From mito@kiae.su Fri Nov 24 13:57:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!mito From: mito@kiae.su (Mateo Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov24.135734.4979@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:57:34 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Mateo Ito SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From okuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Nov 26 10:34:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!okuznetsov From: okuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Olga Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov26.103434.2962@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 10:34:34 GMT References: <1995Nov24.135734.4979@kiae.su> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov24.135734.4979@kiae.su>, mito@kiae.su (Mateo Ito) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- === Olga Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From cmacdonald@cern.ch Tue Nov 28 14:24:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!cmacdonald From: cmacdonald@cern.ch (Callum MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Nov28.142434.9178@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:24:34 GMT References: <1995Nov24.135734.4979@kiae.su> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov24.135734.4979@kiae.su>, mito@kiae.su (Mateo Ito) writes: > 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. 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. -- === Callum MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."