 8 days of my life
03:46 - Impersonation Contest
05:46 - 1960 Gibson Les Paul Junior - Tom Boots with matching amp / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale
08:20 - $15,000 guitar and amp fixed by Ebo
09:35 - Another Fender Telecaster incoming
Notes
Step right up friends and secure the rights to the best guitar you have....
Email tombukovac@gmail.com
check out this sweet kid...fuckin awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VTdVhFW35E
November 7th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 355, Tom Bukovac, “Build Sheet Blues”
Chapters00:00 - Getting those hard blues ZZ Top tones from Junior
06:16 - Hello, friends!
07:20 - Lesson: Ever heard of a 145?
08:37 - Pick / Jed Hughes show / Guthrie Trapp / Warm environment gig
09:50 - Kid Rock / Cigar smokin'
11:00 - Sons as music critics
11:40 - All The Young Dudes - Mott, Bowie, Ozzy
12:06 - Lesson: All The Young Dudes
14:17 - Western Swing Bumblebee type playing
14:46 - Lesson: Focus - Hocus Pocus (Am, Em7, Fmaj7, Bb, E7#9) -> (Am, Em7, D, B, E)
15:42 - Name that song / Sessions / Jed Hughes gig / Playing
16:32 - Lesson: Pull-offs
17:48 - "No politics/religion on this channel"
18:25 - Gibson Les Paul Junior - Tom Boots guitar
18:39 - Pontiac GTO / Fender Telecaster Blackguard sold / Playing and singing
Notes
Uncle Larry treats another old Gibson with very little respect, and checks the pulse of America a day or two after the keys to the Castle were given to the Orange Man…
Come out to the basement tonite and see Jedd…..damn he’s good
October 28th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 353, Tom Bukovac, “Low Hanging Chords”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking some good ole guitar
01:50 - Hello, friends! / Freak accident in baseball cage
03:04 - NFL channel / Washington v Bears game
04:12 - Lesson: How to view chords / Knowing the fretboard / Root, third, fifth
11:40 - Lesson: Sound like a baritone / Cmaj [3 3 2] Dmin [5 5 3] Emin [7 7 5] F [8 8 7]
12:29 - Out-of-phase sound '52 Gibson
13:10 - Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel into melodic playing
13:38 - Lesson: Climbing up from the V chord
14:20 - Deep Larry from Brett Papa videos / Just the 3 bass strings coolness
Notes
Uncle Larry explains why you are basically fucked if you don’t instinctively and instantaneously know the notes on the neck …and talks about the “miracle at northwest stadium”
it has been well proven in the past on this channel that you guys simply do not give a FUCK about any type of old school country swing guitar, no matter how difficult, involved, or challenging it may be, but i am still doing it anyway... cuz i like it.
if i was going for likes and views i would just play tenths using only 6min, 4, 1, and 5 chords and sing "uh...uh...uh...." over it, because i know thats what you guys REALLY want
October 2nd, 2024
Homeskoolin' Bonus "Led Boots"
Chapters00:00 - Tom Boots '55 Gibson Les Paul Jr.
03:16 - Hello friends / '55 Gibson Les Paul Jr.
04:00 - In tune with Music City Bridge Studfinder
04:18 - Cars / Low E string and Tweed Deluxe
05:47 - Comparison with Gibson SG Special P90
07:00 - Gibson SG Special
07:52 - '55 Gibson Les Paul Special
08:25 - Thomas Boots Jr. / Thunky and chunky / On 10 and The Who - Pinball Wizard
Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class a piece of Nebraska history.
