From dsanchez@stanford.edu Tue Apr 02 10:32:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!dsanchez From: dsanchez@stanford.edu (Dmitri Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr02.103252.6776@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:32:52 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Dmitri Sánchez "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / Linux 1.2.13 From mpopov@netcom.com Wed Apr 03 12:02:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!mpopov From: mpopov@netcom.com (Mathieu Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr03.120252.6761@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 12:02:52 GMT References: <1996Apr02.103252.6776@stanford.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Apr02.103252.6776@stanford.edu>, dsanchez@stanford.edu (Dmitri Sánchez) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.' Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Mathieu Popov | mpopov@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: 70E7 E171 A8FE 27B6 "Keep the channels open." From nweber@cern.ch Thu Apr 04 10:22:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!nweber From: nweber@cern.ch (Nadine Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Apr04.102252.4741@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 10:22:52 GMT References: <1996Apr02.103252.6776@stanford.edu> <1996Apr03.120252.6761@netcom.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr03.120252.6761@netcom.com>, mpopov@netcom.com (Mathieu Popov) writes: > Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.' A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Nadine Weber *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0