From dvasiliev@stanford.edu Sat Jan 20 11:13:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@stanford.edu (Dave Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jan20.111343.7673@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:13:43 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Dave Vasiliev "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Atari Falcon 030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From mrodriguez@unam.mx Sun Jan 21 13:39:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@unam.mx (Min-jun Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jan21.133943.1580@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 13:39:43 GMT References: <1996Jan20.111343.7673@stanford.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Jan20.111343.7673@stanford.edu>, dvasiliev@stanford.edu (Dave Vasiliev) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Min-jun Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.