March 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Nerves Of Steel”

Chapters
00:00 - Playing on a beauty pedal steel


Notes
You already knew it wouldn’t be long before he went back to playing a proper old sho-bud 10 string 3 and 1 with rods like he used to play

Uncle Larry never does ANYTHING half assed

March 12th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 590, Tom Bukovac, “The Half Step Mod”

Chapters
00:00 - Tune from memory
01:31 - How's it going out there, friends? / Guitar safaris / Pedal steel
07:15 - Jizzboy
09:21 - Pedal steel
10:54 - Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)? / A.I. cuts into Demos / Will it take over?
17:09 - Lesson: Tablature [X 3 2 0 1 0]
18:00 - Marshall amp thanks


Notes
Uncle Larry reflects on some current events while enjoying a hot cup of Gus’s tears.

This is the record that Paul played a steel solo on when he was friggin 13

He also mixed the congas at a level he thought was appropriate
• Gallery - Nice To Be With You

March 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “First Day With The New Steel”

Chapters
00:00 - Pedal steel playing


Notes
Mike Bourque I’m comin for you pal!!

Seriously friends …don’t be too hard on me…just havin a little fun here trying to stay outta trouble

March 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 589, Tom Bukovac, “Buddhism Made Easy”

Chapters
00:00 - Raunch
01:33 - Hello, class! / Radio stations through the Watkins Scout / Chilling out
02:52 - Feeling like a dirty whore / Jamie French - The Hunter & Edge of Seventeen
06:37 - Hypochondria / CT scan and bloodwork
12:19 - Steely Dan body of work / Bodhisattva
15:09 - Acoustic change out and tuning
16:30 - Lesson: Steely Dan - Bodhisattva chords
20:28 - Drummer friend channel / Pedal steel


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some post test results rock and roll for ya on a lovely old Gibson solid body.

March 9th, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Volume 588, Tom Bukovac “All The Petes”

Chapters
00:00 - In depth with a pedal steel


Notes
You may have thought that ol’ Larry’s pedal steel phase had already came and went many years ago…and you would be right ….

but…I recently got the urge to jump back in the fire and bought myself an old 1961 Fender 400

I had no idea how to set up the changes and pedals, so I called my dear old friend and legendary steel guitar man Bruce Bouton.

He was kind enough to burn a Sunday afternoon crawlin’ around underneath this archaic piece of Fullerton history, to help me get it up and running like it’s supposed to.

Bruce is a real country music historian, and I’m glad I had the cameras rolling to capture some of these great stories.

In the world of guitar , the name Steve is the most popular…there are a million great guitar players named Steve….

but in the pedal steel world , Pete is the magic name …Sneaky Pete, Pete Drake, Pete Wade…

Thanks for being on the progrum Brucey!!

February 23rd, 2026

Homeskoolin’ Session Update “The Ocean’s Way”

Chapters
00:00 - Ocean Way Recording Studios
01:09 - Uncle Larry pedalboard
01:30 - 100W Marshall / Chorus Echo


Notes
Blake Shelton at Oceanway Studios

Scott Hendricks is the producer

Justin Niebank engineering

Uncle Larry
Troy Lancaster
Bryan Sutton
Aaron Sterling
Jimmie Sloas
Paul Franklin
Gordon Mote

December 8th, 2025

Homeskoolin, “A Fun Christmas Time Gear Lover’s Special Holiday Bonus Video Spectacular”

Chapters
00:00 - The Cave tour
00:43 - Gear tour (synth, bass, drums, steel)
00:53 - Uncle Larry's rig and new pedalboard
01:21 - '70 Marshall Superbass
02:23 - Diamond Compressor
02:29 - Donald Fagan's MXR Phaser
02:50 - Mick Ronson Wah
03:00 - Full pedalboard
03:15 - Guitars
03:42 - Amps
04:00 - Addendum / All acoustic guitars


Notes
Uncle Larry gives a brief tour of a cool studio called “The Cave” in Nashville TN…it is one of the sub studios of the bigger entity called “East Iris Studios” which were formerly called “House Of Blues”

If you feel like these free videos are somehow enriching your brief existience on this constantly changing planet , please don’t be shy about visiting the tip jar and sending a little holiday cheer to old Uncle Larry

Friends, i SINCERELY appreciate each and every donation, and I am extremely thankful for all the sweet comments/messages and stories you guys share with me…I am truly thankful for all of you …basically everyone EXCEPT that soul-less fat ass Deercreek ….and that talent-free imbecile Combsie…and that brain dead wanker Jizzboy

If you wanna use PayPal it’s
Tombukovac@gmail.com

If you wanna use Venmo it’s
@Tom-Bukovac-1

November 21st, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 529, Tom Bukovac, “A Sure Sign Your Repair Guy Is A Hack”

