October 29th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 727, Tom Bukovac, “The Great Clam Bake”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: TV Yellow Junior
02:54 - Hello, everybody / "Acoustic guitar thing?"
03:44 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Junior / Tuning and Studfinder Bridge
05:21 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Who am I working for?"
05:45 - "Have you almost quit the music business?" / Vince Gill answer / Starting guitar
09:36 - "Biggest clam on stage?" / Loretta Lynn story
12:30 - "Worst clam ever saw?" / Bryan Adams story
14:51 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '65 Gibson ES-330


Notes
Uncle Larry gets into some VCB and offers a beautiful old 65 ES-330 for sale for an extremely fair price

October 28th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Boy’s Got Good Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Music City Vintage / Fender Telecaster
00:50 - '56 Gibson Melody Maker
01:05 - '56 Gibson ES-335
01:53 - Fender Esquire Telecaster
02:55 - '65 Fender Stratocaster
04:12 - '59 Gibson Les Paul Junior TV Yellow



Notes
Uncle Larry does a quick check up of today’s inventory at Music City Vintage guitars in Nashville TN

young Ben Sparaco shows us around a little…the boy’s got good hands ya’ know…

Special thanks to Evan and Gerald for helping me out with the old 59 TV Junior today

October 27th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 726, Tom Bukovac, “Puff The Magic Sundragon”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Doubleneck through Sundragon Super Dragon 100
06:00 - Hello, friends
07:26 - Sundragon Super Dragon
09:26 - Trace Adkins
10:00 - Gibson doubleneck
10:28 - Lesson: Sound like Joe Walsh on 12 string [x 0 7 6 5 0] -> [x 0 9 7 7 0]
12:19 - Lesson: Lick on the other part


Notes
Uncle Larry plays a little rock and roll for the class after getting home from a long day of sessioneering.

Today’s amp of choice is a fantastic handmade limited edition Sundragon Super Dragon 100 head through an old basketweave Marshall 4x12 slant cabinet (with a custom partially open back panel that absolutely RULES)

This amp was designed by Mitch Colby and Jimmy Page, and it was kindly gifted to me a while back by my friends Dirk Ziff and Perry Margouleff… and I thank them very much for that…..what a cool fuckin amp.

Had an absolute blast today on a Trace Adkins session at Oceanway Studio in Nashville TN…it was so nice to see my dear old friends

Scott Hendricks: producer
Jeff Balding: engineer
Tony Lucido : bass
Nir Z: drums
Gordon Mote: keys
Troy Lancaster: electric guitar
Bryan Sutton: acoustic guitar
Lance: tape op

Also, if you want one of these t shirts, and some other cool comfy designs of Homeskoolin’ merch, visit www.humbuckermerch.com

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

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@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…