Detroit native Larry Welker, along with his good friend Glenn Frey, moved to California out of a lifelong love of guitar playing in the heydays of the sixties, where he met and worked with many renowned artists whose names have since become world famous. During this time he toured nationally with such famous artists as Charlie Musselwhite. The list of famous guitarists who have consulted Larry on their guitar sound over the years includes Eric Clapton, Glenn Frey, Jerry Garcia, J.D. Souther, Bob Seger, and many other guitarists who have ultimately become well known for their unique guitar sounds. Larry chuckles today when he hears a riff he taught Glenn soaring through an Eagles song.

He met and married his wife Kathleen during this time and in the mid-eighties the pair moved to New Hampshire where he opened up shop doing lutherie and antique furniture restoration, but always kept playing and recording with local musicians in the home based midi studio he designed and built.