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May 15th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ Volume 447, Tom Bukovac, “This Machine Kills Cell Phone Cameras”
Chapters00:00 - Playing
07:18 - Out of tune / Check-in / Talent show / Hellcat
08:54 - '65 Fender Stratocaster / D minor progression / Thanks for shredding words
09:48 - Brett Papa and Rock 'n' Roll
11:00 - Daniel Tasha
11:39 - Pedal Steel and Slash
15:00 - Brett Papa class
Notes
Uncle Larry on another one of his rants
Here is the link to join the mailing list friends
I PROMISE I will never mail bomb you….it will be tasteful
https://maximumlarry.com/course
May 14th, 2025
Homeskoolin’ “A Complete Guide To Overdrive Pedals That Actually Work”
Chapters00:00 - 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"
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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”
Chapters00:00 - 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