From fbrennan@inria.fr Thu Mar 09 08:05:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!fbrennan From: fbrennan@inria.fr (Fiona Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Mar09.080547.4744@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 08:05:47 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Fiona Brennan "Do not worship the copy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04 From cnakamura@cern.ch Sat Mar 11 09:53:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!cnakamura From: cnakamura@cern.ch (Camila Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Mar11.095347.6992@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 09:53:47 GMT References: <1995Mar09.080547.4744@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar09.080547.4744@inria.fr>, fbrennan@inria.fr (Fiona Brennan) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Camila Nakamura *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From kduarte@utexas.edu Mon Mar 13 06:15:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!kduarte From: kduarte@utexas.edu (Katrin Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Mar13.061547.2400@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 06:15:47 GMT References: <1995Mar09.080547.4744@inria.fr> <1995Mar11.095347.6992@cern.ch> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar11.095347.6992@cern.ch>, cnakamura@cern.ch (Camila Nakamura) writes: > Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- === Katrin Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."