Homeskoolin’ Volume 246, Tom Bukovac “You’re Soaking In It”

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[@AbsoluteNoah]

Do you think its a bad idea to meet your heroes

[@501chorusecho]

Depends on who your hero is

[@AbsoluteNoah]

@@501chorusecho did you ever meet yours?

[@shawnkennedy855]

Stephen Stills.@@501chorusecho

[@929JoeB]

The first time I saw Robin Trower, Golden Earring opened for Trower. What a great concert that was!

[@linheitzig9227]

Radar Love was a huge hit on the FM radio. 1973, year I graduated from high school. That song was blasting from everyone's car!

[@bradstone3907]

I first introduced to Radar Love by the White Lion cover.

[@oldgtarz]

Radar Love is one of the biggest hits any of my fellow countrymen ever wrote. Everyone in Holland knows it. Just came back from a gig at a football (soccer) club and like always, Radar Love really got them going!

[@scripteaze]

@@bradstone3907 eww

[@SealedOrPorted]

@@bradstone3907They did a great job with that cover.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

I wasn’t even hatched until ‘76 so the White Lion cover was my first exposure to the song. I dug it. But then I heard the original and fell in love with it.

[@DominicHudson79]

The fact a song like ‘Radar Love’ still sounds so vibrant and alive today, it amazes me there aren’t young players out there aspiring to make that type of music again. ‘Jackie Blue’ is another one of those songs, a great guitar record that never gets old.

[@richardclark.]

jackie and pretty much every OMD song has some serious tone!

[@jeffreyduncan989]

I was in the studio today and I will say say that the way you layer parts is influencing the way I arrange songs… I’m no Tom Buckovac but I am better than when I started watching. Watching your vlogs in the studio sessions have been very helpful. Thx again for giving back to the guitar community 👍👍👍

[@501chorusecho]

Thank you dude…kind words

[@jimmywithaj1]

Hey Tom, thanks for stating what you did about not wanting to replace your playing with the playing of an idol. At age 66, I consider myself a good guitar player, having played since I was 13. I’ve been active, playing semi-professionally all my life. I certainly continue to grow as a musician constantly, but man… I hear so many stellar players, you included, and often lament,”I suck, wish I could play like that guy”! Your take on it today was very encouraging and made me think, I make good music, and there are many folks who wish they could do what I do. That, of course, is not the goal…to be better than anybody, but to be viable as a musician. Thanks for your encouragement! Really dig the show!😊

[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤what a great comment JimmywithaJ

[@jhhicks]

what some homeskoolers might have missed is this is also the best channel to learn about the parts of a plant. i love the kid's artwork/projects all over the room. take care, uncle larry.

[@nicolasfox]

When you sing, the world is a better place.

[@kevinmalone8903]

Love the solo in Radar Love. He just digs in and attacks those notes

[@johnplunkett2004]

I just love how effortlessly Tom can just start playing the vocal melody of any song - on top of the guitar chords. It'd take me days to figure it out.

[@lionelmandrake785]

I love when you breakdown Pete. He was ferocious!

[@JeffreyPunkari]

Never commented before on any video but i wanted to say Thanks! You are awesome! I love all of it. Thanks for doing what you do. I am not sure I would have made it through the pandemic without you!

[@toddpowers5373]

That amp hum, hilarious…. this is the truth, it feels so natural to me I really never even picked up on it’s presence as “background noise”. You’ve once again captured the ideal sound track. You are genius Tom, that’s why I tune in, always.

[@ngiles1000]

Radar Love historically one of the very finest rock tracks, there’s a great orchestra version with Barry Hay the lead singer which is a must watch

[@ianquittner6067]

That drum groove for Radar Love was iconic... as well as the kick ass guitar.

[@bobk7118]

Great tone.....and tssteful playing

[@johntwardy1430]

You you are what you are and you ain't what you ain't ....

[@KowankoMusic]

Townshend's Empty Glass is so great. "Rough Boys" with those crazy orchestrated chords in the outro. Just bonkers.

[@scottrath1183]

Hey Tom, me and my mate listening to you from Brisbane Australia, 3 in the morning 👍

[@501chorusecho]

oy mate

[@stringlocker]

It's good when Australia chimes in then we know there's still a tomorrow.