R.I.P. Thomas Boots
September 19th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 342, Tom Bukovac, “Play Your Ass Out”
Chapters00:00 - '70s rockin' and singing
02:44 - Turning the knobs on your guitar / Secret treble bleed
05:05 - Lesson: Making it sound British enough / Play softer / Bag of subtleties
08:00 - Lesson: Old school '60s sound
08:46 - Thank you to Nick Drushel / Frets on guitars
09:30 - No shortage of tone on the SG Special
10:08 - "What kind of fret wire"? / "What kind of action" / Action and setup
11:38 - SG vs. Les Paul (sustain and dead spots)
12:34 - Nylon saddles
13:13 - Fret jobs
16:25 - Rebinds
17:20 - Neck sets / Gruhn knowledge
21:16 - Sting - Bring on the Night - Piano solo by Kenny Kirkland
Notes
There’s a hilarious old bit of Nashville session folklore that I have heard since I first moved here…
It’s about a Japanese record producer who didn’t quite “know the lingo” getting really excited on a session and yelling “you play your ass out!!” to all the musicians hahaaaa
September 14th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 340, Tom Bukovac, “Camera Shy”
Chapters00:00 - Plucking those unusual chords beautifully
01:07 - Changing it up to an amazing progression
01:32 - Lesson: Dm - Gm - C - F - Ab/C - Caug - F (Etta James - At Last) / Best R&B Singer
03:21 - Gibson Les Paul Special from the '50s / What friends' guitars do you like?
05:27 - Greetings first (pet peeve) / Family
06:15 - The Doors - Love Me Two Times
07:35 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Sonically Pleasing Record?" AC/DC - Back in Black
08:50 - Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of (damn good sonic pleasing properties)
09:48 - Lesson: Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
11:00 - Dodge Ram truck stereo with Zach Bryan music
11:43 - Forgotten how good records can sound
12:46 - Keith Urban
13:07 - V vs. Explorer
14:11 - "Has YouTube changed you?" / Ham in front of a camera now
16:30 - "Guilty pleasure album?" / CDs and multi-load CD player / Liz Phair
18:17 - Banding together in Nashville / Variety
19:48 - Bruce Springsteen concert best ever / Bad muther fucker
21:53 - "Good guitar sound live?" / Blackface Deluxe Reverb & Tweed Deluxe
Notes
Uncle Larry gets deep in the weeds early on a Saturday morning ….
What’s he building in there??
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
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
TAGS
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 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 Special TV Yellow (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 21st, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 319, Tom Bukovac, “Big Wheel On East 319 St.”
Chapters00:00 - Strumming unusual chords
01:10 - Surfaris - Wipeout / Key of B / Capo / Talent show
02:11 - Lesson: Fast downstrokes
03:07 - Rocking the P90 / Best middle P90 sound
03:33 - Lesson: Chord everyone messes up
04:28 - Compelling VCB stuff from last video / Crickets in house
05:30 - Leopard Gecko story escaping / Caging animals
07:43 - Nolan Ryan documentary
08:05 - Contest
08:33 - How often refret? Once
09:03 - Jazz eternal background music? / Constant programming of Pop
09:03 - Mexican restaurant music / How much would it cost to get you to do something horrible game
10:20 - Ever fall in love with shit guitar?
11:05 - Do you ever play in stereo? / John Shanks
12:38 - Circle of Fifths strumming
13:02 - Who are your favorite Jazzers? / Bluegrass fast way to go broke
13:56 - Favorite fret size wire? Original
14:24 - Zappa / Souless?
16:13 - Tribute band / Support you by playing instrument / The Gear Page GE-7 placement
17:41 - Wade Bowen
Notes
Uncle Larry.... lookin like hell...fresh out da bed with hair goin' everywhere….and he STILL does a video for ya' because he basically gives zero fucks
Do you really think Larry is gonna let ya down when there is some hot fresh VCB of THIS quality to be attended to?
i said in this video that nobody bothered to enter into my little contest, but i see now that there actually were a few guys...i'll announce the winner tomorrow
East 319 St. friends...
it can still be found in a place called Willowick Ohio... a little suburban street of matchbox houses just like any other, the only difference being that Larry happened to grow up on this one....
can't you just picture that little blonde haired 6 year old boy riding his beloved Big Wheel toy bike up and down those cracked salt stained sidewalks in the brutal winter lake effect cold ...next stop, Willowick....next stop, Willowick...
oh hell, let's watch it again....it's worth it
Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in ...
and....since we have a lot of new viewers coming along recently...
let me tell ya' how shit works around here...
first off, i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....
if you do indeed learn some useful stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...
you can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1
but wait....THERE'S MERCH TOO!!!!
a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/me...
AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com
You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.
A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to...
one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album...
another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/alb...
There is also an instrumental record Larry made with Guthrie Trapp called "In Stereo" that can be found here...
https://bakedalaskarecords.com/produc...
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