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

October 27th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Bonus, "The Early Years"

Chapters
00:00 - Bending the Country out of that thing
01:36 - Real quick check-in
02:02 - Old school pedalboard
04:11 - Boss Dual Overdrive SD-2, Boss Tremolo TR-2, Hughes & Kettner, Tube Rotosphere, Nobels, ODS-1, Boss, Dual Overdrive, SD-2, V-Wah, PW-10, Tremolo, TR-2, GE-7, Ernie Ball, Volume
05:53 - Custom Shop Tele relic / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale notice
08:09 - Lesson: Old Country Western licks


Notes
Thanks to Jeff Grossman for unearthing that ancient photo

This tele is a custom shop 2021 "1960 Telecaster Custom HVREL"

which i assume stands for "heavy relic"...or "heavy fake memories" as i call it

Its a super fancy custom shop piece that comes ALL the outrageous case candy...AND i put some good brass saddles on it for ya...you're welcome