Please never listen to anyone who says you should change your filming setup. The honesty of what you do is what we all love. It feels like we're hanging out with you and not just watching a TV show.
I've said the same. It's pure, to change it would likely be a loss even if technically better. I bet Tom either agrees, or doesn't care in that beautiful dismissive way.
The playing at the beginning was gorgeous. You managed to take a key that is full of cliches and avoid all of them. You made the key of E sound like a folk player in the key of C. I love how you do that with any key you happen to be in. You avoid the familiar and do something super creative and surprising.
Just can't believe that Nashville songwriters haven't been writing lyrics for some of these Homeskoolin lessons. Even if just as an exercise. Music so beautiful.
I really like it instrumental You'd be great for soundtracks to movies with that extra personal layer Check out David Torns music to the film Everything Must Go
Your videos and sound quality are excellent, Larry you’re like a 5 time pro bowl hall of fame safety but on Guitar …. you lay the wood when needed or lay back in coverage making sure there’s not bust. Larry I can never thank you enough for letting us into the amazing locker room of the professional guitar man. With much gratitude 🙏
Hey Tom. Story from yesteryear. I was working for Aggressive Sound and lights back in the 80’s. I running lights at Spanky’s East. It was Thursday ladies night. Packed house.Catch 22 was rocking the place. I ran the fog machine from the light board way back behind the sound board. The fog got stuck in the on position which proceeded to fill the venue. It took a few minutes to get to the stage to unplug the fog machine. Come break time I remember you and the rest of the band wiping oily fog juice off your equipment. I felt so bad. You all were really nice about it. Still felt bad. And that is my Tom story from years gone by.
Pierce is right...there is nothing good about Beck's passing. Except...somewhere, right now, some kid is sitting down and listening to Truth and Beck O-La and Loud Hailer. And having his/her mind blown. And then picking up a guitar. With resolve.
So true about the album game! I couldn’t get enough of Zeppelin IV as a kid and once spent an entire Saturday around the age of 12 or 13 learning the solo to Stairway To Heaven note for note by ear. Decades later, I still marvel at how much the DNA of my guitar playing branches outward from learning that solo and listening to that album on repeat during such a formative time…
There is no more beautiful sound than that of an old herringbone. When my grandfather passed his down to me and I strummed my first chord on that thing and felt the resonance, it absolutely took my breath away. I get more inspired every time I pick that thing up than when I pickup any of my other guitars
Im new here sir. Been watching all the your videos. Your playing really makes me wish id taken my guitar playing a lot more seriously years ago when i started. I still play constantly but Id give anything to have your skill and interpretation of music. Im a big fan brother.
Hey Tom ! One of the few jambs that you've put up that I thought I could tackle... I'm on it ! Thanks for sharing , I really enjoy your acoustic playing ! I've been on the Homeskoolin ride since the beginning days of the "Corona" lessons , thanks again for all your insights...priceless
I was 13 coming home from deer camp with dad late at night. I never thought much of music before that and I can remember hearing the keyboard solo to Light My Fire and was hypnotized by it. It was on repeat for the next few months whenever I was in my dad’s truck until he was sick of hearing it. Been hooked on music ever since.
at 13, tears for fears and the outfield, nowadays i've been listening to drew's cd. so heartfelt. Tom, homeskoolin is such a besutiful thing. Thank you always and forever
Tom, Thank you for all of your generosity. You are always an inspiration! This is likely not considered a "cover" by most, but my favorite cover song would have to be "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" written by Stevie Wonder and was first recorded by Syreeta Wright in 1974 on her album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta. Jeff Beck's performance of that song sent me down a life long journey of playing guitar. Thank You So Much JB Rest In Peace!!
That racing analogy was spot on. Playing live with 3 of my best friends in this life and pulling off a live show where we are all pushing our boundaries and “going for it” while locked in to what one another is playing is nothing short of magical.
Your acoustic leadin .... another example of your basic, beautiful melodic approach that you infuse into so much of your playing. It is simply inspiring, and i thank you for what you present to us. ❤❤
Beautiful sounds great .. total right about age 13 .. man all I did was play then ..never got anywhere in music past a local guy .. but it started at that magic age .. thank you for being such a humble inspiring person and taking us on ride we never would get to see without you .. your playing and content just amazing stuff
Age 13, Summer of ’79. Traveled to Germany with mom, received a boombox from Tante Marga and on the way back to the states, while waiting in Heathrow airport, mom bought me two cassettes; Dire Straits Communique and Thin Lizzy Black Rose. Also picked up two vinyl LPs, Alan Parsons Pyramid and Queen Live Killer’s. Those recordings left a life long lasting impression. Thanks U.L.
