October 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 725, Tom Bukovac, “Bone Yard”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Acoustic
02:35 - Hello, friends
03:29 - "What does the acronym VCB stand for?" / (Viewer Comment Bin) / NFL
06:43 - Extremely loyal followers
08:25 - Cheap people
10:00 - "Make sure you generous to deserved people"
12:34 - Matt Swanson (Dumble Amplifiers) story
13:43 - Book about Martin guitars
15:23 - Lesson: Cool chords (A13) [x 0 4 0 2 2] / (Em9) [0 1 1 0 3 2]
17:27 - Blake Shelton? / Boys slang


Notes
Uncle Larry dips a toe into some shallow VCB before an honest day’s work

October 26th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 724, Tom Bukovac, “The Forgiving Years”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Gibson SG
02:20 - "Tune Down, Tune Out"
03:21 - Hello, friends! / Beautiful outside
04:15 - Lesson: Beatles - Hard Days Night chord
04:24 - Ibanez Flanger FL-305 / Eagles - Hotel California solo
05:54 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / NFL / Playing
06:51 - "He only knows 1 fast lick" / Non-guitar player looking at a guitar
08:31 - Guthrie hang / Favorite guitar (Gibson Firebird)
10:29 - "Straight into the amp" / "Howya going to get this sound?"
12:26 - Gary Moore and Rory Gallagher viciously defended
16:19 - Jizzboy vs. Gus / Subcategory guys / Stringlocker
18:13 - "Least favorite human trait?" / Being cheap
23:09 - Electro Harmonix pedals
26:08 - Kitrae Big Muff Pi History site (http://www.kitrae.net/music/music_big_muff.html) / J Mascus (Dinosaur Jr.)


Notes
Uncle Larry attacks a large swath of VCB, and gets into great detail discussing the difference between “frugal” and “cheap”

October 25th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Finally…A Guy Who Can Fix Cool Old Broken Pedals"

Chapters
00:00 - Yann (Body and Soul)
01:57 - Electro Harmonix (EHX) - Electric Mistress
04:27 - EHX power switch / Electro Harmonix (EHX) - Big Muff Pi


Notes
You’re not gonna believe this friends, I actually found a guy who can fix cool old broken pedals ….his name is Yann Ly, he’s a super cool dude, and he has already saved my ass a couple times.

He has his own company called Body And Soul that makes cool big muffs and Marshall Supa-Fuzz recreations …

He said it’s cool if i give you guys his Instagram, but he told me upfront he only wants to work on cool old stuff…please don’t ask him to fix your Behringer headphone amp...that part is IMPERATIVE

Here’s his Instacart :
/ bsinstruments

Here’s his email friends
Jesuisyann@gmail.com

if you guys like that t shirt i was wearing in yesterday's progrum, check out this website
www.humbuckermerch.com

some dead cool British shit on there for yo' ass

also....if your life is being improved by these videos, please consider visiting the class tip jar.
Uncle Larry has Paypal....
tombukovac‪@gmail.com‬

AND Uncle Larry has Venmo...
@Tom-Bukovac-1

EVERY little bit helps and encourages Uncle Larry to keep providing this service.

October 24th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Should We Plug Straight In To The Amp?”

Chapters
00:00 - To pedal or not to pedal?
02:35 - Test setup
03:30 - Part A
04:09 - Part B
04:49 - Part C
05:24 - Part D


Notes
Contrary to public opinion, for many many years, Uncle Larry has been saying that as long as you use the RIGHT pedals, there is almost zero difference between going through a large system of modern pedals in bypass mode and plugging the guitar straight in to the amp .

In this heavily produced and carefully edited four part video I will show four examples….A B C and D.

On two of these four examples I am plugged straight into the amp, and on the other two of them are going through a million pedals in bypass made and about 50 extra feet of high impedance cable.

