July 29th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “For Old Car Lovers Only Part 2)

Chapters
00:00 - Pontiac GTO history


Notes
A nostalgic look back through almost 60 years of history here friends...
i have pieced together the full list of the four owners of the 1967 Pontiac GTO

1) Frank Musso (1966-2012)
2) Al (don’t know last name) (2012-2020)
3 Bruce Shaw (2020-2024)
4) Uncle Larry (2024 to present)

it’s truly amazing how organized some people are....due to Frank Musso’s amazing record keeping, this car is one of the few old cars left that tells a real story
hope you guys enjoy this walk down GM memory lane

July 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 477, Tom Bukovac, “Mona Lisa’s Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Ole time Rag
08:24 - Hello, friends! / Schedule from Gill gig
09:17 - '56 Danelectro Bass
10:24 - Old car show? / Hellcat
12:00 - Derek & The Dominos - Layla (Eric Clapton)
14:15 - Derek & The Dominos - I Am Yours
16:00 - Lesson: I Am Yours
18:35 - Jimmy Gordon


Notes
Just checkin in with my Homeskoolers after getting home from a weekend run with Little Vinnie's Traveling Circus

This summer has literally flown by my friends

Seems like just yesterday we were firing up the first rehearsals for this gig...
and now this upcoming weekend is the final run for our little ensemble…

and just take a guess what fine city will be hosting our final out of town show....

if you guessed Cleveland Ohio, you were correct.
how fitting right?

Here is the link to Uncle Larry's new instructional guitar course...over eight hours of detailed professionally shot multi camera lessons with tab....
if you check the comments and look at what people have commented on Gearpage (if you can stomach it) t has been getting rave reviews from even the most skeptical tight ass consumers who desperately WANTED to hate it.
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

if you are being thoroughly entertained by the content of this channel, and you feel led to make a donation to the guy behind the guy, please feel free

the guy behind the guy's PayPal address is:
tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬

the guy behind the guy's venmo address is:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

July 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “For Old Car Lovers ONLY”

Chapters
00:00 - Shop where GTO was worked on


Notes
Warning…if you don’t give a fuck about old cars, PLEASE skip this video IMMEDIATELY and move on to the next “10 things you are doing wrong at the sports bar blues jam” video you were planning on watching

Todays feature?

Kiwi Classics and Customs in Franklin TN
https://www.kiwiclassicsandcustoms.com

It literally took me 56 years of searching before I found a single guy who works on old cars who isn’t clinically insane

and here he is…

This is his YouTube channel
• 67 Pontiac GTO, Tip Top Rag Top!!!

…and once I post this video he will be too busy to ever work on my stuff again

Bob’s your uncle

July 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin Volume 476, Tom Bukovac “From Pontiac To Kalamazoo”

Chapters
00:00 - Black Sabbath - Changes / Ozzy Osbourne & Beatles influence
02:21 - Tour bus on the road
06:27 - Picture this groove
09:25 - '67 GTO
12:42 - Paco from Argentina
14:51 - '61 Gibson J50
15:37 - Looking forward to show
16:12 - Friend Paco Gibson shootout
17:02 - R8
17:32 - Burst
20:18 - Neck pickup
25:25 - Conclusion


Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from the road ….this video covers a very wide everything from Nativity In Black to His/Her shifters

We start out with a small tribute to the Oz….
followed by a moment with Ronnie Mullins, the greatest bus driver in the history of show business

Then we have a new song and a check in from uncle Larry….here’s a link to the video of Kiwi working on my 67 GTO convertible for all you old car nerds
• 67 Pontiac GTO, Tip Top Rag Top!!!

and lastly we have my dear old friend Paco giving us a quick shootout between a new Gibson R8 and a real 1958 burst, Argentinian style

you can certainly hear and feel the difference in this video….but I have to say, actually being IN THE ROOM, the difference between these two instruments was “shocking” to say the least…and a good illustration of the contrast between two instruments with WIDELY varying price points.

Here is a link to my new instructional course friends
https://www.brettpapa.com/maximum-lar...

And here is a link to the new “Maximum Larry” t shirts and all other Homeskoolin swag
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/to...