I was 13 in 1960, got my first guitar, a Silvertone acoustic, with money I saved from working for a farmer. I was inspired by the Ventures, James Burton with Ricky Nelson on Ozzie and Harriet, and Buddy Merril and Neil Lavange, on Lawrence Welk. I've been playing guitar non stop for 63 year. It's not a hobby, it's who you are. I found Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds and connected with him the most on Truth and Beckola.
Uncle Larry! I turned 13 in 1969. Just looked up the list of great bands and songs, damn! The list just goes on and on. I've been influenced by a huge swath of musical styles. Thanks for the reminder. Great advice on gear insurance, I am finally gonna do it this year!
Johnny Winters Captured Live Album for me. I saw the original tour in 1975 in Little Rock, AR.! What was the most rememberable part of the show to me was he played by himself it seem like an whole hour of delta blues with the slide on a stood. I grew up about 30 miles from Memphis and I've seen a lot bluesmen and had the luck in the fifth grade riding my bicycle around the local dance hall in Forrest city hearing a band warming up for a dance that night. My friend and I go in and their was a big guy playing a flying V on stage; so, I go up and tell the guy I play guitar (started when I was five years old)? He's asked me to come on up and play? He played with the strings upside down; so, I turned the V over and kicked the old song GLORIA with the band playing along. Well, after that the guy gave me and my friend a couple album's and signed them. Needless to say that fine gentleman was Mr. Albert King!
Thanks for sharing!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎸☮️❤️🙏…It’s awesome to have somebody sharing bits n pieces of the industry to all us amateurs… It’s nice to look in the window for awhile…
On the sharing of knowledge. I once had someone tell me: "Sharing knowledge is not like sharing an apple. When you share an apple. You get half an apple and the other person gets another half. When you share knowledge, you keep 100% of what you know and get to see what the other person does with what you taught them and learn from that too"
Right on the head ya nailed it, don't change a thing bud your on a roll. Our philosophical uncle has to be cherished. Tommy keep going your own way am hanging on for ma life. 🏴👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
I feel your pain I've had tinnitus since I was three years old. I can't remember what happened but pretty much ever since I can remember my ears have been ringing. Sometimes it can be distracting but mostly it's part of life you get used to it being there in the background of everything you hear. I have to have a box fan for sleep or the ringing will keep me awake.
I was 13 in 1983. Not too much exciting in music (without drum machines and synths) but I was listening to 60s music in the 80s when I was a teen, plus a little Van Halen, Chuck Mangione, Henry Mancini (I played saxophone and trumpet in high school band) Herb Albert, and Herbie Hancock. And mom always played Elvis, Conway, Dolly, Loretta, Lacy J Dalton, and more Elvis.
Man so cool so play gigs where Jeff Beck is on the bill. Sounds about right for a player of your caliber Uncle Larry. Glad to see you’re getting the respect your deserve. At 13 yrs old, it was all 3 Hendrix albums and any live Hendrix I could get my hands on. I wore out about 6 copies of Live at Isle or Wight…the Blue Wild Angel…I still think that version or Machine Gun is the best electric guitar playing I’ve ever heard. It’s just so effortlessly amazing it blows my mind every time after thousands of times listening to it. The Woodstock improvisation, including the solo at the end of Purple Haze is my other favorite live electric guitar track. So powerful it’s insane. The other records I was lucky to find were early Dylan records and my favorite non-rock player is Lenny Breau. I would play Lenny Breaus documentary over and over just to hear the music and his amazing story which I really relayed to. Funny you mention boiling the mouth guard to make the impressions in your teeth because I did that so many times for hockey. Really great video as usual Uncle Larry 👍🏼 my favorite TH-cam channel by a long shot. If this was the only TH-cam channel I’d be just fine with that.
@@501chorusecho thank you Uncle Larry. All your videos are a gift to all of us and I wish I could give more kind words because you deserve it. You’ve really helped me transition my playing to where I always wanted it to be and I feel like I’m finally on the right track thanks to you. I hope one day I can fly or drive down to Nashville and catch you playing a live gig. Thanks for appreciating my comments…it means a lot…
I LITERALLY texted my dad the other night and thanked him for taping the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and The Last Waltz in 1995. Good old Thurston was a ripe 13. In the same year he exposed me to Neil Young, Led Zeppelin (which I had already know), and The Band. I love me dad for many reasons. But this reason is up there.