[@yogiguitar1]

i have to agree with you on the lamb lies down.its the greatest man.i bought it in about '77 i was maybe 14. nobody i knew liked it. imagine that! trick of the tail and selling england by the pound great records .its hard to say which is my favourite. the beatles was my first love followed by the who purple zep hendrix sabbath lizzy van halen then i got into funkadelic. there you go. you're the second person ive ever met who likes the lamb lies down ! anyway man i love what you're doing its inspired me as a player and there you go . cheers !

[@michaeldarrin2026]

Tom, it never gets old sitting down and listening to you either play guitar or just carry on a conversation...it's like meeting up with a long lost friend, definitely brightens the day. Keep on keeping on and bless you....

[@johngoodrich3536]

Ruff boy's Townsend can do more with a d chord than most of us. The rain just stopped and the sun came out and I turned this on. It's going to be a good Friday.

[@raoul_duke7253]

Love that attitude! Have a great weekend brother!!!

[@polishmasterjay]

Wedges for life!!!🎯💯👏

[@Nightpants]

Pete Townshend is a completely underrated guitarist. The Who influenced most of our influences.

[@jeff4310]

Hey Tom, YES, Radar Love was a huge, huge hit in the early to mid 70s. I was 11 when it came out and it just had that certain "something' that made you have to listen to it over and over. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how you played it at the end of this video so beautifully from memory as you were "just in the moment." That was so awesome that I had to watch it over again. You're a true genius!

[@davidpepper442]

Radar Love is an incredible song! A lot of energy in that tune.

[@megawattblue]

Radar Love was a great Driving Song. Speed limit was 55, we had FM stereos with cassette decks up loud, and some of us watched the light on the radar detector. Another good one, Uncle Larry!

[@tadmorrison]

Pete Townshend’s White City record is one of my all-time favorites. For part of the tour, his second guitar player was David Gilmour.

[@jason-landry]

Your solo album and the Trip The Witch album are two of the finest instrumental albums that I have ever heard. To me, melodic playing with feel is more impressive than just shredding. Yeah, the latter is cool, but what you play is more soulful and meaningful. Will we see more albums released from you or Trip The Witch in the future?

[@21danny17]

uncle Larry and Guthrie trapp recorded an album together a few months back. I can't wait for the release!!

[@tone1798]

I definitely could go for another TRIP THE WITCH ALBUM 🤙🏽

[@ryanjohnson985]

Sweet Tele, Buk! I love how you are never satisfied until you have the feel and sound dialed in! ❤

[@Clayton-t5i]

I love this Tom, be who you are, find who you are folks, be yourself, don't try to play like anybody but yourself, learn some scales and modes and chords and shit that sounds cool, and do you with all that.

[@francoisrousseau7893]

Favorite musical channel on youtube - thanks for taking the time to share your experience and all .

[@brianwood7237]

Happy Friday to ya Tommy Thanks for playing one my favorite Townsend guitar tracks for us...on an old Tele too 💪

[@basdegroot2528]

I played and sang with the Golden Earring’s lead singer three weeks ago at a gig here in Holland. We played the Earrings greatest hits. Their guitarist is suffering from ALS so they stopped playing as a band a few years ago. So sad. Radar Love was the encore of the show and we were realizing how big of a hit this song still is and so recognizable all over the world. The dude still rocks. Dutch rock ‘n roll legacy. Check out Long Blond Animal in case you don’t know that song. Killer riff.

[@chesterproudfoot9864]

Their 50th anniversary show was amazing, just wish I could have been there in person.

[@russelstrings9978]

Tom, do you still get goosebumps when the magic happens? Goosebumps is what made me want to learn lead guitar when I was 14 in 1974!

[@roughcutguitars]

You NAILED it.

[@JimFothergill]

Never miss a show! Thx!

[@DreaNEO]

This has been quite a busy week for class Uncle Larry!!! THANKS BUK.. always so much to digest and enjoy. I saw Peter Gabriel in Cleveland Wednesday and thought of you while David Rhodes was laying down his parts...what a SHOW!

