February 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Dot Neck Believer Fever”

Chapters
00:00 - '59 Gibson ES-335
03:39 - Playing
06:38 - Brdige clean
07:01 - Middle clean
07:48 - Volume of PAFs


Notes
Since he was a young man, Uncle Larry has always been one to trade several realllllllllly great guitars for one total showstopper….and this is one of those times…

a no excuses 59 dotneck has been on my bucket list for a good while now. …

This one will do the trick

February 23rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 401, Tom Bukovac, “Up With Antigua”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / Fender Stratocaster Antigua
03:30 - Playing acoustically
03:53 - Being sick
06:33 - Movie called "Boyhood"
13:55 - Ethan Hawk
24:42 - Van Zant Brothers gigs


Notes
Gather around and behold perhaps the only man on earth that doesn’t hate the Antigua finish from Fender’s darkest years…

February 22nd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam/Garage Sale

Chapters
00:00 - Sweet ole Country?
04:16 - Hello, friends! / Christmas song / Schools closing
05:30 - Thank yous
06:23 - Gretsch 6120 White Falcon for sale (Uncle Larry's Garage Sale)


Notes
Hope you all enjoy the tones of this tasty old 62 first year double cut white falcon

Email Tombukovac@gmail.com

February 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin PSA…”Subscription Course Is Coming!!”

Chapters
00:00 - Uplifting musical beauty oozing out into Blues
06:37 - What's up, friends! / Subscription service


Notes
Brett Papa and I have been BUSTING OUR FUCKING ASSES trying to put together the most kick ass comprehensive lesson course you can ever imagine
It’s gonna be done by the end of April kids….licks and concepts than any man could ever shake a stick at

I am VERY excited that the end zone is in plain sight.

February 20th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Blooze On A Bird” (Lossless….Headless)

Chapters
00:00 - Continued bonus material


Notes
A family style serving of the swirling overtones and dangerous midrange that the Gibson Firebird model has been delivering to the world of rock and roll since mid 1963, brought to you by your Uncle Larry

February 19th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 400, Tom Bukovac “Super 400”

Chapters
00:00 - Bonus material


Notes
After a nearly two week recuperation from the Chicago bio lab flu, Larry is back on the fretboard

Ain’t nothin like a slab of Brazilian on a snow day friends.

February 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 399, Tom Bukovac, “Signs Of Life”

Chapters
00:00 - Somber playing
03:12 - What's up, friends! / Bad sickness
04:19 - Watched every history documentary (Dust Bowl, Vietnam)
07:04 - Bending in tune
08:24 - Bending in 440 Hz and muscle memory
09:40 - Lesson: Locking the bend
10:38 - Lesson: Shake off the bend
14:04 - '60 Tele Custom wiring converted to modern


Notes
Uncle Larry’s first moments of feeling human again after being all beat to hell from a three day bout of some kind of virus…classic “road sickness” that tried like hell to stop me from ever making it to “episode 400”

Whatever it was, it felt like Covid but I tested negative ….body aches, low grade fever, cough etc

Anyway, after watching every history documentary on PBS over the last three days, something that I already knew became even clearer to me…

there has never been a time in human history where a typical person has it any easier than they do right now…..

You guys have heard me talk about this before….as much as I absolutely romanticize the past and often live in a self made world of beautiful nostalgia…i CLEARLY understand that we are VERY VERY lucky to be here now, at this point in history….

all I’m saying here friends is this…enjoy every moment, every second….because there were sooooo many generations before us that had to STRUGGLE with aspects of life that not only do we take for granted, we don’t even THINK about

Things are so easy for us now that we spend the energy that generations before us had to spend fighting for survival tearing each other apart….and this extends all the way from criticizing and judging cultures thousands of miles away from us, to husbands and wives tearing each other apart because they can’t “get what they need” out of the relationship

If you ever start feeling that your life is shit, there’s so much stuff out there on your very own streaming service that puts everything you could ever want to watch at your fingertips that can give you PLENTY of perspective…park your ass in your favorite recliner sometime and watch the “Dust Bowl” documentary by Ken Burns and then tell me how shitty your life is

February 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Little Red Snapper”

Chapters
00:00 - Light strumming Beatles-esque tunes
03:21 - What's up friends / Thank you for Chicago show
07:03 - Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice (Skaggs & Rice)


Notes
Uncle Larry back to work after a whirlwind trip up to the great City Of Wind…great sounding room and two nights of the most amazing crowd I have ever performed in front of

Thank YOU Chicago!!

Thank you to my dear friends and band mates…there are no words to express the respect I have for you all

If you have never heard this recording, you are welcome
https://www.google.com/search?q=skaggs+and+rice&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#ebo=0

February 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “9 Volt Blues”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' on a small amp...no gear needed


Notes
and a one…and a two…and a one, two, three, four..

February 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Fill Up On Pump 942 Please”

Chapters
00:00 - Visiting a huge gas station


Notes
A merry band of hillbillies with instruments traverse the Land Of Plenty in search of good food, good music and clean bathrooms.