[eleven59]

Changing the name of my band to "The Electronic Wang Arm" thanks to 3:30 :rofl:

 

[Jazzhands]

Neville Martin's electronic wang arm > Henry Kaiser's wang bar

 

[T Gobbs]

Neville Martin's electronic wang arm > Henry Kaiser's wang bar

#Freespacevacuum

 

[GentleHands McCoy]

Fuck yeah.

 

[scole]

Jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded an album with the SynthAxe around the same time:

 

[Naren]

Allan Holdsworth is the only guy I know who uses the SynthAxe. He's used it on practically every album since the mid 1980s to some degree to another. He's even released like 2 or 3 albums that use nothing but the SynthAxe. I've heard that he's always on the lookout to buy more of them since they're so rare nowadays.

 

[petarkablam]

Apparently, those things go between £10K and £15K.

 

[1]

This video makes me uncomfortable. Dude's deadpan delivery might have something to do with it.

 

[TheKindred]

"I've got about 5 minutes to tell you about the SynthAxe"

.... goes on for 15 min.

 

[Leon]

This video makes me uncomfortable. Dude's deadpan delivery might have something to do with it.

He's just so. excited. to be alive. and pitching this thing. on ludes.

 

[jim777]

Jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded an album with the SynthAxe around the same time:

Lee sold his to Roy Wooten (aka FutureMan, brother of Victor) who is the drummer for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. FutureMan used the synthaxe as his drumset for years He still uses a 'based on the synthaxe' thing to play the drums for the Flecktones.

 

[MFB]

Lee sold his to Roy Wooten (aka FutureMan, brother of Victor) who is the drummer for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. FutureMan used the synthaxe as his drumset for years He still uses a 'based on the synthaxe' thing to play the drums for the Flecktones.

Seriously, what in the fuck is going on here?

 

[eleven59]

I thought his drumitar looked familiar, but never made the connection that it's a modified SynthAxe until now.

 

[distressed_romeo]

Gary Moore had one at one point...

Re. Holdsworth, apparently his have been pretty much retired at this point, as he can't find anyone who's able to repair them and the ones he's got are too rickety to take on the road.

 

[Vince]

Am I the only one that thinks it's actually a well thought out and pretty cool instrument? I'd love to see an update.

 

[Jazzhands]

Am I the only one that thinks it's actually a well thought out and pretty cool instrument? I'd love to see an update.

The Fishman Triple Play is probably the closest we'll get to a Synthaxe.

 

[jacksonplayer]

The Fishman Triple Play is probably the closest we'll get to a Synthaxe.

Not so. Z7S | Starr Labs

Personally, I never thought Holdsworth did anything interesting with the SynthAxe. His choices of sounds for it were dreadful, and he lost so much of the beauty of his phrasing when he soloed with the SynthAxe.