"you get used to pretty much everything that's wrong with you in life after a while," Uncle Larry, I agree with you, just doing our best (I'm 71 and have been adapting all my life to one thing or another).
Hey, uncle Larry. I really like listening to you talking. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your playing. Like damn! But I really enjoy listening the your knowledge and stories. Cheers
re: bottling the experience of playing with the best musicians… reminded me of that Ralph Fiennes movie ‘Strange Days’ from 1995 where a former cop turned street hustler deals in illegal recordings (on minidisc) that give the user memories and sensations they otherwise couldn’t have. Great film!
Life got in the way of my Uncle Larry time recently! Catching up on some videos is good for my soul. Hoping we get to see more with you, Ann and the Dawgs this year. ✌🏼💜🎸
Well i for one, would gladly pay the cost of entry to sit in a dark corner of that studio with a set of cans on just to listen to all you masters at work. Uncle Larry you and your mates are genius players, but i suspect that one of the ways you become great, besides all the really hard work it takes, is to remain thankful, appreciative, humble at the wonder of it all. You have gratitude in spades. Sadly, knowing you have tinnitus helps me deal with it myself, but like you said, you get used to it. And lastly, DON"T you dare change the way you share video with us...its like we are all sitting around the table together enjoying a good chat and a beer. So very thankful for you.
I agree 100%. I've been working on this tune since I first discovered this video. I've got it pretty much down. But as great as my acoustic guitars sound, they still don't hold a candle to this old D18. Even with the compression that occurs when uploading to youtube, this guitar literally sounds better than most acoustics in person.
My 13 is “a nod is as good as a wink…” by the Faces. I remember being angry when Ronnie Wood left and joined the Stones! Also, first big concert I ever went to was the Faces.
You are lucky, and your talent and hard work are what has created that luck. We're lucky too to be able to vicariously learn about visceral experiences like you described about recording at Vince Gill's studio. That was cool. Thanks!
Another great one is gone. I saw Beck as a virtuoso violinist. Impeccable nuance. Somewhere someone may be listening to Jeff Beck for the first time and say “wow, I want to do that”. A star is born.
Hey tom , the content, the education. I love it all. Top shelf stuff. But what i love the most about homeskoolin is the tone. I too love the low rent aspect of capturing great guitar tone through a simple iphone. Its a tribute to the great technical brains of past and present. Its also kinda like listening to the recording of evh(vh1) through the drum overhead only. No studio magic. His sound was in the room. And so is yours. Dont change a thing!
Mine is Sonic Youth’s Sister LP, 1987. Life changing. 12 years old, middle of nowhere Nebraska, and the first airing of “Beauty Lies in the Eye” was late late Sunday night on 120 Minutes, spring of 1987. It only aired that one time but I was shaken to my core and tried to find that LP for months before the cassette finally hit the shelves. Absolutely nothing like that record.
i wish i had something smart to say tommy but i'm just aways hanging back enjoying it. these things are so lyrical but say more than any words could. i hope you keep it up for a long time.
I still think the music I listened to at 13 is great! But it took me decades to make my wake back to it. And you're right. that's the stuff that I remember every song on, and the songs that made the biggest impression on me.
Wow, you were in a deep state of mind doing this one; some takes on things that really made me think! My 13 y.o. albums of fascination were LPs from my Dad's collection, particularly late Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I spent hours listening to them with headphones lying on the lounge room carpet. I would probably choose either Abbey Road or Led Zepp IV for the naming challenge. Or OK Computer. I'm on holiday, spent a couple days recently playing new amps in my favourite guitar shop, and I definitely rip you off! But its also definitely not stealing, because its a faintest imitation of the genuine article, thats for damn sure!
"...this feeling of what it feels like, to play a take, in this chair with guys of this caliber.... How you gonna explain that to somebody at a dinner party?" Perfect!
I can only imagine what it’s like to make music on the level that you do…that said, I get where you’re coming from. The feeling that you get when making music with others, and playing off of each other is a great feeling.
In the dead of the night it drives me mad. It's like some industrial machine pumping away. Gotta have some radio/podcast on before I can get some sleep.
@@denmar355 When I'm in a noisy bar I can't hear a word anyone is saying in front of me but I can clearly pick up conversation from 10 feet behind me, And live music beyond moderate levels drives me out of a joint. It just sounds like a painful assault on what's left of my hearing....there's nothing 'musical' to it!
I have to add, even with hearing aids (I have otosclerosis to boot) even WITH hearing aids, tinnitus rules all. My heart goes out to all you sufferers! We're not alone, obviously! Keep rockin' anyway!
