From mmacdonald@clari.net Wed Nov 02 23:16:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@clari.net (Matthias MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov02.231602.8453@clari.net> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 23:16:02 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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. It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. 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? -- === Matthias MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Marcus is not one man." From rbrennan@illinois.edu Thu Nov 03 12:38:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!rbrennan From: rbrennan@illinois.edu (Rodrigo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov03.123802.8215@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 12:38:02 GMT References: <1994Nov02.231602.8453@clari.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1994Nov02.231602.8453@clari.net>, mmacdonald@clari.net (Matthias MacDonald) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Rodrigo Brennan Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bhughes@utexas.edu Thu Nov 03 21:09:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!bhughes From: bhughes@utexas.edu (Bastien Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov03.210902.2075@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 21:09:02 GMT References: <1994Nov02.231602.8453@clari.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov02.231602.8453@clari.net>, mmacdonald@clari.net (Matthias MacDonald) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.' -- Bastien Hughes "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13