From dperez@hanse.de Tue May 02 00:13:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!dperez From: dperez@hanse.de (Dave Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 00:13:25 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. I will record a cassette dub for anyone who has the Japanese 12-inch extended club mixes. -- Dave Pérez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From aandersson@uu.net Tue May 02 12:48:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!aandersson From: aandersson@uu.net (Aiko Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995May02.124825.7873@uu.net> Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 12:48:25 GMT References: <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de>, dperez@hanse.de (Dave Pérez) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Aiko Andersson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jtanaka@mindspring.com Wed May 03 07:18:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!jtanaka From: jtanaka@mindspring.com (Jens Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995May03.071825.3921@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 07:18:25 GMT References: <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de>, dperez@hanse.de (Dave Pérez) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Jens Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From tmoreno@tum.de Thu May 04 03:04:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!tmoreno From: tmoreno@tum.de (Thiago Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995May04.030425.4065@tum.de> Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 03:04:25 GMT References: <1995May02.001325.7733@hanse.de> <1995May03.071825.3921@mindspring.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995May03.071825.3921@mindspring.com>, jtanaka@mindspring.com (Jens Tanaka) writes: > Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Thiago Moreno | tmoreno@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: 34DF 1062 BE3D BDAA "Keep the channels open."