2112 and Grand Illusion were the first two albums I ever bought with my own money. I was in 5th grade I think. I would sit on the floor of my room with the album sleve and listen to those records over and over. Thanks for reminding me of those times :)
I feel for the guy who had his guitar stolen. I know how it feels and it sucks so hard. Especially when you don’t really have the means to replace it. The thing that got me through was the generosity of others. Someone gave me a guitar that wasn’t really my style, but I loved it dearly because of the sentiment behind it. It’ll take a moment, but the feeling of suck and injustice does eventually go away.
Uncle Larry, saw a video of you producing Drew Winn and the way you changed the strum pattern on the song changed the whole feel of it. Amazing to see artistry at work. Wow!!
Wow Uncle Larry you are so right on the album thing. I can come close on maybe a dozen albums but the one that jumped to mind immediately is Dire Straits' first album and Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill is a very close 2nd. There is no hope for me. Love that opening track man. Thanks Larry.
Uncle Larry, I think I love your acoustic playing the best. Always reminds me to focus much more on my right hand, which is embarrassingly clumsy and prone to sloppy exuberance. Too easy to get carried away. You didn't ask but my compulsory labor on the farm started at age 11 but the benefit was taking my first $120 and buying a stereo and some records. So my first record was CSN, then American Woman, Beatles (wore out Abbey Road) Beach Boys, Three Dog Night. So the pattern looks like vocals and vocal harmony. Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers followed. 45s were usually Motown. But you're 100% right; I still love and defend those records and am stupidly resistant to friends who are enthusiastic about their own core musical identities. I just can't get into them to the same degree.
I am laughing so hard, just like a dad, if I ever saw my boys doing what I did, I would slap them silly. Another would be you cant fool the ole fooler...Love your wit and wisdom almost as much as your playing!
Ah, that was so nice. It's not just music. I believe that at thirteen, if something is going to bite you, that's the deepest it's teeth will ever be able to sink. Oh, kids got great taste. "South Side Of The Sky" was hands down my favorite Yes song when I was a kid. Maybe it's something about the steady pulse in the melody . . .
It all makes so much sense now, somehow over the years the music that I love always had a steely Dan influence. Please can you show us what you like of them? Uncle L. I think the younger generation need to hear what they were doing, before it’s lost.
Please never listen to anyone who says you should change your filming setup. The honesty of what you do is what we all love. It feels like we're hanging out with you and not just watching a TV show.
Amen bud...i always think the same thing then he reacts and im all Ga Gewnshh...!...thanks for being like minded...👍😁...
I've said the same. It's pure, to change it would likely be a loss even if technically better. I bet Tom either agrees, or doesn't care in that beautiful dismissive way.
Hear hear!
Giddy up!
Totally and absolutely agree
The playing at the beginning was gorgeous. You managed to take a key that is full of cliches and avoid all of them. You made the key of E sound like a folk player in the key of C. I love how you do that with any key you happen to be in. You avoid the familiar and do something super creative and surprising.
thank you bro
Just can't believe that Nashville songwriters haven't been writing lyrics for some of these Homeskoolin lessons. Even if just as an exercise. Music so beautiful.
@@argus8888 that song is begging for a vocal. Amazing Melody. Call Jedd!
I really like it instrumental
You'd be great for soundtracks to movies with that extra personal layer
Check out David Torns music to the film Everything Must Go
Ditto. I loved the intro. It sounded like a song I love yet a song I’ve never heard.
Your videos and sound quality are excellent, Larry you’re like a 5 time pro bowl hall of fame safety but on Guitar …. you lay the wood when needed or lay back in coverage making sure there’s not bust. Larry I can never thank you enough for letting us into the amazing locker room of the professional guitar man. With much gratitude 🙏
haahaaaaa this might be my all-time favorite comment...thank you bro
Beck never became an oldies act, always stayed ahead of the curve and fresh. Havent been many like that.
Holy crap, Uncle Larry, that opening number is one of the most perfect pieces of music I've ever heard.
Hey Tom. Story from yesteryear. I was working for Aggressive Sound and lights back in the 80’s. I running lights at Spanky’s East. It was Thursday ladies night. Packed house.Catch 22 was rocking the place. I ran the fog machine from the light board way back behind the sound board. The fog got stuck in the on position which proceeded to fill the venue. It took a few minutes to get to the stage to unplug the fog machine. Come break time I remember you and the rest of the band wiping oily fog juice off your equipment. I felt so bad. You all were really nice about it. Still felt bad. And that is my Tom story from years gone by.
