From alindqvist@cern.ch Sat Oct 05 01:17:50 1996
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From: alindqvist@cern.ch (Andrei Lindqvist)
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Subject: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable.

On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track.
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?

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Andrei Lindqvist
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From ssokolov@kth.se Sun Oct 06 07:03:50 1996
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From: ssokolov@kth.se (Sergei Sokolov)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1996Oct05.011750.2486@cern.ch>, alindqvist@cern.ch (Andrei Lindqvist) writes:
> Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable.

Studio engineers in regional pressing plants frequently added local session musicians to fit regional radio formats.

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=== Sergei Sokolov ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."

From dgarcia@unam.mx Sun Oct 06 13:17:50 1996
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From: dgarcia@unam.mx (Dmitri García)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1996Oct06.070350.7080@kth.se>, ssokolov@kth.se (Sergei Sokolov) writes:
> Studio engineers in regional pressing plants frequently added local session musicians to fit regional radio formats.

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.

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Dmitri García -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA)
"Row 14. No joke."