January 17th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 392, Tom Bukovac, “Burst Believer Fever”

00:00 - Hello, friends (creepy version) / Running out of gas
03:00 - Teaching the song "Signs"
04:25 - Mailbox Burst / History of the Burst
13:00 - Alex Harvey Band - Faith Healer
13:57 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Thanks for videos
14:58 - Homeskoolin' family
15:55 - Lady Madonna improve
16:20 - Alfred Hitchcock intro
17:30 - Losing weight / Richard Simmons
18:55 - Hockey
19:20 - Jeff Beck mods
20:19 - Tom Bukovac vs Charlie Davidson vs Devin Falco
22:20 - Gibson Burst
28:33 - Playing
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Uncle Larry restrings 8 6785 (Jenny Jenny…who can I turn to?) whilst slaving over a hot slab of recent VCB after a long day at the session mill.
here is a fascinating video you have probably already seen...but if you haven't, you're welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwQPwfZvlY
January 17th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 391, Tom Bukovac, “Cable TV Special”

00:00 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special / No refret restring
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Uncle Larry prepares for another day at the mill and waxes rhapsodic about the early days of television.
January 16th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 390, Tom Bukovac, “Hello...1983 Calling….”

00:00 - Hello, friends (creepy version)
00:53 - '83 Gibson Les Paul Studio with D'Addario 43-10
01:35 - Gibson serial number year
02:55 - Top wrap and break angle / Tim Shaw pickups
05:10 - Winder
06:30 - Selling house
25:00 - Playing
28:35 - Gibson SG comparison
31:00 - Gibson LP Studio playing and lowering pickups / Low end shaved off
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Uncle Larry undresses a 1983 Les Paul Studio on national television.
The Guthrie/Jedd/Uncle Larry Guitar Party is coming to Chicago in early February...
Two nights At The Martyr's Club
Feb 7&8, that's a Friday And Saturday friends
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January 14th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 389, Tom Bukovac, “The 101 Club”

00:00 - Looping with brethren instruments
09:31 - Hello, friends! / Blake Shelton
12:26 - Don't feel like talking / Lake Placid Blue Fender Stratocaster & matching Fender Precision Bass
15:19 - 5 way switch, position 2 and 4 are too dark / Forgotten sound
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Uncle Larry REALLY felt like playing some guitar (and bass) tonite after getting home from day two of tracking with dearest Blake Shelton at the legendary Blackbird Studios in downtown Nashville TN.
Blakes new album is finally “in the can” after the last three years of working on it.
Loving these two old instruments that are featured in this little poorly lit video….(replete with the phone falling right off the “camera stand” in the heat of battle) and thought you guys might enjoy seeing them together.
They have known each other in a past life….
These two rosewood board sex kittens were built right on the cusp of when the original Fender factory in Fullerton was taken over by the CBS bean counters…both instruments are very close in serial number…and they both have aged to the EXACT same greenish hue from their original Lake Placid Blue .
If anyone out there has the Telecaster to compete the set I’m all ears
Thanks for watching friends.
oh, and if you guys want to learn about "advanced phrasing techniques" check out this fella....
i've been told it's VERY deep stuff, but i don't quite understand it yet....maybe some of you guys can help me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWdUDiGhSv0
January 14th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Lunch Talk”

00:00 - Picking Gordon Mote's brain
Notes
Starring Gordon Mote and Bryan Sutton…this is what happens when a couple guys get done eating earlier than the rest of the people on the session ….musicians get bored so easily.
Thanks for watching my dear friends
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January 11th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Bonus “One More For The Dokta”

00:00 - Playing away / Hello friends! / Remembering a friend
Notes
Today marks the 3 year of the passing of one Richard Alan Reith from Mentor Ohio
We knew him by the nickname “The Doctor”…which inevitably got morphed into “The Dokta”….but to some, he was “Uncle Rick”
Rest in peace my brother
here he is playing my old p bass 9 years ago
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January 10th, 2025
The Guitar Case…..A Brief History

00:00 - Snowing in Nashville
00:40 - '63 Fender Jazz Bass / Case
02:54 - Earliest Fender case owned
03:46 - '60's Fender cases ('60, '63, '64)
05:22 - Gibson cases (Les Paul)
05:45 - Gibson archtop cases ("California case")
06:56 - Gibson SG cases
07:33 - '62 Gibson SG case
07:55 - Early 60's Gibson / ES-335
08:30 - '70s Gibson cases / Doubleneck case
09:28 - Gretsch case '60s
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Hello friends …Uncle Larry might be snowed in, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make a little video that shines a little light on the most criminally overlooked part of the whole wide world of vintage guitars ….the guitar case.
Uncle Larry takes you through several decades of these often forgotten and highly under-appreciated vessels that kept all the guitars of yesterday in one piece.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn, you’ll complain…but mostly, you will REMEMBER.
Ladies and gentlemen…I bring you…episode one of the critically acclaimed one part one season docu-drama…”The Guitar Case”
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
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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
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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
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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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