You’re a deep cat uncle Larry. Thanks for inspiring us.
Pierce is right...there is nothing good about Beck's passing. Except...somewhere, right now, some kid is sitting down and listening to Truth and Beck O-La and Loud Hailer. And having his/her mind blown. And then picking up a guitar. With resolve.
This is something I was thinking about all day
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So there is hope? Good.
Always hope. Jeff will jam with the other legends again.
"With resolve." just right.
That acoustic sounds so damn good.
This one is beyond great.... awesome melody!!!!
So true about the album game! I couldn’t get enough of Zeppelin IV as a kid and once spent an entire Saturday around the age of 12 or 13 learning the solo to Stairway To Heaven note for note by ear. Decades later, I still marvel at how much the DNA of my guitar playing branches outward from learning that solo and listening to that album on repeat during such a formative time…
Thank you! Have a blessed day.
Bruh, that opening acoustic piece of music is phenomenal. Keep on pickin Uncle Larry. Greetings from Alabama
There is no more beautiful sound than that of an old herringbone. When my grandfather passed his down to me and I strummed my first chord on that thing and felt the resonance, it absolutely took my breath away. I get more inspired every time I pick that thing up than when I pickup any of my other guitars
Im new here sir. Been watching all the your videos. Your playing really makes me wish id taken my guitar playing a lot more seriously years ago when i started. I still play constantly but Id give anything to have your skill and interpretation of music. Im a big fan brother.
Dream sound right there. If it sounds incredible coming through lil iPhone speakers… thanks for all you do uncle.
Love ya, brother. You’re good for the soul! 🎸🐶
love you too guitar dog
Hey Tom ! One of the few jambs that you've put up that I thought I could tackle... I'm on it ! Thanks for sharing , I really enjoy your acoustic playing ! I've been on the Homeskoolin ride since the beginning days of the "Corona" lessons , thanks again for all your insights...priceless
I was 13 coming home from deer camp with dad late at night. I never thought much of music before that and I can remember hearing the keyboard solo to Light My Fire and was hypnotized by it. It was on repeat for the next few months whenever I was in my dad’s truck until he was sick of hearing it. Been hooked on music ever since.
at 13, tears for fears and the outfield, nowadays i've been listening to drew's cd. so heartfelt. Tom, homeskoolin is such a besutiful thing. Thank you always and forever
Dude….that opening piece has inspiration written all over it. Ty man!
Tom, Thank you for all of your generosity. You are always an inspiration! This is likely not considered a "cover" by most, but my favorite cover song would have to be "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" written by Stevie Wonder and was first recorded by Syreeta Wright in 1974 on her album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta. Jeff Beck's performance of that song sent me down a life long journey of playing guitar. Thank You So Much JB Rest In Peace!!
That racing analogy was spot on. Playing live with 3 of my best friends in this life and pulling off a live show where we are all pushing our boundaries and “going for it” while locked in to what one another is playing is nothing short of magical.
Uncle Larry is always a good hang when all you really need is a good hang🤙
It’s also cool to hear you appreciate the moment, I’ve never heard you not appreciate the moment, it’s cool to see it
Your acoustic leadin .... another example of your basic, beautiful melodic approach that you infuse into so much of your playing. It is simply inspiring, and i thank you for what you present to us. ❤❤
Yes sir. Thank you
Beautiful sounds great .. total right about age 13 .. man all I did was play then ..never got anywhere in music past a local guy .. but it started at that magic age .. thank you for being such a humble inspiring person and taking us on ride we never would get to see without you .. your playing and content just amazing stuff
Wicked awesome ! ... Thanks Brotha Love Bone ! ..... Jore da best
Age 13, Summer of ’79. Traveled to Germany with mom, received a boombox from Tante Marga and on the way back to the states, while waiting in Heathrow airport, mom bought me two cassettes; Dire Straits Communique and Thin Lizzy Black Rose. Also picked up two vinyl LPs, Alan Parsons Pyramid and Queen Live Killer’s. Those recordings left a life long lasting impression. Thanks U.L.
I was 13 in 1960, got my first guitar, a Silvertone acoustic, with money I saved from working for a farmer. I was inspired by the Ventures, James Burton with Ricky Nelson on Ozzie and Harriet, and Buddy Merril and Neil Lavange, on Lawrence Welk. I've been playing guitar non stop for 63 year. It's not a hobby, it's who you are. I found Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds and connected with him the most on Truth and Beckola.
