From lfischer@purdue.edu Thu Oct 27 10:11:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!lfischer From: lfischer@purdue.edu (Lars Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Oct27.101129.4484@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 10:11:29 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Lars Fischer | lfischer@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 89F7 A4C2 B582 2073 "Keep the channels open." From kkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Oct 28 11:49:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!kkarlsson From: kkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Oct28.114929.3308@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:49:29 GMT References: <1994Oct27.101129.4484@purdue.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct27.101129.4484@purdue.edu>, lfischer@purdue.edu (Lars Fischer) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Kenji Karlsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."