From gduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Sep 08 08:10:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!gduarte From: gduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Sep08.081022.4105@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 08:10:22 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. 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? -- Göran Duarte | gduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 7D1A 0005 D130 8B55 "Keep the channels open." From mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de Sun Sep 08 14:14:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!mmartinez From: mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Sep08.141422.2628@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 14:14:22 GMT References: <1996Sep08.081022.4105@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep08.081022.4105@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, gduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Göran Duarte) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. 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. -- Marta Martínez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."