Can you tell the difference?

and if there IS a difference , please note that I could engage any one of these pedal and get it right back in two seconds …and then have a million cool sounds at my disposal

October 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 723, Tom Bukovac, “Tube Amps Are Dead…..Not”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Strumming the Gibson and Martin
02:00 - Howya doing out there? / NFL
04:21 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Love doing nothing
04:57 - "Ever retire?" / Sliding
05:58 - Larry Bird was a badd ass
06:20 - "That was cool [lick]"
07:07 - Stringlocker / Homeskoolin' Bay
08:00 - Gibson J-35 / V-neck
10:36 - "Total dick comment" / Learning without YouTube
16:27 - Joe Bonamassa modeling amp / Buy an old Fender Deluxe Reverb
18:57 - "Tund Down, Tune Out"


Notes
Uncle Larry Bird plays the same riff on two different 30’s flat tops built by fairly well known manufacturers…and gets into some heavy VCB….

October 22nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 722, Tom Bukovac, “Slabs And Banners”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Acoustic
02:26 - Hi, friends / Lesson:Dmaj7 [0 0 4 6 7 5] NFL
03:47 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / More playing and less talking / Old men eat breakfast together
06:30 - "What pick Larry?" / Strings
07:10 - Larry Bird (basketball player) stories
09:20 - Producers are looking for the musicians to play amazing on their own
11:30 - '43 Gibson Banner Head J-45
12:40 - "Where's StringLocker!?"
13:22 - "Princeton Reverb with a 12?"
14:16 - Wood resonating and staying in tune / Wood and actual sound of guitar :|
16:32 - "Scarves and volume swells" / The Guitarist Way: "Play what you like and bash everyone else"
18:10 - '60 Fender Precision Bass


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some poignant VCB and shows the class some wartime wood p**sy, from
the glory days of Kalamazoo and some early Fullerton slab board madness…

October 21st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Clevelandia”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Some amazing acrobatics on the fretboard

Notes
Uncle Larry runs through an entire library of chord shapes guitars players instinctively avoid ….because hardly any guitars are intonated well enough to actually get away with any of these…

October 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Firestripe Theatre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Gibson acoustic


Notes
Never judge a book by its cover friends …sometimes the ugliest wallflowers are the ones that end up giving ya a hand job in the stationery closet…

Most sane people would walk right by this old 41 J-35 if they saw it somewhere…but it’s got the magic in it

October 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Telescopic End Pin”

Chapters
00:00 - Badd ass bass from early 50's
01:00 - "Crazy ass pickup"
01:28 - Brown knobs
02:25 - "i" on the Gibson
03:10 - Discussion


Notes
Greg Voros and Tony Nagy from Gruhn Guitars show the class a really cool and rare old bass…the Gibson EB-1…introduced in 1953 and designed to be able to be held upright and played like a stand up bass with the use of it’s revolutionary telescopic end pin.

I did a little googlin' after we made this video and it turns out I was correct about this being Gibson’s direct answer to the Precision bass that was introduced two years earlier…which was the first fretted electric bass ever made (thus the name “precision” bass)
See friends, Uncle Larry doesn’t ALWAYS talk out his ass.
There were just over 500 of these made in its initial run from 53 to 58.

Here's what the google said about this cool instrument from the era when the greatest guitar company in the history of mankind was simply pissing greatness.

"The first production fretted electric bass built by Gibson was the Gibson EB-1, originally introduced in 1953 (initially called simply the "Electric Bass" before being renamed the EB-1 in 1958).

Key Details of the Gibson EB-1
• Release Year: 1953 (designed as Gibson's direct answer to Fender's 1951 Precision Bass).
• Body Style: Solid mahogany shaped like a miniature violin or upright double bass, complete with painted "fake" f-holes and pinstriping.
• Scale Length: Short-scale 30.5 inches.
• Neck & Fretboard: Set mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard featuring frets and dot inlays.
• Special Feature: Included a retractable endpin so musicians could play it upright like an acoustic double bass or horizontally like a standard guitar.
• Pickup: A single neck-position sidewinder/single-coil pickup designed by Walter Fuller and Seth Lover.
• Production: Only 105 units were made during its initial launch year in 1953."

October 20th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Diamond Head”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fingerpicking loop


Notes
Some heavily altered blooze for the late night crowd

Heavy meddle

Hope you enjoy friends