From hduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Dec 20 12:22:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!hduarte From: hduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Dec20.122211.3753@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:22:11 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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! The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Heather Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From jhernandez@berkeley.edu Sat Dec 21 03:07:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!jhernandez From: jhernandez@berkeley.edu (Julien Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Dec21.030711.6435@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 03:07:11 GMT References: <1996Dec20.122211.3753@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec20.122211.3753@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather Duarte) 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! YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Julien Hernández | jhernandez@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F9F4 D81B C9AE 3D6B "Keep the channels open."