Chapters
00:00 - Bench intro
02:22 - Pedalboard intro
04:37 - Components on board: Diamond - Compressor, Collision Devices - Black Hole Symmetry, Digitech - Whammy, Coppersound - Telegraph V2 Autostutter & Killswitch
05:43 - XTS pedalboard builders
07:36 - '59 Danelectric U2 (Silvertone) / Rick Vito
10:23 - NFL
11:53 - D'Addario strap locks
14:09 - Ace guitar strap
14:42 - Nashville Bender Volume 3
16:45 - Gibson ES-355 Mono / Overbeveled frets
19:29 - Gassed out pickguard / Overbeveled frets
26:54 - Playing


Notes
i'll bet this isn’t the first time you guys have gone on a total stream of consciousness journey after a Bills game

check out this site my dear friends...some cool and cozy new Homeskoolin shirts just in time for winter...
https://humbuckermerch.com

here's the site for Baked Alaska records...they distribute my solo record, the record i made with Guthrie Trapp, plus the latest Dann Huff record.
https://bakedalaskarecords.com

they will very soon be be putting out the latest "Nashville Benders Volume 3" record featuring all KINDS of red hot pickers...Brent Mason, johnny Hiland, Jimmy Olander etc etc

June 14th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 462, Tom Bukovac, “Tubetorial”

Chapters
00:00 - Pedal steel guitar rig
01:48 - Tubes


Notes
If you don’t care at all about those glass things that get real hot in the back of your amp, then PLEASE click off this video

If you DO care, then listen to Ebo wax rhapsodic about the drug of choice for all real amp nerds…the new old stock vacuum tube

And if you haven’t signed up your email to receive half off my upcoming guitar course then shame on you

Maximumlarry.com/course

June 7th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Road Update “Roy D Mercer Theater”

Chapters
00:00 - Eddie Dunlap playing
06:30 - Drumming


Notes
You know you’re in a pretty good band when the pedal steel player and the keyboard player on the gig are better guitar players than most lead guitar players in other bands

Meet Eddie Dunlap , pedal steeler to the stars

a 35 year old man with the soul of an 80 year old

Not to mention a crucial drum lesson from Billy Thomas

May 25th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 455, Tom Bukovac, “The Wide Wide River Of Tuning”

Chapters
00:00 - Gibson P90 harmonics
06:09 - Pedalboard laboratory


Notes
Uncle Larry shows you some licks and some gear


Please sign up for the email list to get half off my course that comes out June 6

maximumlarry.com/course

May 24th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Behind The Scenes Bonus “Uncle Larry’s World”

Chapters
00:00 - Tom & Jedd's pedalboards, rig rundown, guitars


Notes
Uncle Larry’s little personal playground

Do NOT steal these settings, because they sound terrible

Starring Eddie Shea and sweet Erica

May 16th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 448, Tom Bukovac, “Clam Bake”

Chapters
00:00 - Rocking out on the Dean
02:45 - Uncle Larry checking in / Talent show / Homeskoolin' theme song
04:15 - Spiritual Power
04:45 - Pedals, pedals, pedals / Harmon Booster
07:57 - Uni-Fuzz
08:24 - Old Big Muffs
10:05 - '67 Pontiac GTO / Hellcat
11:12 - Tal Wilkenfeld / The Cliffs
11:56 - Allman Brothers - Sweet Melissa (out of pocket)
13:21 - War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (massive clams)
13:55 - Sign up for course - 50% off


Notes
Uncle Larry plays a little AOR radio rock and gets into the world of auto mechanics

here is the link to the mailing list
https://maximumlarry.com/course

May 15th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 447, Tom Bukovac, “This Machine Kills Cell Phone Cameras”

Chapters
00:00 - 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 4th, 2025

Homeskoolin’ Volume 439, Tom Bukovac, “Swang”

Chapters
00:00 - One Hour Photo loop with slide over it
02:54 - Ungraceful dismount
04:40 - Slide
11:44 - Checking in / Solo over the depressing loop / Vince Gill rehearsals
14:30 - Pedalboard used to use with Ann Wilson
14:52 - Loathe the Strymon Timeline
15:40 - Nashville Guitar Center and meeting a fan in public
17:25 - Lesson: Looking to play some Swang
19:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll take you home" lick
20:26 - Lesson: Goofing around lick
21:05 - Lesson: "Sure I'll accompany you back to your hotel" picking all 5 fingers lick (F13 [1 x 1 2 3 1])
22:25 - Lesson: Pull off in F is even cooler


Notes
Uncle Larry plays some depressing slide and then gets into some nasty western swing licks you can teach your grand kids some day

…and totally unrelated, this is sooo my new favorite YouTube channel....i fuckin' LOVE this guy

he's a total bad ass master craftsman with a zillion subscribers on YouTube...
i'm not even a builder and i have already learned so much from watching his stuff.
on a more sentimental note, i chose this video of his to show you first because i love the reverence he has for the great people that built this amazing country

this shit is right up my alley friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMOxBm7NsU

November 9th, 2024

Homeskoolin' "FINALLY, He Talks About Pedals!!!"

