January 18th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Whipping Wind Blues 2024 Style”

Chapters
00:00 - Snowing / Ronco microphone commercial / Playing some raunch



Notes
Uncle Larry takes one of his old compositions down a dark dirty road…with a guitar that has a nazzzzzzty little built in amp ….

Someone recently asked what kind of mic I use to record all this shit…those who REALLY know the inside story of Homeskoolin know that it’s always been a Mr. Microphone by Ronco all along.

Marshall and I are very proud of the football field we built out of Home Depot lumber…he did all the numbers on the field free hand

Dad used his prodigious math skills to get the hash marks measured out perfectly

January 18th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “College Boy”

Chapters
00:00 - Squeezing the mojo out of the SG


Notes
An old 68 Uncle Larry, an old 62 SG, a cord, and an old 65 Princeton Reverb he got from his main man Bubba…

Sure Larry has owned about as many old Fender Princetons Reverbs in his life as he has Fender Medium picks…but this little amp is special…the best sounding one,and of course it came from the Bub.

Larry doesn’t get attached to much, but he would be VERY sad if the old original Jensen speaker in this amp ever blew up…in fact he would rather have a beer with that asshole Teddy Boy than to ever go through the pain of that…

January 17th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 270, Tom Bukovac “See Tommy Play”

Chapters
00:00 - Bellowing the acoustic
04:55 - Hello, friends! / Starstruck Studio (Reba McIntyre)
06:30 - Norm Snead
07:30 - Thanks / Tele jam
08:05 - Stream of consciousness / Natural flow
10:35 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin)
11:09 - Lesson: Cool, odd picking lick
13:36 - Bukowski poem
13:50 - Great singers and Irsay gig singing
14:40 - Homeskoolin' learning / Guthrie record
16:11 - In the studio


Notes
RIP Norm Snead

January 16th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Fretted America”

Chapters
00:00 - Rippin' it on a Tele


Notes
there is always that space there
just before they get to us
that space
that fine relaxer
the breather
while say
flopping on a bed
thinking of nothing
or say
pouring a glass of water from the
spigot
while entranced by
nothing

that
gentle pure
space

it's worth

centuries of
existence

say

just to scratch your neck
while looking out the window at
a bare branch

that space
there
before they get to us
ensures
that
when they do
they won't
get it all

ever.

January 16th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 269, Tom Bukovac, “Got My Mojo On Temporary Hiatus”

Chapters
00:00 - Plucking Beatles and jamming on a tele
04:53 - Intro / Snow day
05:45 - Jim Irsay gig / Comfortably Numb / Stephen Stills
07:54 - Cigarette tuner / T-shirt / NFL
09:03 - '66 Tele & Goldtop / Sex appeal
10:53 - Strings brand (DR Pure Blues)
12:20 - Doors - People Are Strange
13:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Collectables / Topps cards / Beer cans
15:18 - Modeling amps / Deluxe / Princetons
16:10 - Best arm in the NFL?
17:18 - Playing with Billy Gibbons
17:52 - Selling guitar for son / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale


Notes
Uncle Larry covers a ton of snowy frozen ground in today’s episode...

the week in recap....plus a few attempts at quelling the insatiable needs of the VCB...
and a little neck squeezin' on 6 pound maple cap transition logo tele.

so we have a lot of new viewers recently ...and dearest Rick Beato told me that the video we made together a while back should be coming out very shortly, so i'm imagining there will probably be a few new arrivals from that world...

here's the real inside shit folks...i NEVER ask anyone to subscribe or "smash that like button"....

if you do indeed learn a lot of stuff from this channel and feel like it is indeed helping you as a player, all i ask is that you just throw a little something in the tip jar...

i'm not gonna lie people, it helps pay for beer, food for me and the boys, bills, and old guitars...that is truly all i use it for....oh, and maybe the occasional football bet...

where is this tip jar you say???

