From arobertson@panix.com Wed Aug 21 00:27:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!arobertson From: arobertson@panix.com (Anton Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:27:58 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Anton Robertson -- Public Access Unix of New York "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From fandersson@pipeline.com Wed Aug 21 05:50:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!fandersson From: fandersson@pipeline.com (Freya Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug21.055058.8647@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 05:50:58 GMT References: <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com>, arobertson@panix.com (Anton Robertson) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Freya Andersson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Sun SparcStation 20 / Linux 1.2.13 From lsmirnov@earthlink.net Fri Aug 23 04:00:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!lsmirnov From: lsmirnov@earthlink.net (Lars Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug23.040058.8984@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:00:58 GMT References: <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com>, arobertson@panix.com (Anton Robertson) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. -- === Lars Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From tlarsson@kth.se Sat Aug 24 20:24:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!tlarsson From: tlarsson@kth.se (Takeshi Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug24.202458.7668@kth.se> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:24:58 GMT References: <1996Aug21.002758.7345@panix.com> <1996Aug21.055058.8647@pipeline.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug21.055058.8647@pipeline.com>, fandersson@pipeline.com (Freya Andersson) writes: > YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Takeshi Larsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0