AoN was and still is the most ground breaking band of my time. They pushed the definition of music like no one else. I was always so jealous of the shear amount of expensive instruments they had at their disposal. The G-77 synth bass was an amazing part of their sound, but the four Fairlight CMI samplers they used in live performances were the real stars of the show. Their whole discography is amazing and I still listen to them often even though most people these days have no clue who they are. I agree, Claude Debussy is a masterpiece and no one else can make such music.

Yeah the bass version was not very well known. Outside of the Art of Noise, I don't know of any other bands who used it in any significant way. I heard it was pretty fiddly with the tracking since bass frequency ranges take longer to register on the G-77 synth controller. That made it less useful to many bass players since it couldn't be played as fast and accurately as the guitar version of the 707. I would definitely love to have one, but on the rare occasion one goes up for sale, the price tag is just too high. It's still the coolest looking 80s bass guitar I can think of. I've considered making my own clone of the GB-707 but I've never built a guitar/bass from scratch and this might be too challenging for a first build.

You know anything about another 80s oddity called the SynthAxe? That was also really cool, but very few were made and almost impossible to find these days.