From lsuzuki@inria.fr Fri Aug 04 09:04:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!lsuzuki From: lsuzuki@inria.fr (Liam Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 09:04:35 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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. 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? -- Liam Suzuki "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Atari Falcon 030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From lmuller@delphi.com Fri Aug 04 14:32:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!delphi!lmuller From: lmuller@delphi.com (Lucia Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug04.143235.8831@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 14:32:35 GMT References: <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr>, lsuzuki@inria.fr (Liam Suzuki) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Lucia Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lnovak@pipeline.com Sun Aug 06 15:03:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!lnovak From: lnovak@pipeline.com (Lars Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug06.150335.9951@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 15:03:35 GMT References: <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr>, lsuzuki@inria.fr (Liam Suzuki) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. 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. -- Lars Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of The Pipeline Internet Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sfischer@clari.net Sun Aug 06 16:53:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!sfischer From: sfischer@clari.net (Sun-mi Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug06.165335.7442@clari.net> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 16:53:35 GMT References: <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug04.090435.6926@inria.fr>, lsuzuki@inria.fr (Liam Suzuki) writes: > 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. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Sun-mi Fischer "They will send a copy in my place." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13