July 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update, “Sweet Tysons Virginia”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking away in hotel Virginia
03:00 - Hello, friends! / Vince Gill update / New t-shirts coming
04:58 - '30s Gibson C1
06:08 - GTO
08:49 - Lesson: Cool chord - very pleasing C chord


Notes
Uncle Larry checks in from the road

just wait til you guys see this new Homeskoolin t shirt fast ball that is about to come across your plate…all you gotta do is swing your bat and it’s an instant home run friends

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 448, Tom Bukovac, “Clam Bake”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking out on the Dean
02:45 - Uncle Larry checking in / Talent show / Homeskoolin' theme song
04:15 - Spiritual Power
04:45 - Pedals, pedals, pedals / Harmon Booster
07:57 - Uni-Fuzz
08:24 - Old Big Muffs
10:05 - '67 Pontiac GTO / Hellcat
11:12 - Tal Wilkenfeld / The Cliffs
11:56 - Allman Brothers - Sweet Melissa (out of pocket)
13:21 - War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (massive clams)
13:55 - Sign up for course - 50% off


Notes
Uncle Larry plays a little AOR radio rock and gets into the world of auto mechanics

here is the link to the mailing list
https://maximumlarry.com/course

May 1st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 435, Tom Bukovac, “Must Be Present To Win”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow playing into funky character
05:12 - Hangnail hello
06:10 - Lesson: Fingerpicking a sick decent
07:50 - Redneck Woman played on
08:06 - '52 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with p90s
08:36 - Thanks for Dean Z playing
09:20 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Wife's bitching
09:44 - Trying to 'parent' Larry about selling guitar for car / GTO trade
11:40 - Best ES-335 you had
13:22 - Work on my gallop picking / Not Triplet / Correction from son
14:29 - Lesson: Bb7 lurking in that F minor (Fmin6 [1 x 0 1 3 x])
16:35 - Lesson: All the magic is in the VI
17:42 - Lesson: Coolest pedal steel licks
20:00 - Lesson: VI continued [x x 17 16 15 x] (F#min -> Emin -> Dmaj -> C#maj -> Bmin -> Amaj -> Gmaj -> F#min)
21:09 - Lesson: Chord = Recipe of notes
28:22 - Name that song


Notes
Uncle Larry plunks on the retro and answers some blazing hot VCB

March 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 410, Tom Bukovac, "The Vigor"

Chapters
00:00 - Hair of the raunch
03:19 - Oh, hi guys! / Problem with audio
03:57 - Magnatone amp - 450
04:30 - Playing: Magnatone
05:26 - Playing: "Jazz version Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker"
05:53 - "Coming to America" (good funny movie)
06:40 - The Cliffs - Easy Way Out / New released band
07:29 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Haggling any good?" Yes / Tips
08:54 - Estate sales
10:01 - "Wheel and deal for fun?" Yes
10:47 - Most amps just don't have enough mid range
11:20 - User "DeerCreek" blocked from channel
11:56 - "Charlan Maine Collective" - "Play newer Gibson Les Paul with less finesse" / Play what you want
15:23 - The Cliffs / Driving the GTO


Notes
Take 2, had to pull the first one cuz of a problem with the audio

Thats aighhht...this one's way better anyway.

Uncle Larry blasts through some blazin' VCB and some hot old Magnatone tubes Ray Estey style

February 27th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 404, Tom Bukovac, “The Thirteenth Floor”

Chapters
00:00 - Restringing Martin D28 Aged Authentic / 12s to 13s on acoustic
02:48 - Genesis
11:44 - Pontiac GTO
15:00 - Gibson ES-335 sold / Cleveland
19:28 - Jacob Colier
21:34 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry finally recognizes the errors in his acoustic ways…

This old video kinda went under the radar…the making of “Black Cloud” off the GT TB “In Stereo” record...lot of fun stuff in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LDLMlt3Ck

February 26th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 403, Tom Bukovac, “AM Radio”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming on not so thick strings
01:39 - What's up? / Yuengling
02:14 - Lesson: Underrated chord [x 5 7 0 7 0]
02:52 - Lesson: Another chord [10 10 9 0 8 x]
03:16 - Lesson: Cmin6 same as Fdom7 (same thing)
05:19 - Lesson: Another great chord [x 8 x 8 9 8] / Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
06:29 - Pontiac GTO original radio
07:24 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Increasing profanity
07:53 - "Deep thoughts" - view of the world after YouTube
09:49 - People want to see someone fall or lose / Dave Grohl
11:55 - Bill Burr bashing
13:15 - "Deep thoughts" - Summary
15:00 - Done with 12s and going to 13s on acoustic / Strings


Notes
Uncle Larry delivers the third video of the day…it might be a world record ….

November 28th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Hot Holiday Pick

Chapters
00:00 - Happy Thanksgiving to all


Notes
Follow Larry to the pay out window today friends

Oh and happy thanksgiving


You gotta buy that half down to 3 boys

Gonna be 30 pct vig but it’s a lock

November 27th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 365, Tom Bukovac, “Dual Gate Shifter Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello friends / Jenn Senn in Shell Pink / Changing strings
04:19 - Gibson Firebrand X talk / Pickups
05:02 - Cutting the strings
05:39 - Spanish tuning
07:41 - Strings D'Addario
08:40 - Stratocaster string wraps
09:03 - Pontiac GTO / Looking for a mechanic
11:23 - Birthday gig Dec. 20th 3rd & Lindsley / Thanks
13:33 - NFL: Giants
18:53 - Playing: The Who - "Teenage Wasteland"
20:02 - Special 'Blues over Major' playing
21:35 - Strings stretching and changing intonation / Cutting the spring
24:54 - Lesson: Test chord (Bmaj/E) [0 14 16 16 16 0]


