July 31st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “Who’s On Burst?”

Chapters
00:00 - 3 of the finest guitars on planet Earth.
01:14 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup
02:10 - Option B - Neck pickup
03:07 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup
03:57 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Neck pickup 2
04:42 - Option B (1959) - Neck pickup 2 (Lightest one in weight)
05:29 - Option C (1958) - Neck pickup 2
06:06 - Option C (1958) - Bridge pickup / B-string D note
07:22 - Option B (1959) - Bridge pickup
08:22 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
09:10 - "This shit makes me nervous" - Jedd Hughes / Second time around - Bridge pickups
09:52 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
10:46 - Option ? - Bridge pickup
11:25 - Neck shapes? / Bridge pickup
12:23 - Vince Gill's 1959 Les Paul - Bridge pickup
13:13 - Conclusion


Notes
Killin time at rehearsal with some golden age Kalamazoo…talent by Jedd Hughes

Lets hear your thoughts on favorite neck pickup and favorite bridge pickup…cuz we sure as hell can’t say

July 30th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Short, “Office Space”

Chapters
00:00 - Behind the scenes at Vince Gill gig


Notes
Uncle Larry’s cubicle

July 29th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 328, Tom Bukovac, “Old Dog New Guts”

Chapters
00:00 - Some wizardry coming out them speakers
02:50 - Damn noisy go carts! / Hi friends! Lawrence
03:52 - Vince Gill and the Ryman and many, many musicians
06:40 - Party host / Contentment with the new house
08:57 - Restringing instruments
09:44 - '62 Gibson SG with Gretsch amp
10:43 - The Gear Page / "pottytrain" / Comments on video channels and handling it
13:05 - Learning a lot from people in Commentland / Grown ups / Teddy Boy / Stringlocker
14:53 - Good band when looking forward to going / 6th Sense


Notes
Uncle Larry gets perhaps a little TOO sexy with all his alternate flat picked quintuplets at 230 beats per minute….

…and have I told you lately that I FUCKING LOVE D’Addario strings?

i swear people, i am not just saying this because they were kind enough to endorse me…I was buying D’Addario strings with my hard earned cash long BEFORE they endorsed me ….

why??

because in the end when all the dust settles, they are the ONLY strings out there that matter

July 26th, 2024

Homeskoolin' Volume 327, Tom Bukovac, "Viewer Poll Results"

Chapters
00:00 - Giddy up! / What's up, friends! / Dave Cohen & Elle King / Overdubs
02:05 - Vinyl records update / Thank you's!
03:15 - "Junk Food" and The Gear Page results / British cunt
04:05 - Lesson: Chords
08:14 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / New channel room versus kitchen / Yuengling oldest beer in America
09:14 - Calm speaking voice (Bob Ross)
09:47 - '63 Gibson SJ with ceramic "plastic" bridge
12:00 - AC30 Trapezoidal head / Silverdog speakers
12:37 - Being in a cover band & Van Halen / Douche
14:57 - Signing records & Vince Gill rehearsals


Notes
Uncle Larry answers some VCB and shows the Homeskoolers the chords to his last video “Junk Food Larry”…

and….

THE VINYL IS HERE!!!!

They showed up at Baked Alaska Distribution headquarters this afternoon friends..

oh, and the viewer poll results are officially in regarding our friend Sean from the Gearpage…

July 25th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 326, Tom Bukovac, “Junk Food Larry"

Chapters
00:00 - Nice calming vibrations
02:56 - What's up, friends! / Intro / Nashville guitar day / Fretboard Journal call
04:56 - "Insufferable" Larry in the studio / Visions
05:55 - Guthrie Trapp & Tom Bukovac - In Stereo vinyl final product
06:42 - Gruhn's, Guitar Magazine, Eric "Ebo" Borash
08:09 - Album thanks
08:28 - The Gear Page guy equates videos to "junk food"
09:57 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Cast of characters
12:21 - Les Paul measuring tool for the safe
12:34 - "Need to see curled lip"
13:05 - Guthrie Trapp New York trip and gigs in November
14:30 - Joe's Shanghai, Blue Ribbon Sushi / Drinking beer from glass
15:00 - "Guitar players mostly playing for other guitar players?"
16:12 - Musicians that constantly use the volume and tone / Nuances in tone
17:58 - Compression (compressor / 1176) / Darkening the tone
18:45 - Football season
19:23 - Sessionman get paid? / Never ask someone about finances / Unspoken bro code
20:33 -'57 Les Paul Gibson getting refretted at Gruhn's


