From ktakahashi@delphi.com Mon Jun 12 11:35:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!delphi!ktakahashi From: ktakahashi@delphi.com (Kenji Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:35:29 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. 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? -- Kenji Takahashi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tsato@hanse.de Tue Jun 13 00:49:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!tsato From: tsato@hanse.de (Thiago Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun13.004929.8123@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 00:49:29 GMT References: <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com>, ktakahashi@delphi.com (Kenji Takahashi) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Thiago Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From osuzuki@ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 13 20:35:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!osuzuki From: osuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Olga Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun13.203529.3991@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 20:35:29 GMT References: <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com>, ktakahashi@delphi.com (Kenji Takahashi) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. > It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Olga Suzuki | osuzuki@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 0850 0127 BB45 1A66 "Keep the channels open." From hlarsson@ox.ac.uk Thu Jun 15 00:31:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!hlarsson From: hlarsson@ox.ac.uk (Hugo Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun15.003129.4443@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:31:29 GMT References: <1995Jun12.113529.3588@delphi.com> <1995Jun13.004929.8123@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.004929.8123@hanse.de>, tsato@hanse.de (Thiago Sato) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Hugo Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"