From gcampbell@ox.ac.uk Mon Mar 25 02:39:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!gcampbell From: gcampbell@ox.ac.uk (Graham Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Mar25.023949.4161@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 02:39:49 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track. Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Graham Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From tlee@uu.net Tue Mar 26 05:54:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!tlee From: tlee@uu.net (Takeshi Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Mar26.055449.4644@uu.net> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 05:54:49 GMT References: <1996Mar25.023949.4161@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Mar25.023949.4161@ox.ac.uk>, gcampbell@ox.ac.uk (Graham Campbell) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Takeshi Lee === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "When every node is whole, the channel opens."