Notes
Uncle Larry strums a little tune for ya' on a chunky old Gibson with “double grams" as they say in the biz...

can you play like this?.....yeah me neither...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol09CeTzm0

so let's say you feel like you are indeed learning a lot from these silly videos i make...and maybe you are starting to feel a liiiiiiiiittttle bit guilty that you haven't thrown something in the tip jar to help with my personal one man crusade to bring chords back to music...well friends, you can fix that today....

my PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

July 23rd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam “Fireproof Blooze”

Chapters
00:00 - Putting out some Blues
02:41 - Hello, it's Uncle Larry / Yuengling in a can / Morgan Wallen session
04:11 - Vinyl record (Guthrie Trapp & Tom Bukovac)
05:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale (fireproof safe)
06:40 - Gretsch amp / '70s Ibanez 2350 / Blowing cold air on guitars makes them go sharip
07:17 - Inkas safe


Notes
Uncle Larry with a couple announcements and a little Lake Erie blues to raunch up your Monday evening

I’ll give ya a ridiculous deal on this thing ….but YOU gotta move it with your big boy dolly…I’ll hold the door for you.

Inkas TL-15 Level 3 security fireproof safe that retails at 2500.00…I bought it used for 1500

500 bucks to the first responder with some muscle…or maybe you can trade me a nice propane grill for it

Email me at tombukovac@gmail.com

July 22nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Sympathetic For The Devil”

Chapters
00:00 - Triple capo for sympathetic buzz kill


Notes
after a million sessions and 55 years on this planet I am STILL learning…

Thank you to Bryan Sutton for this life hack

July 21st, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bench Bonus “The Burning Hole”

Chapters
00:00 - Restringing a Firebird with story time
10:40 - Tour of the music room and gear


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about the burning hole inside of us all while restringing a late 63 firebird V

July 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 325, Tom Bukovac, “The Fumble”

Chapters
00:00 - Making that guitar hum along
03:10 - Howya doing? / Blake Shelton
04:10 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Moving and cleaning crew
05:18 - Beers starts to hinder playing? (6 beers)
06:03 - Classical?
06:40 - J.D. Vance
07:07 - "Lightning in a Bottle?" / Sometimes magic happens while creating / Demo is always better
09:29 - Missing kitchen, missing garage / Changing something that's good
10:06 - "Wall of amps"
10:24 - AC/DC Marshall cabinets on stage
11:44 - Fuckin' kick ass cleaning company
12:06 - "The Fumble"
13:33 - The landscape of life ("Old man going through changes" - "Divorce", "Flood", "Death of Best Friend", "Rebirth")


Notes
Uncle Larry covers some events of the day and brings back a painful memory that still haunts Clevelanders to this day....can you imagine living with the fact that YOU are the guy who is associated with an event known by any sports fan in America simply as "The Fumble"....

Even Scott Norwood feels sorry for the poor guy....

The truth is that Earnest Byner's career game that day was the only reason that his team was even in the position of potentially winning that game in the first place...but nobody remembers that part.

...and dig this backline friends…damn...
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey L...

music is so much cooler now

July 15th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Bonus, “The Secret To TRUE Happiness”

Chapters
00:00 - Finding those notes
01:00 - What's up, friends! / New Homeskoolin' set / Big life decisions
02:45 - Sincere thank you / Rick Beato video
03:40 - Cleveland boy moving on up


Notes
Well friends, the first thing old Larry did after he finally got all his beat up old gear into the new Homeskoolin World Headquarters studio was put together a new work bench that he ordered off the Amazon…

God…I am absolutely TERRIBLE at putting together unassembled furniture and shit like that….but i l finally got it.

It’s nice to have a place to work on my shitty old guitars again.
they are all a mess since my whole life has been completely uprooted….but that’s all about to change .

I just strung up and set up my trusty old 58 burst so I have at least one guitar that is feeling real good….cuz tomorrow it’s right back into the session fire…working with a very picky producer with high expectations.

The move is basically finally over praise the Sweet Baby Jesus….it’s time to start playing guitar again and thinking about music instead of where that coffee table is gonna go…

Thanks for hangin with me dear Homeskoolers