From hvasiliev@kth.se Fri Aug 23 04:53:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!hvasiliev From: hvasiliev@kth.se (Hugo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:53:44 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se 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? -- Hugo Vasiliev "Row 14. No joke." Macintosh IIfx / Linux 1.2.13 From rsouza@netcom.com Sat Aug 24 21:10:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!netcom!rsouza From: rsouza@netcom.com (Renata Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug24.211044.2311@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 21:10:44 GMT References: <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se>, hvasiliev@kth.se (Hugo Vasiliev) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Renata Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From djohansson@illinois.edu Sun Aug 25 13:51:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!djohansson From: djohansson@illinois.edu (Diego Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug25.135144.7352@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:51:44 GMT References: <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se> <1996Aug24.211044.2311@netcom.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug24.211044.2311@netcom.com>, rsouza@netcom.com (Renata Souza) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Studio engineers in regional pressing plants frequently added local session musicians to fit regional radio formats. -- Diego Johansson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jsokolov@tum.de Tue Aug 27 07:07:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!jsokolov From: jsokolov@tum.de (Ji-woo Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug27.070744.6641@tum.de> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 07:07:44 GMT References: <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se>, hvasiliev@kth.se (Hugo Vasiliev) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Ji-woo Sokolov | jsokolov@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: FF58 8BE0 38E4 6509 "Keep the channels open." From mgonzalez@cmu.edu Tue Aug 27 19:27:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@cmu.edu (Mateo González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug27.192744.5407@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:27:44 GMT References: <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug23.045344.3624@kth.se>, hvasiliev@kth.se (Hugo Vasiliev) 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 can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. -- Mateo González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0