Uncle Larry! I turned 13 in 1969. Just looked up the list of great bands and songs, damn! The list just goes on and on. I've been influenced by a huge swath of musical styles. Thanks for the reminder. Great advice on gear insurance, I am finally gonna do it this year!
Johnny Winters Captured Live Album for me. I saw the original tour in 1975 in Little Rock, AR.! What was the most rememberable part of the show to me was he played by himself it seem like an whole hour of delta blues with the slide on a stood. I grew up about 30 miles from Memphis and I've seen a lot bluesmen and had the luck in the fifth grade riding my bicycle around the local dance hall in Forrest city hearing a band warming up for a dance that night. My friend and I go in and their was a big guy playing a flying V on stage; so, I go up and tell the guy I play guitar (started when I was five years old)? He's asked me to come on up and play? He played with the strings upside down; so, I turned the V over and kicked the old song GLORIA with the band playing along. Well, after that the guy gave me and my friend a couple album's and signed them. Needless to say that fine gentleman was Mr. Albert King!
My level of respect for you just doubled when you made the comment about Steely Dan.
Thanks for sharing!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎸☮️❤️🙏…It’s awesome to have somebody sharing bits n pieces of the industry to all us amateurs… It’s nice to look in the window for awhile…
On the sharing of knowledge. I once had someone tell me:
"Sharing knowledge is not like sharing an apple.
When you share an apple. You get half an apple and the other person gets another half.
When you share knowledge, you keep 100% of what you know and get to see what the other person does with what you taught them and learn from that too"
Right on the head ya nailed it, don't change a thing bud your on a roll. Our philosophical uncle has to be cherished. Tommy keep going your own way am hanging on for ma life. 🏴👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate.
Please don’t change a thing about your videos. I love the unedited, impromptu nature of these sessions.
I feel your pain I've had tinnitus since I was three years old. I can't remember what happened but pretty much ever since I can remember my ears have been ringing. Sometimes it can be distracting but mostly it's part of life you get used to it being there in the background of everything you hear.
I have to have a box fan for sleep or the ringing will keep me awake.
I was 13 in 1983. Not too much exciting in music (without drum machines and synths) but I was listening to 60s music in the 80s when I was a teen, plus a little Van Halen, Chuck Mangione, Henry Mancini (I played saxophone and trumpet in high school band) Herb Albert, and Herbie Hancock. And mom always played Elvis, Conway, Dolly, Loretta, Lacy J Dalton, and more Elvis.
Man so cool so play gigs where Jeff Beck is on the bill. Sounds about right for a player of your caliber Uncle Larry. Glad to see you’re getting the respect your deserve.
At 13 yrs old, it was all 3 Hendrix albums and any live Hendrix I could get my hands on. I wore out about 6 copies of Live at Isle or Wight…the Blue Wild Angel…I still think that version or Machine Gun is the best electric guitar playing I’ve ever heard. It’s just so effortlessly amazing it blows my mind every time after thousands of times listening to it. The Woodstock improvisation, including the solo at the end of Purple Haze is my other favorite live electric guitar track. So powerful it’s insane. The other records I was lucky to find were early Dylan records and my favorite non-rock player is Lenny Breau. I would play Lenny Breaus documentary over and over just to hear the music and his amazing story which I really relayed to.
Funny you mention boiling the mouth guard to make the impressions in your teeth because I did that so many times for hockey. Really great video as usual Uncle Larry 👍🏼 my favorite TH-cam channel by a long shot. If this was the only TH-cam channel I’d be just fine with that.
rock on brother.....thanks for the kind words
@@501chorusecho thank you Uncle Larry. All your videos are a gift to all of us and I wish I could give more kind words because you deserve it. You’ve really helped me transition my playing to where I always wanted it to be and I feel like I’m finally on the right track thanks to you. I hope one day I can fly or drive down to Nashville and catch you playing a live gig. Thanks for appreciating my comments…it means a lot…
I LITERALLY texted my dad the other night and thanked him for taping the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and The Last Waltz in 1995. Good old Thurston was a ripe 13. In the same year he exposed me to Neil Young, Led Zeppelin (which I had already know), and The Band.
I love me dad for many reasons. But this reason is up there.
"you get used to pretty much everything that's wrong with you in life after a while," Uncle Larry, I agree with you, just doing our best (I'm 71 and have been adapting all my life to one thing or another).
This is my favorite episode. Thanks Tom!
