July 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 664, Tom Bukovac, “Knuckles”

Chapters
00:00 - Remembering a great musician / Deep cleaning process
08:22 - "Don't get caught up in the notes...and lose the feel"


Notes
This video is in memory of an old friend of mine …a a piano player from Cincinnati named Jimmy Nichols …or “Knuckles”, as the legendary record producer Mark Bright used to call him

I haven’t seen Jimmy in a few years, but we worked together A LOT in the late 2000’s ….i remember back around 2007, i walked by him one time in Starstruck Studio on a session while he was talking to someone on the phone, and I heard him blurt out “yeah man , it’s 120k for 8 weeks”

When he hung up the phone with whoever he was talking to, I said “yo dude, WHAT is 120k for 8 weeks??”

He said “the Faith Hill tour man…I already asked you about it a while ago and you said no”

Needless to say , at that moment I reconsidered hahaaa

He was lovable oaf…he will be missed

Friends, I implore you as I also tell myself …ENJOY EVERY FUCKING SANDWICH because we all know how fleeting this life is…which leads me to the beginning of today’s little clip

every man on this earth needs a little place of respite. …even if it’s just an average run of the mill stereo system, maybe with some cool old records to listen to , maybe some nice coffee to drink and a cool old chess board to teach his sons how to play the greatest game ever invented

And yes friends, all those records are alphabetically organized.

July 10th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 663, Marshall Bukovac, “Deep Cleanin’ Loops”

Chapters
00:00 - Father and son moments
05:45 - Loop


Notes
Re-posted due to technical difficulties

My sweet 13 year old boy Marshall gives us some insights into the mind of a young musician/e-biker

In an attempt to take advantage of the down time from my recent illness, we have been doing some INTENSE deep cleaning around the ol’ crib here

We took a whole truck load of stuff to the goodwill, bought a half dozen big totes and literally brought a zillion pounds of stuff we don’t use anymore out of the house

Friends, I know you can relate, is there a better feeling in this world than “the great purge”?

Special thank you’s to dear Glenn Gunn and dear Richard Garrett for their recent contributions to the channel

July 8th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 662, Tom Bukovac, “Get Your Groovemaster On”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello Homeskoolers / Music City Bridge saddles
02:20 - 1 saddle at a time to match old saddles / No string tree string wrap on peg
04:00 - Listening for a difference in the saddles
04:22 - Part 2: Looking good
05:45 - Part 3: Taking time / Documentaries
07:37 - Playing / Intonation / Trifecta
09:43 - Playing / Ryan Adams


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya how to turn your Strat from zero to hero

https://musiccitybridge.com/products/...

I’m tellin ya friends …this MCB shit really fucking works …I can already tell the guitar is WAY better than it was …check em out friends

Check out these docs

The Grand Coulee Dam
The Brooklyn Bridge
Flood In The Desert

July 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 661, Tom Bukovac, “The Salmon Mousssssssse”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Stratocaster in Jeff Beck style
03:58 - Hello friends / Bad salmon illness
06:24 - Vietnam documentaries
07:30 - Thanks about Trifecta album
08:30 - Missing Persons / Terry Bozzio
09:16 - Illness, being okay, and never asking for help
10:05 - Tom Beckovac and Jeff Beck


Notes
Uncle Larry documents one of the worst illnesses he has been through in 57 years on this planet

It’s ok friends don’t worry…I can keep water down and I’m comin around

I TRULY think we need times like this to CLEARLY remind us how much we should be appreciating every single good day that ever goes by


Stuff to watch next time you are totally fucking laid out for 5 days :

The Ken Burns Vietnam Doc (amazing but heavily slanted towards “it was all a huge mistake “)

The Vietnam War In Color (the best true explanation of everything that actually led up to our involvement in the war going back to 20’s Indo-China I have ever seen)

The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir (an UNBELIEVABLE doc about the toughest Americans that have ever lived)

The Family I Had (an amazing doc about some crazy ass shit that happened in Texas)

Abandoned (a movie about ship wreck that looks like it’s gonna be corny as hell but it’s actually amazing)

July 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 660, Tom Bukovac, “Retro Modern”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: New guitar
01:56 - '57 Supra Ozark
03:15 - '40 National New Yorker / Loud single coil
04:04 - Playing: New Yorker
06:05 - '87 Steinberger GM5T


Notes
Uncle Larry’s guitar interests cover a vast amount of terrain, as evidenced by these recent purchases that just arrived at the Homeskoolin’ Research Laboratory Headquarters Warehouse Kitchen Center….all in the same day.

Special thanks to Alan, and the boys at Southside Guitars

Hope you enjoy this little tour friends

July 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Choosin’ Texan”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Vintage / '64 Epiphone Texan


Notes
If any of you guys out there have an extra 7K and you want an FUCKIN KILLER acoustic call this number

615-621-3050

Thanks to Beau and Graham

July 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 659, Tom Bukovac, “The Zinger”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing some 'dead strings'
00:46 - Dead Ringer rubber bridge
02:35 - Movie with kids / Movie: Mystic River
04:20 - Trifecta record
06:52 - '64 Gibson J-50
08:04 - Zinger or jinger guitar pick
10:48 - Jerry McPherson story
13:19 - Terrible injury to finger
16:28 - Rick Beato interview and cry fest
17:24 - Lesson: Coolest chord in the world (Fmadd9/Ab) [4 x 3 0 1 x]
19:00 - Trifecta / Vinyl albums and CD / :|


Notes
Uncle Larry cries at everything

Here’s a link to the new record friends
https://jeddhughes1.bandcamp.com/album/trifecta

June 30th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Oh Larry Boy”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing / "The broken link"
02:19 - Gruhn picks
02:35 - Brutal honesty about the album
04:00 - Morgan Wallen
05:12 - Special thanks for metal bridge


Notes
Here’s a broken link that will start working tmrw
https://jeddhughes1.bandcamp.com/albu...

Please don’t email me and tell me the link isn’t working

My personal favorite song on the record is the last track called “tumbleweed city”

Jordan Perlson guested on the album with the percussion and the full drum kit you hear on a couple songs

Guthrie played guitar, all the mandolin stuff and a lot of the guitar solos

Jedd and I split acoustics

I played all the keys and the bass

We stayed true to our acoustic theme on the album …even the bass you hear was provided by my trusty old harmony h-22 hollow body bass

The keyboards used were a real Rhodes suitcase 73, lots of mellotron and even some Farfisa

MANY different acoustic guitars were used..my old mid 70s guild flamey blonde jumbo 12 made SEVERAL appearances, mostly being wrangled by poor Jedd

When you have an engineer as great as Brandon Bell, the sky is the limit sonically.

It’s almost like cheating working with him…like magic

June 30th, 2026

Uncle Larry’s Random Gear Review Part 2 (EHX POG III)

Chapters
00:00 - New POG pedal


Notes
I’ll upload the right video this time hahaaa

Friends, this is the coolest pedal I have tried in the last couple years, holy shit

June 28th, 2026

Uncle Larry’s Random Gear Review (EHX Deluxe Memory Man & Big Muff)

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends / Electro-Harmonix tryout
01:15 - Clean sound
01:52 - Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
02:36 - Tone control
02:52 - Sustain control
03:23 - Electro-Harmonix Memory Man / Controls / Gain
08:03 - Longest delay you can get / Brightness / Modulation
10:00 - Summary


Notes
Uncle Larry delves into a couple new EHX pedals …the new Big Muff and the new small box Deluxe Memory Man