May 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ “A Complete Guide To Overdrive Pedals That Actually Work”

Chapters
00:00 - Shredding
03:28 - Howya doing?
03:49 - Harmonic Minor
04:40 - Shortcomings of the Kramer
06:55 - What makes a pedal sound like a pedal
14:08 - Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive, Blues Driver, etc.
15:47 - Boss EQ-10
18:16 - Gruhn's shopping and finding a bass
18:53 - Fender Precision Bass
19:13 - "Rare"
19:52 - Jazz bass vs Precision
21:16 - Hellcat


Notes
Uncle Larry demonstrates how he won the Cleveland Ohio "Guitar Wars Contest" in 1987...
and dips his foot in the water of talking about gear…at the risk of pissing off all the tube screamer and klon lovers

May 13th, 2025

Homeskoolin' Volume 446, Tom Bukovac, "Wild 700 Horses"

Chapters
00:00 - Playing Special
01:30 - Just Larry / Real Tube and MXR Sugar Drive
02:25 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Special through Princeton Reverb
02:50 - Real Tube pedal
04:58 - Nobels ODR-1
05:37 - MXR Sugar Drive
08:42 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Let everything go
09:40 - Good sound from Nobels with Les Paul comment
10:32 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
12:27 - Touring to bus level / Doing your own thing vs sideman
14:50 - Stalker Guy channel tanking
15:24 - Hellcat


Notes
Why do we still use horses as a unit of engine power measurement anyway?
Is it to further belittle the horse?

May 12th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 445, Tom Bukovac, “New Frontier”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:57 - In tune D chord
02:14 - Hello, friends!
02:50 - '64 Epiphone Frontier
03:33 - '64 Gibson J
05:11 - Dean Cadillac
05:49 - Dean bridge
07:11 - Dean neck
08:50 - Nut and shimming and intonation


Notes
Uncle Larry learns ya some stuff about guitars

May 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 444, Tom Bukovac, “Caddy Shack”

Chapters
00:00 - Dean Cadillac string change
10:15 - MXR Sugar Drive / Real Tube
12:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat / Stolen measures


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about road life and shows you a VERY rare guitar

May 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Abandoned Kitchenette”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
06:53 - Hotel rooms?


Notes
Uncle Larry with a road update from Reading PA with a broken bridge guitar

Love can build a bridge

This episode is dedicated to my dear old pal J.O….fellow lover of fast cars and freedom

May 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 443, Tom Bukovac, “John Wilkes Barre”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
02:50 - Wilkes Barre, PA / Early days in Rust Belt
04:20 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo
06:16 - Jedd Hughes / Vince Gill update
07:19 - '48 Gibson Southern Jumbo / Bad D string
08:55 - '85 Kramer Beretta with Floyd Rose "E" Series
11:33 - Setting up for the concert
11:55 - Wandre Roby guitar
14:38 - LiquiSlide


Notes
The first of many summer updates from the road…
that will inevitably depict a completely over the top blood soaked epic orgy of guitar purchases over the next couple months that can potentially be of some use to you fellow Homeskoolers…

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 4-4-2, Tom Bukovac, “Supercharged”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes concert gig
01:43 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
02:57 - Playing
05:14 - "Hello...?" pickup
06:55 - Chord just fell out
07:16 - John Fogerty tour with Tina Turner
08:29 - John never warms up voice - "I just trust it"
09:00 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
10:00 - '68 Fender Telecaster
11:10 - Microphonic pickups / Wax potting
13:33 - Lesson: Roy Nichols turnaround
15:44 - Trivia Question: No mudcap tele.  1st year Fender went to modern wiring?


Notes
Uncle Larry provides the standard fare of riffs you can pirate and not give me credit for.

Eddie Dunlap on that weird table guitar contraption

May 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 441, Tom Bukovac, “Joggers In The Fog”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
03:45 - Hello, friends
04:52 - Morning check-in / VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
06:00 - Diane Warren song (Taylor Dayne)
08:37 - Lesson: Playing
10:10 - Vince Gill / Playing songs like an apple
12:42 - Durango Hellcat
13:27 - Tinnitus?
14:15 - Parent a grown ass man
15:22 - Playing


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB before shuffling off to the mill.

May 5th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 440, Tom Bukovac, “The 5th Of May”

Chapters
00:00 - One of those great tangents
08:29 - Hi friends / Fender Vibro Champ Reverb
11:11 - EVO SRO (Electro-Voice)
12:00 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Bought a Hellcat Durango
12:57 - Liqui Slide
13:15 - Strymon Timeline
14:16 - Boss SDE-3000
14:45 - Hotel rooms and Dodge Durango Hellcat color (Destroyer Gray)
15:38 - The Essential Craftsman (YouTube channel)
17:42 - Play with humor and grace / Like a little bit of mess
19:00 - Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Happy birthday Bub!

if you guys like rock and roll, you can always throw something in the tip jar
my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
my venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

and totally unrelated...how crazy is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9u5xUFEDQQ

May 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”

Chapters
00:00 - One Hour Photo loop with slide over it
02:54 - Ungraceful dismount
04:40 - Slide
11:44 - Checking in / Solo over the depressing loop / Vince Gill rehearsals
14:30 - Pedalboard used to use with Ann Wilson
14:52 - Loathe the Strymon Timeline
15:40 - Nashville Guitar Center and meeting a fan in public
17:25 - Lesson: Looking to play some Swang
19:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll take you home" lick
20:26 - Lesson: Goofing around lick
21:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll accompany you back to your hotel" picking all 5 fingers lick (F13 [1 x 1 2 3 1])
22:25 - Lesson: Pull off in F is even cooler


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some depressing slide and then gets into some nasty western swing licks you can teach your grand kids some day

…and totally unrelated, this is sooo my new favorite YouTube channel....i fuckin' LOVE this guy

he's a total bad ass master craftsman with a zillion subscribers on YouTube...
i'm not even a builder and i have already learned so much from watching his stuff.
on a more sentimental note, i chose this video of his to show you first because i love the reverence he has for the great people that built this amazing country

this shit is right up my alley friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMOxBm7NsU