That's a super-funky way to say "hey, look at my cool gear"

''slightly modified synth-axe''

@Neearm

5 жыл бұрын

I used to make the bodies and heads for these. What has he done to it?

@thecianinator

2 жыл бұрын

@@Neearm from the looks of it, he painted and bedazzled it. Actually on closer inspection, it looks like he added a shitload of extra buttons on it and maybe even incorporated control hardware into the body. What can you tell us about the construction of Synthaxes? I think they're really cool

@zanshinmartialartscenter5238

Жыл бұрын

​@@Neearm 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮ccc from😮😢😮😮😮😮

@Neearm

Жыл бұрын

@@thecianinator The body was a glass fibre shell over an aluminium chassis. The neck was an aluminium extrusion with each fret split into six pieces to make it possible to bend notes. I think the keys were injection moulded. The workshop was above the Trojan Records HQ in West London.

@clayperdue1798

11 ай бұрын

​@@NeearmI don't want to bash the guy, but he could have designed a custom drum machine without destroying a priceless and irreplaceable SynthAxe...

that's my drum teacher!

@GreenToMe2000

5 жыл бұрын

Jake Rosen NO. WAY.

@clotheslineawesome

4 жыл бұрын

Victor Wooten's brother

I'm not lying at all I went to Kerrville Texas music camp this year and future man Roy was one of the teachers and I got to play my French horn with him!!!!!

@MyTallTripod

8 жыл бұрын

That's great! :D

Stopped dead in the middle of a Bela Fleck album to find out how tf a synthax drum set works. Not disappointed at all

this guy REALLY LOVES drums

@xHeadcleanerx

11 ай бұрын

Have you seen his brother's drum guitar??????/

Why do things the way people think they should be done? I think he's excellent.

@maxkolbl1527

5 жыл бұрын

I see what you want to say, but I argue that this is exactly how things should be done because it's awesome and things should always be done the awesome way

I want an acoustic drum set that sounds like an ukulele

A 1980s Synthaxe, torn apart with a bunch of triggers glue to it.

That SynthAxe was rescued by Mad Max?

@user-kk4bo5dm8j

7 жыл бұрын

or took steroids

@TheMoistpotato

3 жыл бұрын

Or dragged thru a dumpster at a kids daycare after being covered in glue.

wow...he modded the crap outta that synthaxe !!!

Every genius has come crazy in it...

The perfect reference for this crazy man's instrument

Loved his work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

@vastwasteland77

3 жыл бұрын

That IS Bela Fleck on the banjo, other side of the stage.

Futureman: Blowing you mind since after you were born

@dennisloobman8013

4 ай бұрын

"I don't have to pay taxes, I'm from the future" 🤪

Wow - saw the Wooton Brothers last night. Wonderful - a night to remember for sure

The Wooten's... a family of musical genius :-)

@ashidbt9164

8 жыл бұрын

yea it is

this is good quality footage for 2009

this guy perved out on my mom many years ago. banger instrument though

Lovely. Thank you for sharing.

This is art

Maybe that thing will be in a museum someday.

@bonnievanasse8992

3 жыл бұрын

It’s in a museum in Arizona actually. (Musical instruments museum... along with one of his hats;)

@RemiBrawler Big Country is there if you look for it. It won't let me post the link here in the comments. Hope you like it.

Pretty sure you are supposed to watch this at 1.5 speed.

COOL STUFF he is amazing

FUTURE MAN FOREVER

Have you ever seen him live with the Flecktones? Amazing musicians!

@lorraineyonts

Жыл бұрын

Yes! In Seattle, about 20 years ago.

rocking!

No doubt. Is Jack Sparrow with a weird Guitar-Hero gear made of Play-doh. I'm sure.

@thomasromano9321

6 жыл бұрын

Play-doh? Hardly. Future Man invented that instrument. I'd call it genius. Especially since he can duplicate the sound of cymbals both high-hat and low hat, bass, and other percussive instruments just with his invention.

@littlesnowflakepunk855

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasromano9321 Not really his invention. It's a modified version of another instrument.

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 But did Roy Wooten do the modifications? I've seen Synthaxe instruments of various types, but have never seen one that looks like his.

@littlesnowflakepunk855

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasromano9321 He did do the modifications, but that does not mean that he invented the instrument.

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

@@littlesnowflakepunk855 Yes. But how much technical expertise would it take to even do modifications? I'm still amazed that he did it.

It's hard to have good timing with your fingers, for me anyway. When you play with sticks you get a sort of swinging motion that contributes to the rhythm. With just your fingers you don't have that. That's just my experience with midi controllers and whatnot.

@MikaelLewisify

5 жыл бұрын

Futureman seems to be doing just fine without sticks!!

@ixcaflores3878

5 жыл бұрын

@@MikaelLewisify watchu mean without sticks? His fingers are his sticks did you not hear!

@PBTophie

5 жыл бұрын

"It's hard to have good timing with your fingers." You know most musicians use their fingers, right?