Awesome Uncle Larry. Perfect👍
This needs to be on an album
Love the iPhone, unproduced, casual atmosphere video style since day 1. Please don't change anything. Feels like video chatting with a good friend. 👍
Hey, uncle Larry. I really like listening to you talking.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your playing. Like damn! But I really enjoy listening the your knowledge and stories.
Cheers
thank you bro
I agree w burnsy55, content is king. We are greatful for the free, raw lessons, tips, tricks and wisdom. DI not necessary.
So true Tom... I was 13 when I started playing drums then Blow By Blow came out and blew my mind in 75' !
re: bottling the experience of playing with the best musicians… reminded me of that Ralph Fiennes movie ‘Strange Days’ from 1995 where a former cop turned street hustler deals in illegal recordings (on minidisc) that give the user memories and sensations they otherwise couldn’t have. Great film!
Life got in the way of my Uncle Larry time recently! Catching up on some videos is good for my soul. Hoping we get to see more with you, Ann and the Dawgs this year. ✌🏼💜🎸
Hey Tom, my Tele and I thank you for that intro #
...just love that Bmaj all day 'till next Tues. and beyond.........
yup! love it
I love the tune and really love how that guitar sounds!
SWEET!... Siskel and Ebert give it two thumbs up and so do I. 👍👍
Good ole Uncle Larry! I'm really glad I've found your channel. Loving it .Thanks for doing it .
Jones’n to listen “Plexi soul”. Thanks for all the encouragement you bring to the Tube, Uncle Larry!
Well i for one, would gladly pay the cost of entry to sit in a dark corner of that studio with a set of cans on just to listen to all you masters at work. Uncle Larry you and your mates are genius players, but i suspect that one of the ways you become great, besides all the really hard work it takes, is to remain thankful, appreciative, humble at the wonder of it all. You have gratitude in spades. Sadly, knowing you have tinnitus helps me deal with it myself, but like you said, you get used to it. And lastly, DON"T you dare change the way you share video with us...its like we are all sitting around the table together enjoying a good chat and a beer. So very thankful for you.
That intro what fantastic 🍻
The intro peice is so good
I agree 100%. I've been working on this tune since I first discovered this video. I've got it pretty much down. But as great as my acoustic guitars sound, they still don't hold a candle to this old D18. Even with the compression that occurs when uploading to youtube, this guitar literally sounds better than most acoustics in person.
My 13 is “a nod is as good as a wink…” by the Faces. I remember being angry when Ronnie Wood left and joined the Stones! Also, first big concert I ever went to was the Faces.
Just absolutely beautiful playing man... everything is a song
You are lucky, and your talent and hard work are what has created that luck. We're lucky too to be able to vicariously learn about visceral experiences like you described about recording at Vince Gill's studio. That was cool. Thanks!
I probably own most of the records Jeff Beck ever put out. My all time favorite guitarist. What an amazingly musical career he had!
Beautiful melody, Tom. Great way to wake up. thanks!
The music WILL always be there.. love love love
Thanks for keeping it real Mon Oncle Larry ❤
Another great one is gone. I saw Beck as a virtuoso violinist. Impeccable nuance. Somewhere someone may be listening to Jeff Beck for the first time and say “wow, I want to do that”. A star is born.
My Mum worked at RCA records in my teens in the mid 70s and 80s and she brought home so many vinyl records ,albums and singles.
Hey tom , the content, the education. I love it all. Top shelf stuff. But what i love the most about homeskoolin is the tone. I too love the low rent aspect of capturing great guitar tone through a simple iphone. Its a tribute to the great technical brains of past and present. Its also kinda like listening to the recording of evh(vh1) through the drum overhead only. No studio magic. His sound was in the room. And so is yours. Dont change a thing!
I just love these conversations about life and music (in addition to the awesome playing), Uncle Larry kicks butt!!!
Mine is Sonic Youth’s Sister LP, 1987. Life changing. 12 years old, middle of nowhere Nebraska, and the first airing of “Beauty Lies in the Eye” was late late Sunday night on 120 Minutes, spring of 1987. It only aired that one time but I was shaken to my core and tried to find that LP for months before the cassette finally hit the shelves. Absolutely nothing like that record.
Love the acoustic song very pretty
i wish i had something smart to say tommy but i'm just aways hanging back enjoying it. these things are so lyrical but say more than any words could. i hope you keep it up for a long time.
Thanks for opening up your beautiful soul in every video 🕉️
I can't speak for anyone else but you're the Bubba I never had. Thanks.
I still think the music I listened to at 13 is great! But it took me decades to make my wake back to it. And you're right. that's the stuff that I remember every song on, and the songs that made the biggest impression on me.
