January 11th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “One More For The Dokta”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing away / Hello friends! / Remembering a friend


Notes
Today marks the 3 year of the passing of one Richard Alan Reith from Mentor Ohio

We knew him by the nickname “The Doctor”…which inevitably got morphed into “The Dokta”….but to some, he was “Uncle Rick”

Rest in peace my brother

here he is playing my old p bass 9 years ago

January 10th, 2025

The Guitar Case…..A Brief History

Chapters
00:00 - Snowing in Nashville
00:40 - '63 Fender Jazz Bass / Case
02:54 - Earliest Fender case owned
03:46 - '60's Fender cases ('60, '63, '64)
05:22 - Gibson cases (Les Paul)
05:45 - Gibson archtop cases ("California case")
06:56 - Gibson SG cases
07:33 - '62 Gibson SG case
07:55 - Early 60's Gibson / ES-335
08:30 - '70s Gibson cases / Doubleneck case
09:28 - Gretsch case '60s


Notes
Hello friends …Uncle Larry might be snowed in, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make a little video that shines a little light on the most criminally overlooked part of the whole wide world of vintage guitars ….the guitar case.

Uncle Larry takes you through several decades of these often forgotten and highly under-appreciated vessels that kept all the guitars of yesterday in one piece.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn, you’ll complain…but mostly, you will REMEMBER.

Ladies and gentlemen…I bring you…episode one of the critically acclaimed one part one season docu-drama…”The Guitar Case”

January 10th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 388, Tom Bukovac, “The Feed Trough & The Egg Basket”

Chapters
00:00 - Rockin' out to a loop, starting with bass
11:47 - What's up friends / Snow day / Fires
12:54 - Lesson: Circle of fifths & fourths
15:10 - Don't ever put all your eggs in 1 basket / Multiple feed troughs
19:25 - Pet peeve of fired musicians / Trash talking head musician / Networking
25:51 - Lesson: Faster, cleaner chords
27:28 - '58 Gibson EMS 1235 double neck / Less than 100 built / Abalone Vintage


Notes
Tom Bukovac heats up the tubes in old narrow panel tweed Deluxe on a snowy day in the not so Deep South….and also recounts the ancient tale of “the basket and the trough” (that’s pronounced “troff” Stringlocker…you know, like one of those things cows eat out of?)

January 9th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “The Blackbird Studio Repair Kiosk”

Chapters
00:00 - Blackbird Studio and gear showcase
01:30 - Begin showing gear


Notes
Hello friends, a special treat today

Nick Wood from Blackbird Studio shows us how to keep a major recording studio running

January 8th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 387, Tom Bukovac, “Martin Gibson"

Chapters
00:00 - Acoustic shootout / Martin
01:28 - Gibson (Electric Light Orchestra / ELO - Telephone Line)
03:40 - Martin vs Gibson
04:06 - Old guitars started with (Crestline SG copy, Aria Tele Custom, 1979 Les Paul Deluxe)
06:54 - Band started out with / Drummer for Barbara Mandrell / Move to Nashville
09:41 - Son seeing the industry from the inside (Blackbird Studio)
10:30 - Thanks for previous video / P90s
11:59 - Bukovac hate week / Lying people on videos / Watching an argument
16:54 - Strong opinions / Thanks for support / Triple in the studio / Blake Shelton
19:10 - Lesson: The claw picking


Notes
Uncle Larry shows ya a quick example of the vast difference between the sound of a Martin acoustic and an old Gibson acoustic …

If you are indeed getting something useful out of this channel and you feel led to throw a little something in the tip jar here ya go

PayPal is tombukovac@gmail.com
Venmo is @Tom-Bukovac-1

January 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 386, Tom Bukovac, “Mic It Up”

Chapters
00:00 - Beautiful sounds from the 90s
08:43 - Hello, friends! / MN Chorus / Talking Scott Baggett / Christmas lights
10:40 - Loading out shows / Bands and being a bass player
12:16 - Phases of guitar players life
13:53 - Tube amps vs modelers / Oxbox
15:27 - Miking an amp / Different kinds of mics
19:37 - Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix
20:20 - Lesson: Demonstration of miking an amp (video)



Notes
Uncle Larry explores the dynamic subtleties and tonal possibilities of a couple 70 year old P90s and gets into some deep talks regarding mic’ing tube amplifiers

the microphone tutorial at the end was made by my dear friend Drew Bollman....engineer to the stars...
thank you my dear man

January 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Bonus…”Christmas Gift Review Pt. 1”

Chapters
00:00 - Battery tester product


Notes
Hello friends, you may be as skeptical as I originally was about an item like this…

but I gotta tell ya….after having it for a couple weeks now, I literally cannot even picture what my life was like before this amazing device came along….

The Battery Daddy by Ontel

It completely won me over and now…
Now I am a believer

January 6th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 385, Tom Bukovac, “Monday Night Humbuckin'"

Chapters
00:00 - Hello, friends! / NFL Detroit / Pickups / Updates


Notes
Uncle Larry strings up his dear son’s 100 dollar project guitar that he spent two days painting,
and answers some random VCB from his trusty iPad.

Special thank you to Nick D at Glaser Instruments for helping facilitate a young man’s six string dream...i appreciate it bro

here's that cool website i mentioned for looking up who played on what and searching credits...
https://www.muso.ai/

this was the original site people used to use to search credits before AI
https://www.allmusic.com/

they are both cool

January 3rd, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 384, Tom Bukovac, “Empress New Clothes”

Chapters
00:00 - Some crunchy goodness
02:25 - Hello, dear friends! / Morgan Wallen
03:54 - Dan Huff and producing record
05:49 - Empress new drive pedal / Controls / Distortion
07:13 - Gibson Les Paul Goldtop clean into amp
07:35 - Pedal demo
09:12 - Bass to match Lake Placid Blue Strat
11:30 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Getting excited about music / 1978 Elvis Costello / Bruce Thomas bass
13:47 - Born without tone? / Being able to decifer tone
16:13 - Did you see you have a stalker?
17:48 - Nasty weather
18:37 - '57 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop / Outro playing


Notes
This is basically a live recording from 1978…try to imagine being in a band THIS good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s

December 29th, 2024

Homeskoolin Volume 383, Tom Bukovac, “Plastic Cymbals and Status Symbols”

Chapters
00:00 - Pleasant Prince morning music
03:17 - "...never meant to cause you..." Hello, friends! / NFL and hot picks
04:26 - Little league football
05:09 - Electronic drums
06:44 - '65? Gibson Firebird I (Ember Red)
08:00 - Lesson: Prince - Purple Rain / Add9 / Beatles / Flanger and Chorus
10:05 - Realization about virtues of a '59 Burst
18:20 - Betting


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects about many things on a fine Sunday morning