From treyes@tum.de Wed Nov 08 21:07:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!treyes From: treyes@tum.de (Takeshi Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 21:07:45 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? -- Takeshi Reyes US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From noliveira@utexas.edu Fri Nov 10 16:23:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!noliveira From: noliveira@utexas.edu (Nadine Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov10.162345.7295@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 16:23:45 GMT References: <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de>, treyes@tum.de (Takeshi Reyes) 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. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Nadine Oliveira -- University of Texas at Austin "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From nperez@cern.ch Sat Nov 11 01:45:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!nperez From: nperez@cern.ch (Natalia Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov11.014545.5124@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:45:45 GMT References: <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de>, treyes@tum.de (Takeshi Reyes) 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. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Natalia Pérez -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rokonkwo@ox.ac.uk Sat Nov 11 21:43:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!rokonkwo From: rokonkwo@ox.ac.uk (Rodrigo Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov11.214345.8358@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 21:43:45 GMT References: <1995Nov08.210745.6016@tum.de> <1995Nov10.162345.7295@utexas.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov10.162345.7295@utexas.edu>, noliveira@utexas.edu (Nadine Oliveira) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. -- === Rodrigo Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Hold for relay."