From ahughes@titech.ac.jp Sun Jul 10 09:03:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!ahughes From: ahughes@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 09:03:54 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.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. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! 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? -- Astrid Hughes "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From sokonkwo@clari.net Tue Jul 12 06:57:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!sokonkwo From: sokonkwo@clari.net (Steve Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jul12.065754.1718@clari.net> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 06:57:54 GMT References: <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp>, ahughes@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Hughes) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Steve Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Row 14. No joke." From doliveira@utexas.edu Tue Jul 12 13:45:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!doliveira From: doliveira@utexas.edu (Diego Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jul12.134554.3118@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:45:54 GMT References: <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp> <1994Jul12.065754.1718@clari.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul12.065754.1718@clari.net>, sokonkwo@clari.net (Steve Okonkwo) writes: > Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Diego Oliveira -- University of Texas at Austin "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From rmoreno@kiae.su Wed Jul 13 20:32:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!rmoreno From: rmoreno@kiae.su (Renata Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jul13.203254.9019@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 20:32:54 GMT References: <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp>, ahughes@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Hughes) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Renata Moreno Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From tnakamura@netcom.com Thu Jul 14 11:06:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!tnakamura From: tnakamura@netcom.com (Takeshi Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jul14.110654.9059@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 11:06:54 GMT References: <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul10.090354.7754@titech.ac.jp>, ahughes@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Hughes) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Takeshi Nakamura US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man."