[@drb0813]

Tom, I've been watching for a while and I enjoy your channel immensely. My playing is nowhere near pro level but I still enjoy and get something out of every video. I feel like we're just hanging out chatting. Keep it up and F-off to anyone who doesn't get you, which I really don't understand. You are so down to earth, I love it!!!

[@mikebrown7721]

Sharing your insight and perspective is so special to hear for me and so many out here……many thanks

[@tommyraper3895]

Loved Radar Love when I was a kid, recorded it on a cassette player off the radio, and then played it over and over!

[@hank987]

"there is wisdom in pain"...I am not sure I have heard a statement so true.....

[@TheFeelButton]

Blackbird is putting out some great stuff! Cheers Tom!!

[@joeurbanowski321]

Thanks Blackbird Studios..!!!

[@Tedmaul99]

Talking about playing the music you love... last year I was on a guitar camp with the brilliant Rob Harris, just living and breathing guitar for a week. One morning I was playing with headphones on some Hendrix-y noodling and I suddenly realised I was making the sounds that I wished for all those years ago when I started playing as a teenager. I just thought, that's enough, that's really all I ever wanted. It actually made me cry, which took me by surprise. I keep thinking back to that moment, it seems important.

[@501chorusecho]

That’s the shit bro

[@blueshawk5649]

I'm still amazed that the Beatles played all those concerts with. no wedges, no earbuds, girls screaming their guts out and their harmonies was still good.. i don't know how they did it.

[@Mickey69745]

I like all of it. The playing, the sports cards, all of it.

[@brianwood7237]

Wedges are the reason why there is a high-pitched ringing in my ear every night I go to sleep... but I had a damn good time getting that ringing in my ear

[@scottmay1489]

Still have an embedded memory of watching a cover band playing radar love outside as a 12 yo kid in 1975, fascinated with the dude ripping up the solo and guitar riffs. Had to go back home and try and figure it out for myself the old fashioned way. Needle up back to the start, try and play it…repeat. No KZbin, just ears and figuring stuff out. Probably like many self taught 70s guitar players, in my room with my favorite rock records trying to figure them out! Thanks Tom for keeping the old guys (and young ones!)inspired to keep playing. Always inspired to keep learning new things, and inching my way off the plateau up the mountain of guitar playing. Been listening since the start back in the garage…keep it rolling. Thanks again -

[@ampman50]

Dearest Uncle, you are the Mutts Nutts..😉 Keep the light burning. Great health to you and your family. All the best from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. My 100Watt 68 S/B plexi, as you know is the best amp. EVER..🎸

[@metelegerald]

Dude every time I see you even lift a finger i'm learning some new shit I never even thought before. Thanks for the Homeskoolin' Larry!

[@climbtibet]

Really cool stuff; Genisis never got the recognition and credit for the cool chit - i😅especially the early years. So awesome, the fact that that you are bringing all these kind of sounds to younger ears is simply great - majorly cool, thank you brother Tom.

[@scotttalley1274]

Yo Tom....Peter Gabriel is slaying it!!! Every city he's goes on this latest tour is burning up with ovations and praise. Let's get some tickets.

[@uyngane]

Just re-watched Ep.22. (Firebird) Lot of water under the bridge since then...for all of us! Still enjoying the ride, Tom. Stay well.

[@delv2473]

I loved it when you made that tele sound like three guitars playing together. I leave again with the schoolin smile on my face

[@philippehendrickx1109]

I used to live close to George Kooymans, golden earrings' guitar player and I even was lucky enough to visit his studio many moons ago. Very cool guy!

[@amoodymule]

Love the Trigger Hippy outing, you made that one great, just what my ole ears dig, love your playing and talking, good stuff, cheers

[@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer]

The primary thing thats so important and that people see in you is _themselves._ That's a special thing.

[@tomnorris4339]

When you play that! They know you mean business! Love it!! Your the best my man!!

[@jrsn2music]

Golden Earing. Dutch band. I saw them live in 1973 when they opened for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen in 1973. There's a concert for ya. Golden Earing were great. Commander Cody too. Bill Kirchen, awesome guitar player.

