January 10th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 388, Tom Bukovac, “The Feed Trough & The Egg Basket”

00:00 - Rockin' out to a loop, starting with bass
11:47 - What's up friends / Snow day / Fires
12:54 - Lesson: Circle of fifths & fourths
15:10 - Don't ever put all your eggs in 1 basket / Multiple feed troughs
19:25 - Pet peeve of fired musicians / Trash talking head musician / Networking
25:51 - Lesson: Faster, cleaner chords
27:28 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 double neck / Less than 100 built / Abalone Vintage
Notes
Tom Bukovac heats up the tubes in old narrow panel tweed Deluxe on a snowy day in the not so Deep South….and also recounts the ancient tale of “the basket and the trough” (that’s pronounced “troff” Stringlocker…you know, like one of those things cows eat out of?)
January 9th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Blackbird Studio Repair Kiosk”

00:00 - Blackbird Studios and gear showcase
01:30 - Begin showing gear
Notes
Hello friends, a special treat today
Nick Wood from Blackbird Studio shows us how to keep a major recording studio running
January 8th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 387, Tom Bukovac, “Martin Gibson"

00:00 - Acoustic shootout / Martin
01:28 - Gibson (Electric Light Orchestra / ELO - Telephone Line)
03:40 - Martin vs Gibson
04:06 - Old guitars started with (Crestline SG copy, Aria Tele Custom, 1979 Les Paul Deluxe)
06:54 - Band started out with / Drummer for Barbara Mandrell / Move to Nashville
09:41 - Son seeing the industry from the inside (Blackbird Studio)
10:30 - Thanks for previous video / P90s
11:59 - Bukovac hate week / Lying people on videos / Watching an argument
16:54 - Strong opinions / Thanks for support / Triple in the studio / Blake Shelton
19:10 - Lesson: The claw picking
Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya a quick example of the vast difference between the sound of a Martin acoustic and an old Gibson acoustic …
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January 7th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 386, Tom Bukovac, “Mic It Up”

00:00 - Beautiful sounds from the 90s
08:43 - Hello, friends! / MN Chorus / Talking Scott Baggett / Christmas lights
10:40 - Loading out shows / Bands and being a bass player
12:16 - Phases of guitar players life
13:53 - Tube amps vs modelers / Oxbox
15:27 - Miking an amp / Different kinds of mics
19:37 - Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix
20:20 - Lesson: Demonstration of miking an amp (video)
Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dynamic subtleties and tonal possibilities of a couple 70 year old P90s and gets into some deep talks regarding mic’ing tube amplifiers
the microphone tutorial at the end was made by my dear friend Drew Bollman....engineer to the stars...
thank you my dear man
January 6th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Christmas Gift Review Pt. 1”

00:00 - Battery tester product
Notes
Hello friends, you may be as skeptical as I originally was about an item like this…
but I gotta tell ya….after having it for a couple weeks now, I literally cannot even picture what my life was like before this amazing device came along….
The Battery Daddy by Ontel
It completely won me over and now…
Now I am a believer
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January 6th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 385, Tom Bukovac, “Monday Night Humbuckin'"

00:00 - Hello, friends! / NFL Detroit / Pickups / Updates
Notes
Uncle Larry strings up his dear son’s 100 dollar project guitar that he spent two days painting,
and answers some random VCB from his trusty iPad.
Special thank you to Nick D at Glaser Instruments for helping facilitate a young man’s six string dream...i appreciate it bro
here's that cool website i mentioned for looking up who played on what and searching credits...
https://www.muso.ai/
this was the original site people used to use to search credits before AI
https://www.allmusic.com/
they are both cool
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January 3rd, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 384, Tom Bukovac, “Empress New Clothes”

00:00 - Some crunchy goodness
02:25 - Hello, dear friends! / Morgan Wallen
03:54 - Dan Huff and producing record
05:49 - Empress new drive pedal / Controls / Distortion
07:13 - Gibson Les Paul Goldtop clean into amp
07:35 - Pedal demo
09:12 - Bass to match Lake Placid Blue Strat
11:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Getting excited about music / 1978 Elvis Costello / Bruce Thomas bass
13:47 - Born without tone? / Being able to decifer tone
16:13 - Did you see you have a stalker?
17:48 - Nasty weather
18:37 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop / Outro playing
Notes
This is basically a live recording from 1978…try to imagine being in a band THIS good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s
December 29th, 2024
Homeskoolin Volume 383, Tom Bukovac, “Plastic Cymbals and Status Symbols”

00:00 - Pleasant Prince morning music
03:17 - "...never meant to cause you..." Hello, friends! / NFL and hot picks
04:26 - Little league football
05:09 - Electronic drums
06:44 - '65? Gibson Firebird I (Ember Red)
08:00 - Lesson: Prince - Purple Rain / Add9 / Beatles / Flanger and Chorus
10:05 - Realization about virtues of a '59 Burst
18:20 - Betting
Notes
Uncle Larry reflects about many things on a fine Sunday morning
December 28th, 2024
Uncle Larry’s NFL Rewind ….1966 Edition

00:00 - Topps NFL Cards
03:46 - Spray painting guitar
Notes
Uncle Larry takes you on a tour through a really clean set of 1966 Topps Football.
132 cards of AFL only
Key card is the 2nd year Namath
and also a quick look at the latest project around the house
December 27th, 2024
Homeskoolin’ Volume 382, Tom Bukovac, “Bob Avellini Blues”

00:00 - Playing/Singing: Police / Learning Police
03:05 - Lesson: Police
04:00 - Iconic records
04:51 - Canary in a Coal Mine
05:33 - NFL Bears
07:08 - Biggy Small and dog "fuck off"
07:36 - MN Guitars old CS9 analog chorus pedal / Early 80s
08:48 - "Brian Honey"
08:54 - Sports Bar Blues
10:54 - Cleveland fight back attitude
12:20 - Ancient German saying / Old sayings
13:22 - Painting guitar like Van Halen
15:02 - Lesson: Tune up to pitch, not down
16:35 - Guess what Police songs
17:08 - Teisco guitar / Thank you
Notes
Uncle Larry gets heavy into the Police and some VCB.