Incredible content, you keep nailing this stuff, find myself consistently shaking my head in agreement
Would love to see or hear anything you guys record with Vince on lead. Love his phrasing. Incredible
Wow, you were in a deep state of mind doing this one; some takes on things that really made me think! My 13 y.o. albums of fascination were LPs from my Dad's collection, particularly late Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I spent hours listening to them with headphones lying on the lounge room carpet. I would probably choose either Abbey Road or Led Zepp IV for the naming challenge. Or OK Computer. I'm on holiday, spent a couple days recently playing new amps in my favourite guitar shop, and I definitely rip you off! But its also definitely not stealing, because its a faintest imitation of the genuine article, thats for damn sure!
"...this feeling of what it feels like, to play a take, in this chair with guys of this caliber.... How you gonna explain that to somebody at a dinner party?" Perfect!
I can only imagine what it’s like to make music on the level that you do…that said, I get where you’re coming from. The feeling that you get when making music with others, and playing off of each other is a great feeling.
I've had tinnitus for over 40 years! You DO get used to it...actually you learn to hear THROUGH it. But it does get louder in complete silence.
In the dead of the night it drives me mad. It's like some industrial machine pumping away. Gotta have some radio/podcast on before I can get some sleep.
I’m with you. Drives me crazy! I have to have noise in headphones to get distracted and go to sleep.
@@denmar355 When I'm in a noisy bar I can't hear a word anyone is saying in front of me but I can clearly pick up conversation from 10 feet behind me, And live music beyond moderate levels drives me out of a joint. It just sounds like a painful assault on what's left of my hearing....there's nothing 'musical' to it!
@@henryb160 We have a noisy fan in the bedroom, I turn it on when I go to bed, runs all night and I can't sleep without it.
I have to add, even with hearing aids (I have otosclerosis to boot) even WITH hearing aids, tinnitus rules all. My heart goes out to all you sufferers! We're not alone, obviously! Keep rockin' anyway!
2112 and Grand Illusion were the first two albums I ever bought with my own money. I was in 5th grade I think. I would sit on the floor of my room with the album sleve and listen to those records over and over. Thanks for reminding me of those times :)
Unreal dynamics and feel. You the man Tommy B
I feel for the guy who had his guitar stolen. I know how it feels and it sucks so hard. Especially when you don’t really have the means to replace it. The thing that got me through was the generosity of others. Someone gave me a guitar that wasn’t really my style, but I loved it dearly because of the sentiment behind it. It’ll take a moment, but the feeling of suck and injustice does eventually go away.
Really great episode, Tom! That guitar tone is stellar.
Uncle Larry, saw a video of you producing Drew Winn and the way you changed the strum pattern on the song changed the whole feel of it. Amazing to see artistry at work. Wow!!
Thanks Tom
Wow Uncle Larry you are so right on the album thing. I can come close on maybe a dozen albums but the one that jumped to mind immediately is Dire Straits' first album and Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill is a very close 2nd. There is no hope for me. Love that opening track man. Thanks Larry.
Great post, thanks for the insight! 👍
Uncle Larry, I think I love your acoustic playing the best. Always reminds me to focus much more on my right hand, which is embarrassingly clumsy and prone to sloppy exuberance. Too easy to get carried away. You didn't ask but my compulsory labor on the farm started at age 11 but the benefit was taking my first $120 and buying a stereo and some records. So my first record was CSN, then American Woman, Beatles (wore out Abbey Road) Beach Boys, Three Dog Night. So the pattern looks like vocals and vocal harmony. Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers followed. 45s were usually Motown. But you're 100% right; I still love and defend those records and am stupidly resistant to friends who are enthusiastic about their own core musical identities. I just can't get into them to the same degree.
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I am laughing so hard, just like a dad, if I ever saw my boys doing what I did, I would slap them silly. Another would be you cant fool the ole fooler...Love your wit and wisdom almost as much as your playing!
Ah, that was so nice. It's not just music. I believe that at thirteen, if something is going to bite you, that's the deepest it's teeth will ever be able to sink. Oh, kids got great taste. "South Side Of The Sky" was hands down my favorite Yes song when I was a kid. Maybe it's something about the steady pulse in the melody . . .
Thank you Tom!!
Incredibly rich sounding acoustic!
I remember that melody from some years ago, one of the best I have ever heard.
It all makes so much sense now, somehow over the years the music that I love always had a steely Dan influence. Please can you show us what you like of them? Uncle L. I think the younger generation need to hear what they were doing, before it’s lost.