Is This the WILDEST Guitar Ever Made? 

I remember a band called "Orgy" and they rocked this guitar... I think they even had a signature model, but that was around 1999-2003 so I can't remember very well...

I want to hear it in the SY-1000. DO IT!! This guitar shape is so wild ahaha

I got one of these guitars , for sitting position I put one of the steinberger leg rests on it, I found it for about $12 on eBay and now it's perfect when sitting with it and the leg rest folds away when standing up

I still play a G-707 (and a G-505) every week in a working band. I have the GR-700 and GR-300 as well. The 300 slays the 700, as far as playability and tracking is concerned, but typically I use them as regular guitars. The design of the stabilizer bar (or handle) is meant to increase mass for a more solid tone, less “dead spots” on the neck, which probably wasn’t as much of an issue as they anticipated. It’s not that it confuses a “digital brain”, as you put it, but more of an analog pitch to voltage converter. Once the note is established as a control voltage, the conversion to digital/MIDI isn’t that crazy. Analog P/V is tricky though. Nice Pat Travers homage.

I had one of these in the early 2000s. I also had the GR300 floor synth. It was cool, but finicky. Great for recording, but not easy to use live. I ended up selling it for a Duojet. I miss it, but the Gretsch is better. Thanks for the memories!

I have a silver one. I love the “just” guitar part… the neck is insane! And the sustain is never ending. I use it as my Les Paul sub.

so the same fujigen factory produced an improved version for ibanez called the IMG 2010 (aka "x-ing").It was basically superior in every way except (arguably) aesthetically. it had a graphite reinforced neck, so no stabilizer bar. It was headless, the pickups were a little more mellow (or brighter, depending on who you ask) the bridge was incredibly stable. the individual hex pickup elements were staggered and isolated from the traditional pickups, had tremendously improved tracking and best of all it had a "tremolo" that was fully digital, so rather than bending or pulling strings out of tune it sent midi sysex or cv pitch information over the gk interface. This was intended to be a part of the g-707 but it was scrapped last minute due to deadlines but the tremolo is essentially a spring retained potentiometer and it actually works with the gr-700 out of the box(because it was already engineered for that feature.)If you've never seen it check it out on reverb they show up fairly regularly at decent prices. they play beautifully too. I've had two in my life and I would not trade them for anything (one was stolen though)

The handle design was to abate neck vibration which causing unwanted sound.

Why do you not have more subscribers! Great content

I love those. Played one in a store back in the day. And, umm, not that you kare-ler, but a Kahler has fine tuners, so this isn't one.

the one you have is in a lot better shape then mine ;). love mine

Thank you sir great demo. I gotta buy one, they look so cool

Just scored a black one to go with my GR700, but OMG the red one is GORGEOUS!!

Late to the party, but I'm interested in information on the GR 24 pin to GK 13 pin adapter to use the '80s Roland guitars with my dusty crusty GP-10.

hey Danny where's the whammy? I love the whammy bars on my G707s. Thanks for this fine video. There is one issue I have had with the G707, strings breaking at the bridge.

Mine is red. I don't think I've ever seen another one. It is indeed an excellent guitar.

I have one! This is a great video about a cool 80s guitar , adding I have a gr55 synth and an old gr300 synthesizer ,,so I think you really gotta try the synth part out,,, you'll probably enjoy it !!

I was given one of these - unfortunately the synth board it came with doesn't seem to work. It is a solid sounding guitar and feels pretty nice (standing up).

Cool Danny! This is a crazy guitar!

Did you keep this? I looked through your videos to see if you did a follow-up on the midi out but I couldn't find one. One of these guitars is listed on my local marketplace for 500 right now and I'm seriously considering it

I've seen Ace Frehley with one but that's it.

I missed the synth part of the guitar

Omg I can't believe you only have 445 subs and not 445 thousand

Keep it in frame for the whole time!

What’s it weigh

*HAVE YOU **_"SEEN......"_* What a 707 is currently selling for, in the open market in June of 2024?!!? *ANYWAY KEEP ON KEEPING ON BROTHER ROCKER!!!!!* 😎🤘🏼

That's the kind of guitar you would see in a parallel universe to earth

The handle is designed to make more difficult to play it. Even stand up this guitar is not really comfy to play. This is an amazing lutherie guitar, nails the Gibson Les Paul sound. However the avant-guarde design ruined it. Was ~ 3500 USD (with the GR707) back in 1984, discontinued after 4 years of production. A true flop. Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith and Dave Murray used it on 1986' Somewhere in Time album. All synth sounds were made with this. But they never used it live. Too poor playability design and has quite a latency, that made it not enough reliable.

Sigue sigue sputnik

The Network uses this

QUIT YACKING AND PLAY IT. DISAPPOINTED

That's not a Kahler, that's not even close to a Kahler! ... (🫢)

Speaking of Roland guitar synths, I much prefer any the much more traditional looking guitar controlers for the GR 300 which also work with the G 700. Ι don't go much for cartoonish looking guitars.