[@Astral-Rek]

Thanks Tom. We appreciate you bringing this content to us

[@DH432hrtz]

I so remember stumbing into Radar Love or Frankenstein Egar Winter. These songs changed me early and helped me just be free to just love what I love! MUSIC The end.. Enjoy your day 😎

[@DJBuglip]

Yeah dude, that's a great record. I grew up in OK, was 13 in 1979. So you didn't hear prog Genesis here, the only Genesis I had been exposed to was on the radio. But I saw all those old jackets in the used record store, and was like, wtf is this? I'm SOOOO glad I bought em. lol.

[@DJBuglip]

Lol, I love Release, Release. There's no Yes I don't like until the 80s.

[@stauffrt2]

Very happy you found the new SG to be “the one” for you. It’s amazing when that very nearly perfect one shows up. Took me almost 50 years before I stumbled across my version of “the one”.

[@501chorusecho]

Is it a Parker fly?

[@stauffrt2]

Funny. No it’s a Gibson.

[@501chorusecho]

@@stauffrt2 thank god

[@stauffrt2]

Indeed.

[@eblue9620]

The Parker Fly sounds to me like a cardboard box with rubber bands on it, no tone...of course Uncle Larry would make it sound amazing 😌

[@midnightsplusnoonsis730LEO]

Best free guitar skoolin on Earth ... thanks Unk ... just found you via Dean DeLeo via Saturn We Miss You ... and trippin up that wicked witch 🤙🏽🌅

[@mtantiques9384]

Remember going down 23 in my 63 Impala and chickening out at 110mph listening to Radar Love

[@MJ-kx4gq]

Yes sir!

[@3PLMAG]

This track is fucking siiiiiick!

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

Hey Jolly!! PLEASE edit us up some videos of only Tom's playing... from Homeskoolin series! I like all that he gives us here, but condensed UL would be amazing to re-watch. What an amazing weekend we could spend with our guitars with all that goodness to review. I'm surprised someone hasn't done it yet. Gladly donate for your time.

[@michaelsawyer6887]

" the radio's playin' some forgotten song".... Cool asf. 10 yrs old first time i heard it.

[@indifferentuniverse3991]

“Get you some wedges and play some rock n’ roll” - Tom Bokuvac

[@earlfarrior2100]

LOVE THE WAY YOU START THE VIDEOS. Energy for a Friday and coming weekend

[@delv2473]

Roxy music. When we were young. I forgot all about that song and rediscovered it a while back. When Ferry comes in after the break gives me goosebumps

[@501chorusecho]

that song is called "if there is something".....have you ever seen the movie "flashbacks of a fool"?....if not you must watch it TONIGHT

[@delv2473]

@@501chorusecho Ha! yes . I was just going to correct myself as I just listened to it . I will watch it . This song was also in a UK movie from a few years back about a family on holiday at the coast .Cant recall the name of the movie.Young romance sort of stuff. Not a classic but brought back memories of working class English family holidays.

[@delv2473]

So long since I saw it and forgot the name. Final scene is a heart breaker . When I said not a classic maybe my mind was thinking of another movie . Flashback was the one . . @@501chorusecho

[@travistalbertguitar]

You are absolutely right about the in ears ruining playing to the room. I have been off monitors all together for a couple years and I just do the old trick where if I want more of something I take a step towards that instrument. Also removes the inevitable situation where the sound engineer and I have to fight each other to the death mid soundcheck.

[@littlezephead]

If you haven’t read Pete Townsends book, definitely read it. It’s so good!! And what’s even better is the audiobook version read by him!

[@qjarman7753]

Dude, I get so much from watching your videos and just want to say thank you so much

[@chuckg3475]

yup, best all around talk and guitar pickin on the net! Thanks Bro

[@InspiretoVictory]

Ahhhhh!!!!! The Relayer album by Yes and Selling England by the Pound are in my top 5 greatest albums. I'll never forget, when I was 18, a friend sat me down in his apartment and had me listen to the Relayer album. My jaw was on the floor the whole time. It was a moment I realized that music could be something that I had never imagined. Afterwards, I would go to a music store in Wolcott, CT called Pheonix Records once a month and buy as many cds as I could from one band at a time. Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, King Crimson, Rush, Jeff Beck Group, etc. There's something special about that age of discovery.

