chris larkin club

[cosmicevan]

Hello out there,

Here's what I got over a span of 26 years from the late Chris Larkin.

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If you'd like to know anything about these basses, just go ahaead and ask.

Anyway, a friend and myself are collecting information on Chris's instruments to get a Chris Larkin owners / instruments database. In the end there should be a website and maybe a book.

So if anyone out there wants to share his pics, stories, videos, releases and information, please get in touch with me.

My basses and Geert's guitars (he has a couple, too) are quite a good start, but I'd be happy to hear your story.

Cheers,
Christoph

Wow, never seen many of those body shapes...were they one offs for you or new models he’s tried. He builds with such intense quality.

 

[Christoph Navratil]

The Razerbird (bottom left) and the VEE II were one offs. Chris built these to designs I made. The ASAP DBass (top left) has the shape of Chris's acoustic guitars and is a one off, too, he built for a friend who sold it to me.
The green one in the back row is a Syra bass and the other four are Reacters built from 1992 to 2001 - middle front 5-string fretless in 1992, right of it 4-string fretted in 1996, left of it 5-string fretted in 1997 and a custom (archtop) 5-string fretless in 2001. On the far right is a Blen EBU, that Chris used to build for some years, but were not available during the last couple of years. Mine is from 1997.

 

[cosmicevan]

The Razerbird (bottom left) and the VEE II were one offs. Chris built these to designs I made. The ASAP DBass (top left) has the shape of Chris's acoustic guitars and is a one off, too, he built for a friend who sold it to me.
The green one in the back row is a Syra bass and the other four are Reacters built from 1992 to 2001 - middle front 5-string fretless in 1992, right of it 4-string fretted in 1996, left of it 5-string fretted in 1997 and a custom (archtop) 5-string fretless in 2001. On the far right is a Blen EBU, that Chris used to build for some years, but were not available during the last couple of years. Mine is from 1997.

Chris was always cool about building what you wanted. The times I had encountered him, I was working with a start up in Manhattan called JoeyGMusic that never got off the ground for some very unfortunate reasons...but Chris was big time involved as a consultant and I would almost consider him one of the true godfathers of the handmade bass movement as that all went down as the whole thing was first staring to explode and take off in the early 2000s. The moves made by Joe Gershberg from Joey G’s were way ahead of his time and I feel really crafted the direction...at least aesthetically for what the bass industry has become.