Notes
Uncle Larry tries to exhume a Senn Strat from a thick coated shell of acidic hand residue and waxes rhapsodic about ratchet shifters and the internet

November 13th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 359, Tom Bukovac, “The Bitter End”

Chapters
00:00 - Bluesy playing on the Strat
06:07 - What's up, friends! / Playing
07:38 - Some singing (Cops), called the "New York Blues"
10:25 - Name That Lead - $2 / Sam Bettens / Name That for a $1
12:00 - Update / Pontiac GTO / Gibson GA-83s
13:40 - Lesson: Key of E to the V
14:42 - Playing Layla (Rita Coolidge, Jim Gordon, Eric Clapton)
16:04 - Outro / Special Fuck-offs / Playing


Notes
Hey GT and Jedd-o…this sounds pretty damn New York-y to me…you fellas wanna play it at the show?

I can already picture it…

you guys…with your heads back and your feet up on the intermittent monitor wedges…lettin’ it eat while helpless droves of excitement drenched female onlookers with heavy Brooklyn accents swoon and sway….pointing your bolt on necks heavenward in the glowing red halo of a poorly aimed par can …

Here’s a link for the gig we have booked in Chicago in February for all you early bird
https://www.axs.com/events/757974/guthrie-trapp-tom-bukovac-tickets

November 12th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Boner….uh sorry, I mean Bonus…”Goat Tone”

Chapters
00:00 - Pontiac GTO walkaround


Notes
Gee, I hope this thing gets good gas mileage…I was looking for something economical…

51k original miles…I am the 4th owner

All numbers matching ….all the original paperwork including original window sticker

Includes the PHS paperwork

335 horse 400 cid motor

Automatic transmission

Power brakes

Spent most of its life around Ft Collins Colorado

Original owners name was Frank Musso

A true grade A chunk of metalpussy here boys….straight from the glory days of Detroit

November 11th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 358, Tom Bukovac, “The Death Of America’s Team”

Chapters
00:00 - Taking that Gretsch higher
05:28 - Beatles - "The Sun King" (singing and playing)
07:24 - John Lennon bashes Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger
09:04 - Roland JC-120 (Jazz Chorus 120) / Blackface Twin Reverb
10:13 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
10:47 - Pontiac GTO delivery
11:29 - Sam Bettens
12:21 - Lesson: Raised 5th on minor
13:20 - Child rearing comments
14:10 - "Stupid Boy"?
15:35 - Twisters movie / Recycled stuff
16:26 - Originality / David Essex - Rock On / Herbie Flowers / John Deacon
18:51 - "You don't talk about women"? / Private life and class
19:56 - Otis Gibbs, Guthrie, Jedd
20:31 - NFL
23:05 - "Most amateurs get wrong"
24:58 - "Is tone in the hands?" / Nothing to do with gear
25:55 - Making up a Will and writing the letter


Notes
Uncle Larry covers a wide swath of VCB in one swell foop on this Veteran's Day holiday….
Everything from gettin’ laid to the Abbey Road medley.

here is that Lennon interview i mentioned
• John Lennon vs Mick Jagger

If you are indeed getting something out of these real time journal entries , please visit the tip jar

PayPal is Tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

November 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 356, Tom Bukovac, “Metric Modulation”

Chapters
00:00 - Slow lullaby into pickin' madness
02:51 - Rare phone fall & restart / Hello / Guthrie & Jedd
03:53 - Jedd Hughes gig / Working together and not against
05:42 - Son's Chopped Les Paul
06:16 - John Fogerty series / Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi
07:26 - Groove on "Born on the Bayou"
09:23 - Airline amp
11:21 - Livestream / Big Apple vs. reclining / Big thanks to people all over
13:13 - CC Deville & Poison vs. Bob Dylan
14:01 - Lesson: 7/8 groove
15:25 - Playing the drums
15:57 - GTO
16:27 - Footage: Amazing drumming and groove / Guthrie show
18:37 - Snake man - George Gruhn


Notes
“Metric modulation” friends…the new hip phrase to replace that old fashioned “ hemiola” word we all grew up saying….(look that one up if you are not familiar)

Anyhoo, thanks for tuning in and supporting my pitiful little channel friends...sorry i'm a little out of tune today....i used to care

If anyone feels compelled to donate a little love to your socially challenged old uncle you can do so at these links

PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com.
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1


Here’s the link for the upcoming New York livestream people

https://volume.com/t/kRhYIQ/

Guess who the snake man at the end of this video is?

November 7th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 355, Tom Bukovac, “Build Sheet Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - 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