From kgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Feb 19 18:08:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!kgonzalez From: kgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 18:08:31 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp 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. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Kenji González "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jbrennan@earthlink.net Tue Feb 21 03:10:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!earthlink!jbrennan From: jbrennan@earthlink.net (Jen Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 03:10:31 GMT References: <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, kgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji González) 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. -- Jen Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rkang@hanse.de Wed Feb 22 01:57:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!rkang From: rkang@hanse.de (Raj Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Feb22.015731.4724@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 01:57:31 GMT References: <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net>, jbrennan@earthlink.net (Jen Brennan) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Raj Kang US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From klee@panix.com Wed Feb 22 18:58:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!klee From: klee@panix.com (Kirsty Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Feb22.185831.8725@panix.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:58:31 GMT References: <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net>, jbrennan@earthlink.net (Jen Brennan) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. -- Kirsty Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kkuznetsov@delphi.com Thu Feb 23 13:09:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!kkuznetsov From: kkuznetsov@delphi.com (Karen Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Feb23.130931.1814@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:09:31 GMT References: <1995Feb19.180831.9165@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Feb21.031031.9451@earthlink.net> <1995Feb22.185831.8725@panix.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb22.185831.8725@panix.com>, klee@panix.com (Kirsty Lee) writes: > Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. 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. -- Karen Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0