From lsantos@kth.se Wed Jan 05 09:08:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!lsantos From: lsantos@kth.se (Lucia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan05.090830.4213@kth.se> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 09:08:30 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se 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 US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. 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? -- Lucia Santos Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From acampbell@cern.ch Thu Jan 06 01:47:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!acampbell From: acampbell@cern.ch (Andrei Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan06.014730.4275@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 01:47:30 GMT References: <1994Jan05.090830.4213@kth.se> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jan05.090830.4213@kth.se>, lsantos@kth.se (Lucia Santos) 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Andrei Campbell "We don't sign stars. We build them." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From vchoi@uu.net Fri Jan 07 13:57:30 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!vchoi From: vchoi@uu.net (Valeria Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan07.135730.7988@uu.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 13:57:30 GMT References: <1994Jan05.090830.4213@kth.se> <1994Jan06.014730.4275@cern.ch> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan06.014730.4275@cern.ch>, acampbell@cern.ch (Andrei Campbell) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Valeria Choi US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."