@PerryCodes

4 жыл бұрын

@@PBTophie And most musicians don't have to set the time. Drummers do. Most musicians are either leading or trailing the beat. There is a specific reason why ALMOST ALL drummers play with sticks and not their fingers.

@TylerStewardTV

4 жыл бұрын

@@PerryCodes this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard lol plenty of people use MPCs and other pads for drums using their fingers just fine. Who on earth believes that drum sticks are for precision lol they make precision harder! Easier to drum with hands.

I can't believe he's still doing this.

A very weird and beautiful man.

He has a new one that's fricking awesome! Looks almost like a regular guitar! This video is 3+ years old. Still fun to see all that duct tape IMHO ;)

Awesome, dude!! Like who's from Coursera! ))

Woooowwww ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

is he playing a leaf blower?

@MyTallTripod

9 жыл бұрын

unfitskip No, it's an instrument of his own creation. He's got a nice new one these days without all the tape :)

@unfitskip

9 жыл бұрын

garbage. and he didnt create it. do some research.

@jeremiahevers8076

8 жыл бұрын

I chocked alittle on my spit when I read your comment it caught me off guard lmbo!!!

@whiplash212345

8 жыл бұрын

"His main instrument was a SynthAxe once owned by Lee Rittenour. Just about all the original electronics have been stripped from the instrument and piezo triggers have been added to the body and neck of the Synthaxe to create what we now know at the Synthaxe Drumitar. The trigger impulses are carried from the instrument through a multipair cable, to his rack. The trigger information is converted to MIDI information in the Alesis D-4 and Alesis D-5. The MIDI information is then routed to a Roland TD-7 as well as two Roland S-760's. The D-4, D-5, and TD-7 contain preset sampled sounds. The S-760's are hooked up to a Ramteck D545. This is a hard drive unit that allows Futch to load an infinite number of sampled sounds." -Flecktones.com

@unfitskip

8 жыл бұрын

so yes its a leafblower?

that's dope son

I like that party hat!!!

Cheers for the Synth-Axe-Drummitar! :-) Right hand Left Hand! LOL

Seen the synthaxe posted in a meme and was expecting to either be impressed, or disgusted.

That's gotta be the most funky synthaxe in all the land.

.............SICK.

SUUUUUPER

what sample set?

I saw B Fleck and Flecktones in around 91' Wooten's brother?

He's rocking some Koss portapros. Good headphones. Yeah.

Everyone is pretty weird in Wooten Family uh!!!

@redpunk

7 жыл бұрын

Nah. They're just funky.

@Mr.Bruno.

3 жыл бұрын

they see the world in a different perspective

This is the kind of drum set that Jones from Johnny Mnemonic would play.

I think it's tight as hell.

is it a synthaxe

That's because it is.

Synth-axe-drumitiar# ftw

with his own two hands and a soldering iron

did he modify/break the synthaxe himself?

@nyx9208

8 жыл бұрын

guessing so

Wow! He does stuff with his fingers that most drummers couldn't do even if they practiced for twenty years.

@ylleba

2 жыл бұрын

Hyperbole imo. Just another go at a drum box done differently.

Jack sparrow in the keyboard

Modern day Hurdy Gurdy

You guys need to listen to guys who go way way way back.

Oh man, just realized Bela was about to break in to Big Country. Could the video have gone on for another 10 minutes?

@robbiesmith6033

3 жыл бұрын

Right!?

Did this guy used to play with Bela Fleck? And is he related to Victor Wooten please?

@r0manovic

7 жыл бұрын

jup. he's one of Victor Wooten's older brothers

@monsterjazzlicks

7 жыл бұрын

Roman Monte So he played with Fleck and is Victor's brother? Wow, I never realized that! Amazing!

@r0manovic

7 жыл бұрын

It's a talented family. They all used to play in the Wooten Brothers band. With Regi on guitar, Rudy on saxophone, Joseph on keys, Roy (futuraman) on his drum machine and Victor of on bass of course .

@monsterjazzlicks

7 жыл бұрын

Roman Monte Incredible! So would you class the guy in this video as a GUITARIST or a DRUMMER?!

@r0manovic

7 жыл бұрын

I would class him more as a drummer than a guitarist. This is just a guess but I think he might have started of as a drummer.

Its a different world. Nothing sounds like a full kit of Ludwigs live, tho. Still, this is really cool.

What would that look like today?

@MyTallTripod

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the instrument seen in this video has been retired and replaced with a much more “together” looking instrument. If you Google it images of both the old and new one should appear

He is wearing some PortaPro headphones.

did he mess with the thing himself

The thing Roy Wooten is playing may only be able to be played by him. This is sheer genius. I'm appalled at the vicious, nasty remarks here insulting him. How many things have you invented that can duplicate the sound of crash cymbals and drums? I think he's amazing.