You can make PayPal donations to this address:
tombukovac@gmail.com
You can make Venmo donations to this address:
@Tom-Bukovac-1

AND THERE'S MERCH TOO!!!!

a person could potentially purchase a myriad of Homeskoolin' related merch..including several different extremely comfortable and nice feeling T-shirts and some beautifully constructed coffee mugs for those afflicted with thin lips...i pride myself on having the comfiest t shirts on earth...no scratchy bad fitting horseshit here people.. check it out at
https://dvg-inc.shoplightspeed.com/merch/tom-bukovac/ 

AND....believe it or not....i have a new website people....an actual proper website.
https://thesessionman.com

You can see all kinds of weird old photos there, you can also purchase a download of the live concert i did last December if you like.

A lot of these very same new viewers don't seem to know that Uncle Larry made a couple records that they could potentially listen to...

one is an instrumental solo record called "Plexi Soul" that is available here:
https://tombukovac.bandcamp.com/album/plexi-soul 

another is an instrumental collaboration with his dear friend Dean Deleo (originally from the Stone Temple Pilots organization) that is available here:
https://tripthewitch.bandcamp.com/album/trip-the-witch

January 11th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “East Westerly”

Chapters
00:00 - Nice guitar playing


Notes
Uncle Larry goes down to the crossroads to make a deal

January 11th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Rehearsal…(With Lasers)”

Chapters
00:00 - Amazing guitar from Kenny Wayne Shepherd during rehearsal


Notes
I don’t know about you guys, but I personally don’t think any rehearsal is worth a damn unless there are lasers…..oh, and you think YOU play loud?

starring:
KWS
Mike Mills
Ebo
Mikey Wanchic
Michael Ramos
Danny Nucci
Kenny Aronoff
The singer chicks

Remember that movie where the soccer team crashed a plane in the arctic and they had to eat each other to survive? It was called “Alive”

Yeah, Danny Nucci was in that…as well as a little movie you mighta heard of called “Titanic”

Cool guy, but I can bench more than him

And most importantly, happy birthday Richard Reith…it’s been two years and we still think about you every day

January 10th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Midwestern Beat”

Chapters
00:00 - The notes say it all


Notes
The sweetest and most organized guy in all of rock, my dear boy Kenny Aronoff…

January 9th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “A Nice Fit For A Fool”

Chapters
00:00 - Close look at Eric Clapton's old guitar, The Fool


Notes
Uncle Larry having a little fun with the lads on his way out to a gig in LA.
Starring
Sweet Riley the flight attendant
Jeffrey Gorman, the Voice Of The Colts
Kenny Wayne
Camera work by Mikey Wanchic

January 8th, 2024

Homeskoolin' Volume 268, Tom Bukovac, "Panties Applied For"

Chapters
00:00 - Homemade Evel Knievel stunt
00:45 - Plucking that Goldtop
03:27 - Episode 268 and Homeskoolin' Inc. / Hardest thing about playing guitar (bending content)
05:00 - Cookin' with Larry thanks / Taking things too literally / Nick Gordo shame
06:20 - Heavy double-stop tangent into Marilyn Manson
06:56 - Cleveland into the playoffs
07:23 - Working with Steely Dan's Michael Omartian (Omar)
08:19 - Comparison of PAFs
09:27 - Burst PAF (Bridge)
10:42 - Goldtop PAF (Bridge)
11:45 - ES-335 PAF (Bridge)
12:54 - Burst PAF (Bridge)
13:20 - Goldtop PAF (Bridge)
13:48 - Goldtop PAF (neck)
14:54 - Burst PAF (neck)
15:47 - ES-335 PAF (neck)
16:33 - Goldtop PAF (neck)
18:11 - Burst PAF (Bridge)
18:47 - ES-335 PAF (Bridge)


Notes
Uncle Larry lines up a couple PAF equipped suspects in a tone identification interrogation...

a 57 Les Paul Standard, a 58 Les Paul Standard and a 63 es-335

We all know that it's impossible to REALLY hear anything in this iPhone mic'ed scenario, but let's just act like we can hear, and play along for fun.

Which one ya like best?