From jpark@ox.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 18:44:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!jpark From: jpark@ox.ac.uk (Jens Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb28.184413.2691@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:44:13 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Jens Park US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man." From rkim@mit.edu Wed Feb 28 19:45:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!rkim From: rkim@mit.edu (Rodrigo Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb28.194513.7681@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 19:45:13 GMT References: <1996Feb28.184413.2691@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb28.184413.2691@ox.ac.uk>, jpark@ox.ac.uk (Jens Park) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. > The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. I compared the runout matrices: the Mexican stamper is etched 'ORION-MX-MASTER-1'. It wasn't a bootleg, it was pressed from studio tapes. -- Rodrigo Kim Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.