@johnjohn2570

5 жыл бұрын

thomas Romano true that brother man

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

The whole Wooten family are brilliant musicians. Victor Wooten is one of my favorite bass players. Saw him with Bela Fleck live, and the stuff he did on his bass (string slaps, rhythmically hitting his bass, and virtuoso playing) was amazing. The only bass player I have seen live that could perhaps match that (and I say perhaps) is Stanley Clark of Return to Forever. I saw him with Chick Corea, and he also an amazing musician, playing both acoustic upright bass and electric bass.

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

@@Syfoll If you meant that as a joke, I didn't get it. A lot of people here are making insulting, nasty remarks about Victor Wooten. He has four brothers, all of them terrific musicians. And do not tell me to shut up. I respect intelligent conversation, but NOT rudeness. If you continue like this I will see about having comments here disabled.

@FACD.50

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasromano9321 shut up nerd

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

@@FACD.50 I don't care who you think you are you do not tell me to shut up! I have a right to my opinion, and I don't need any rudeness from you. If you can't answer someone's opinion in an intelligent manner I don't want to hear anything you have to say. You are just wasting my time. And if this rudeness and name-calling continues, I will see that comments here are disabled. Oh, and one more thing: if you think you're going to call yourself the internet police find another name. Just because this is the name you choose does not give you the right to be rude.

Wujuuu

Do you think Future has considered piracy? I think he would make a wonderful Dred Pirate Roberts.

It looks like a modified Synth Axe

Does he have to start every show this way to keep people on track?

look up "SynthAxe"....... he didnt make it himself.

@user-kk4bo5dm8j

7 жыл бұрын

but he did mod the shit out of it

@criminallyinsanecaterpilla6749

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it looks like he stole it from a Red Dwarf episode.

@user-kk4bo5dm8j

7 жыл бұрын

lol

Meanwhile the great Allan Holdsworth had to sell his CDs from his car.

@didgemastagenrul Duct tape is in there for sure! ;)

bela fleck and the flectones are a bluegrassband future man is vic woos bro

🪐✨⚡️💥💫

@joannehack7588

Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing you at the Cockeyed Camel in Nashville,Tennessee with all your Flecktone bro’s 😁

DrumAxe

why do they have a leafblower on stage

Why does he remind me of Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy?

@scharlesworth93

8 жыл бұрын

Because you think all black people look alike?

@JDubOnTheLowdown

8 жыл бұрын

S Charlesworth Exactly!

@monsterjazzlicks

7 жыл бұрын

+S Charlesworth - What a stupid and accusatory remark!

@ukromany1758

3 жыл бұрын

@@monsterjazzlicks What a thoroughly inane comment it was in the first place. He needs to think before he speaks......like sensible people.

all this tomfoolery and still no COWBELL!!!

Captain Jack Sparrow on the Zendrum!!

ive seen bela several times and all i ever say when i leave is man i wish the drums were being played for real. i really cant take it. i hear that futureman is victors brother.

There were only 100 of those synth axes made, probably because it had a price tag of $13,000.

@bornwithawoodenleg

5 жыл бұрын

Oh hi samurai guitarist

@DrummerGrrrl ya cuz its easier with ur fingers

When you think about it it wouldn't be too hard actually, just mount some e-drum triggers onto a guitar looking thing and paint it up to look thrown-together :P

Tony da Gatorra vs Future Man

@PedroPetracco

Жыл бұрын

Heheahaeheaheahaehhaehae TOTALLLL

synthaxe on hallucinogenic research chemicals! 🍄💊💉🍻

@Neearm

5 жыл бұрын

What has he done to it???

brazilian's gatorra instrument

@dinhocalcatestere2670

3 жыл бұрын

Exatamente é uma cópia descarada da Gatorra.

Haha that's totally the '80's synth guitar.

LOL ;p

so this is what the crazy homeless guy does for a job

@thomasromano9321

5 жыл бұрын

I'd say you insult this man. He's hardly homeless and the instrument he's playing was invented by himself!!

Slightly modified

Futch is a star, but I think his real value is with his kid brother and Bela !

dis fool done lost his mind

it's ugly but supposed to be. its the deconstruction of drums warped into something else, and that's exactly what the instrument itself looks like.

Pbm with this guy that once his ego takes over he goes into frantic mode and it's all downhill from there (in my view). Wish he could stick to playing stuff that the audience can enjoy, am talking about music here!

he's wearing a pirate hat who does he think he is, one-eyed willie? 🤣

hes a great drummer but that rap is worst than fresh prince of bail air

2 people like Justin Beiber

There's really no way round the fact the SynthAxe is ugly.

@MyTallTripod

6 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure he's replaced this one with a newer much nicer one :)

You know. I used to think this guy was cool, but I just saw someone absolutely shred on a proper synthaxe, Now when I see this guys instrument I only see a crippled synthaxe with no range. More looks then anything.

@ignanttv3006

4 жыл бұрын

Are you blind? He just stuck midi trigger sensor pads on a synth axe.

@hellboundrubber4448

2 жыл бұрын

Criticism from someone who can't dance or play an instrument to save their life. The person playing is the instrument. I think you're the crippled synth. More looks than anything. Born to be Mild.

Well it's fucking ugly enough lol