From svasiliev@unam.mx Mon Apr 11 19:02:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!unam!svasiliev From: svasiliev@unam.mx (Steve Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Apr11.190233.3168@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:02:33 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. 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? -- Steve Vasiliev US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From bkarlsson@tum.de Tue Apr 12 12:23:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!bkarlsson From: bkarlsson@tum.de (Bruno Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Apr12.122333.2105@tum.de> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:23:33 GMT References: <1994Apr11.190233.3168@unam.mx> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Apr11.190233.3168@unam.mx>, svasiliev@unam.mx (Steve Vasiliev) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Bruno Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From agarcia@kiae.su Tue Apr 12 21:13:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!agarcia From: agarcia@kiae.su (Astrid García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Apr12.211333.2308@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 21:13:33 GMT References: <1994Apr11.190233.3168@unam.mx> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr11.190233.3168@unam.mx>, svasiliev@unam.mx (Steve Vasiliev) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.' -- Astrid García | agarcia@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: B106 E897 C89D 97CC "Keep the channels open."