[@teumuarikit601]

Man I love your raving and playing. Nice to have a bit of genuine on KZbin. Yeah you say things right.

[@anthonystrickland9870]

The more I listen to you, the more I’m convinced that our musical tastes are aligned. 👍

[@rocinblues]

Golden Earing.... awesome juice for the soul. Thanks..... Cheers!!

[@markmcnamara4322]

you can only be you. be yourself. you are way kool!!!!!!!!!!

[@gavinmacfarlane7044]

The Homeschoolin’ always, always cheers you up🫡

[@dwaynejessome1728]

Man, Thanks for being you. I really enjoyed this

[@natecordwell895]

My best friend - the same guy who turned me on to you during the Corona Sessions - we thought we didn’t like each other for years until he was there for me like no other friend was when I needed it. Now we’re brothers for life.

[@BorostateBlues]

Only channel I watch every episode of, Thanks man

[@themooseling]

Another nice viddie ✌️😀 they'll know you came there to play. Cool line

[@GertvanderDoes]

Golden Earring! Dutch national pride there! I come from a town about 10 miles from The Hague where they're from. They've been active until a couple of years ago when guitarist George Kooijmans got ALS. Really sad. Too many great people get ALS.

[@IDriveAnAudi]

This is AWESOME! I’ve got a blonde 50’s pine Custom Shop Fender Esquire on the UPS truck out for delivery right now!!! ❤😮😊

[@vayabroder729]

Enjoy!!

[@stringlocker]

Sweet

[@jolkraeremeark6949]

The ashtray and all, it's gone!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

“Chops vs. Feel” was a great video. I love the talking and the playing. Also I’m digging the Gruhn’s round table videos. And it’s hilarious when you tell some guy who really needs it to eff-off. With a lil flick o’ the bird. Lol 😂 And I can’t afford any of your garage sale items at this point in time so I’m always stoked to see someone can and they wind up with a great new guitar. My chick says I have enough anyway. 😂

[@markhaskinsmusic7637]

It’s been said that the best way to learn something is to teach it. I’ve found that to be true for me… do you agree Tom? Love, love, love the channel!!! Peace

[@Terry_Dale]

Radar Love for the win! You ROCK Uncle Larry! Love your channel, you make me smile every time..... 😜

[@treckerrr]

The Lamb is perfect! Last month I took my father and my godfather to see Steve Hackett here in Brazil. LOTS of Friday evenings as a kid by their side listening to every single Genesis record while they both talked shop. We all never had the chance to see Genesis live but, man, taking them to see Steve just before I turned 40 was awesome enough. Steve toured with a tribute band from Argentina called the Genetics and played the whole set from Seconds Out, so it was a very balanced meal.

[@marshallmouth]

“If we can separate him from his family and keep him out in the garage soldering all day, it will be a great gift for the world although not great for him personally”. So hilarious! We need more Ebo Reverb. Thank you Uncle Larry.

[@JaxonAasen]

Thanks for everything Tom you da man

[@perryslevin3267]

Whoa , at the end …. He just keeps giving us free awesomeness, Thank you Tom.

[@SH-pq5zq]

Hey, Tom. Love ur channel. It has totally inspired me to play more guitar, no doubt... question- of Peter Townsend is your 2nd fav guitar guy, why don't you play more of his stuff on your show? Thanks, from Connecticut.

[@estenray5385]

Hey Tom I totally agree with you on two comments you made and I’m sure much more but wedges are a must for live playing (play to the room!) and Badge is definitely my favorite Cream tune of all!😂

[@frankmccreary9050]

This was definitely one of my favorite ones uncle Larry. Toward the end, when you were talking about playing to the room and playing the kind of music that you want to play really spoke to me. I love these musical bullies that give you shit if you don't play some jazz crap that they dig or whatever. Everybody should do what their personality tells them to do. I say play like you play kids. And appreciate everybody else who does their own thing.

[@shemleg4409]

You are an honest dude who’s not afraid to say his opinion. Love the videos man!