June 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 643, Tom Bukovac, “The Black Stripes”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Stratocaster
02:24 - Playing and Singing: Frank Zappa - Dancing Fool / Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
04:57 - Hope everyone is doing great out there  :| / Frank Zappa / Skipping solos
07:40 - Dodge Durango Hellcat
09:17 - Intro to Ella Langley - Choosing Texas vs. Eddie Money - Tickets to Paradise
11:26 - "Why don't you make your own records?"
12:34 - Buckethead as a kid
13:53 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ugly hands, dick comment
15:17 - The Cliffs release
16:38 - '65 Fender Stratocaster Lake Placid Blue / Playing


Notes
710 horsepower
645 foot pounds of torque
2 miles to the gallon
About to be discontinued because police vehicles can’t catch them
The Hellcat

‘Merica


Here’s the CLIFFS album pre-save link friends
https://ffm.to/cliffs


remember these days friends?
lord i just happened upon this video yesterday...haven't seen it since we did that gig....what a flood of emotions about that whole chapter of my life wow

• Ann Wilson- “Crazy On You” 6/24/21 Hard Ro...

June 7th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 642, Tom Bukovac, “Acoustophrenia”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Martin D-28 Herringbone
01:55 - Hello friends / Pepe / Fender Mustang
03:00 - Ice Road Truckers / Chef movie
06:24 - CMA Festival?
07:09 - Slip on banana peel?
08:21 - Lesson: "Zeps" or "String squeaks"
10:10 - "They don't know what they don't know" / Learning lessons and crushing dreams
12:22 - Moving out of depression to positiveness
13:43 - Coffee / Selling guitars high / A.I. photo changing


Notes
Uncle Larry shreds on his 39 bone, a guitar which suffers from acute schizophrenia.

June 6th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 641, Tom Bukovac, “Beluga-Grass Festival”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing
01:51 - What's up / "What the fuck's that chord Larry?"
02:40 - Love anything depressing
03:23 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / "Positive Downbeat Mentality"
04:06 - Beluga cat channel / Son wheelie
05:08 - "Should do a video with Bubba"
05:42 - Lesson: Alternative voicing
07:05 - "Would Jerry Reed...have a YouTube channel?"
08:15 - Negative Vince Gill video comments / Spoonfed vs. hard work
11:30 - Correction of video / Joan Jett / Playing: '39 Martin D-28 Herringbone
14:29 - Beluga cat
14:58 - Peter Frampton studio and coffee / Richard Landis
17:46 - Fun movie fact (Vanishing Point)
18:47 - Bekka Bramlett


Notes
Uncle Larry talks about many many things in a typical morning Homeskoolin’ ramble.

The French movie I was trying to think of was “Irreversible”…still to this day the darkest movie I have ever seen

The Richard Landis movie was called “Greetings”

Thank the Good Lord for the google

June 3rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 640, Tom Bukovac, “Garage Chopper”

Chapters
00:00 - Hi, friends / Movie: The Lost Boys
01:17 - '62 Gibson ES-330 chopper
03:12 - Ben Gallagher session
06:15 - Eagles - Already Gone / Cooper Time Cube
09:30 - Shipped guitars
12:00 - Tuning
13:07 - Playing: Gibson ES-330


Notes
Uncle Larry shows the class an egregiously chopped 62 es-330 with a particularly gnarly pair of late 60’s Gibson Patent Number humbuckers after a day’s work

And please take a moment to check out the video for CLIFFS new single

June 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “A Guitar You Can Grow Old With”

Chapters
00:00 - 000-18 for sale


Notes
Here’s a sweet one for you guys

A nice straight 1942 Martin OOO-18 that my dear friend Brandon Hood owns

All there except a non original case

20k plus shipping

If you wanna take a shot at this one email me at tombukovac@gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with Brandon

June 2nd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 639, Tom Bukovac, “The New Music”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing: Fender Jazzmaster
06:21 - Hi, friends! / Pepe the dandruff boy
07:45 - Movies: The Lost Boys vs. Fight Club
08:17 - '63 Fender Jazzmaster
09:25 - "The New Wave" / Cocaine level in Nashville '80s
11:18 - Lesson: The Gallop
15:10 - Brandon Hood / Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
Uncle Larry kicks off today’s progrum with the lost new wave song from 1981…that he just made up 5 minutes before he rolled the camera

After a quick google I found the book…it was actually called “The New Music”…

Wow, what a distant memory…but it had a big effect on me as a kid

and TOTALLY unrelated, I somehow happened upon this old video last night , a rare rehearsal version of Nathaniel Rateliff singing an old Leon Russell tune beautifully…this was for some tribute concert we did years ago.

This version is way cooler than the “actual” version that ended up on the YouTube ..I love his voice on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEt2Gqn-gNQ

June 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Classic Plastic”

Chapters
00:00 - '63 Fender Stratocaster - Brandon Hood's instrument with plastic tuner buttons


Notes
Whatta ya think friends ? Original or not ?

June 1st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Some Light Garage Sale-ing”

Chapters
00:00 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Fender Mustang
01:54 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: Dean Cadillac
04:03 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '63 Fender Jazz Bass


Notes
Uncle Larry tarts out a few snazzy reasonably priced items for an early summer garage sale

Please email me at tombukovac@gmail.com if you want any of these instruments

Local pickup ALWAYS preferred friend …domestic US shipping only

May 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 638, Tom Bukovac, “Heavy Benchin’”

Chapters
00:00 - Hello friends / Sparkling water / Serial 4445
03:32 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior
05:52 - Music City Bridge
07:13 - Marcus King & Dan Auerbach | Behind the Scenes with Rolling Stone (link)
11:30 - Alison Krauss
12:30 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior / Brandon Hood
15:26 - Nashville guy / Setting up the guitar / Fender Stratocaster


Notes
Here’s some long form bench content for the TRUE Homeskoolers out there…this is basically the Homeskoolin’ equivalent of reading “War And Peace”…
Maybe save this one for the next time you get a cold and you’ve got a few days to just lay around on the couch and watch 10 movies in a row

What you’ll see and hear if you DO stick around ….

You’ll see Larry changing out the original bridge on a lovely old 58 LP Junior, and you’ll get to hear that guitar play TRULY in tune for the first time in its life…after 68 years of faithful rock and roll service on this glorious planet

and… you’ll take an extensive tour through 3 very strident lovely sounding original pickups on a 1957 Stratocaster …and you’ll get to hear them played right next to the original pickups on a 65 LPB Stratocaster through the same amp

Hope you enjoy friends

May 31st, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 637, Tom Bukovac, “Good Guitar Hands”

Chapters
00:00 - Son playing the acoustic / Form 1 and Form 2 chords
06:19 - Uncle Larry's Garage Sale: '57 Fender Stratocaster
09:30 - '58 Gibson Les Paul Junior


Notes
You gotta admit, the boy has BEAUTIFUL guitar hands….literally born to play …13 years old and strong as an ox.

Thanks for watching friends ..the old Hornswaggler has sure enough been at it lately…buying and selling hard friends…keeping UPS and Fed Ex in business

Thanks for all the kind comments lately about the video that just came out of Marcus King and your favorite uncle throwin down on an old Allman Brothers classic …you guys all know how I feel about Marcus, he gives me hope for the future of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKFn2Qlmmc

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