Chapters
00:00 - Some crazy pedal modulation and fuzz
01:30 - Collision Devices - Tars
02:14 - Reason son isn't on camera / Worst product ever
03:10 - Bare minimum pedalboard / Heavy and hard to carry
04:45 - Pedalboard look / Brigadier / Vintage pedals selloff?
07:50 - Son, Marshall playing
08:34 - Marshall's pedalboard


Notes
Uncle Larry gets into some pedal talk...because he knows you've been patiently waiting for it

June 2nd, 2024

Homeskoolin’ …”An Open Letter To Little Johnny In Nowheresville Nebraska”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming the Online Chess song
00:44 - Sunday chilling / Gear questions / Imitation pedalboards appreciated
02:07 - Pedalboard build journey for years
03:29 - Learn how to touch the guitar
04:06 - Each piece of gear on pedalboard was a discovery
05:12 - Side ebay business selling gear / Remembering the gear that works
06:47 - Boss SD-2, Tube Screamers, Rotosphere, Volume pedals, Boss GE-7 (EQ), Line 6 M9 / Making pedalboards
09:00 - 5 different pedalboards and use them all
10:03 - Key components on pedalboard (incremental gain, eq, trail, volume)
10:55 - Pedalboard #1 (mid-size case for demos when don't have cartage)
12:03 - Pedalboard #2 (2nd largest for touring)
13:30 - Pedalboard case
13:44 - Pedalboard #3 (bare essentials)
14:13 - Pedalboard #4 (video making board)


Notes
Uncle Larry goes waaaaay off brand with this pedalboard “excursion”

February 6th, 2024

Homeskoolin’ Volume 275, Tom Bukovac, “You Go On TV With Hair Like That?”

Chapters
00:00 - Strumming some Heavenly tunes
03:15 - Hello, friends! / That Pedal Show / Episode 275
04:23 - Gibson Doubleneck and some sounds
05:06 - Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
06:52 - Toby Keith, RIP
10:00 - Rick Beato video
10:22 - Epiphone rabbit hole
11:22 - Lesson: Cool lick / Gibson Doubleneck sounds
12:09 - Movies: Mighty Wind & Best In Show
13:25 - VCB (Viewer Comment Bin) / Ever get nervous? / Don't read music
15:23 - Nervous about getting sick on stage / In charge of a gig and something going wrong
16:50 - Andy Gellison rework of Doubleneck
17:30 - Mortified at past recordings at all?


Notes
bed head Larry plays ya' a little early morning blues and pays tribute to a dear old departed friend

tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958…amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modelers...

and now for some fucking GENIUS comedy...

October 27th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Bonus, "The Early Years"

Chapters
00:00 - Bending the Country out of that thing
01:36 - Real quick check-in
02:02 - Old school pedalboard
04:11 - Boss Dual Overdrive SD-2, Boss Tremolo TR-2, Hughes & Kettner, Tube Rotosphere, Nobels, ODS-1, Boss, Dual Overdrive, SD-2, V-Wah, PW-10, Tremolo, TR-2, GE-7, Ernie Ball, Volume
05:53 - Custom Shop Tele relic / Uncle Larry's Garage Sale notice
08:09 - Lesson: Old Country Western licks


Notes
Thanks to Jeff Grossman for unearthing that ancient photo

This tele is a custom shop 2021 "1960 Telecaster Custom HVREL"

which i assume stands for "heavy relic"...or "heavy fake memories" as i call it

Its a super fancy custom shop piece that comes ALL the outrageous case candy...AND i put some good brass saddles on it for ya...you're welcome

September 27th, 2023

Homeskoolin' Volume 245, Tom Bukovac, "Chops Vs Feel"

Chapters
00:00 - Spacey, trippy playing
02:14 - Polychord? Pedaltone? (Important lesson here kids)
04:40 - Hello, folks! / Chill week vs. career crashing
05:33 - EHX Memory Man / New pedalboard
07:19 - Memory Man maximum delay time
08:00 - Use it in chorus or vibrato mode? / Demonstration
08:55 - Ebo E-Verb is amazing
09:45 - Special "Fuck-Off" for flipping guitars critic
10:39 - The whole point of the channel
10:58 - Do you like to play loud? / Kenny Wayne
12:24 - Rock 'n' Roll lawyer
13:04 - Undulating / Bending the neck
13:56 - Studio guys in live band context delicacy
16:26 - Tom's sons progressing at music beautifully
17:40 - Totally original guitar player?  Allan Holdsworth
20:17 - Drummers that have the best 'feel'?  John Bonham, Jim Gordon, Phil Collins
21:56 - Having guitar talent with no 'feel'
23:05 - What band do you not like...everbody else does?
25:00 - Expense of Les Pauls and progression
27:20 - Do I talk too much?
27:46 - Totally chopped Epiphone Crestwood
28:51 - Playing: Joy of big distortion
29:42 - Crazy edits video guy, Buddy Jolly


Notes
In this video Uncle Larry goes to some "unusual places"

Check out this guy's crazy videos next time you are bored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztZ3adB3LI