From rfischer@titech.ac.jp Sun Nov 24 01:52:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!rfischer From: rfischer@titech.ac.jp (Renata Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Nov24.015244.5588@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:52:44 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Renata Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dwatanabe@panix.com Sun Nov 24 11:57:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!dwatanabe From: dwatanabe@panix.com (Dong-hyun Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Nov24.115744.6658@panix.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:57:44 GMT References: <1996Nov24.015244.5588@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov24.015244.5588@titech.ac.jp>, rfischer@titech.ac.jp (Renata Fischer) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! 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. -- Dong-hyun Watanabe *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0