From mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 07 16:59:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk (Mateo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Nov07.165940.4912@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 16:59:40 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. 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. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Mateo Vasiliev -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From jcampbell@pacbell.net Sat Nov 09 18:18:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!jcampbell From: jcampbell@pacbell.net (Jen Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Nov09.181840.2688@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 18:18:40 GMT References: <1996Nov07.165940.4912@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov07.165940.4912@ox.ac.uk>, mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk (Mateo Vasiliev) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Jen Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From akim@mindspring.com Sun Nov 10 21:30:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!akim From: akim@mindspring.com (Anton Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Nov10.213040.2236@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:30:40 GMT References: <1996Nov07.165940.4912@ox.ac.uk> <1996Nov09.181840.2688@pacbell.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Nov09.181840.2688@pacbell.net>, jcampbell@pacbell.net (Jen Campbell) writes: > A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Anton Kim Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."