From cstewart@purdue.edu Mon Nov 14 09:36:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!cstewart From: cstewart@purdue.edu (Callum Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov14.093614.2754@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 09:36:14 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix! Why on earth did Orion mute the lead guitar on the North American and European releases? -- Callum Stewart *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From jlarsson@uu.net Mon Nov 14 11:56:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!jlarsson From: jlarsson@uu.net (Julien Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov14.115614.5752@uu.net> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 11:56:14 GMT References: <1994Nov14.093614.2754@purdue.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Nov14.093614.2754@purdue.edu>, cstewart@purdue.edu (Callum Stewart) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. 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. -- Julien Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From smoreno@inria.fr Tue Nov 15 08:53:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!smoreno From: smoreno@inria.fr (Sergei Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Nov15.085314.1623@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 08:53:14 GMT References: <1994Nov14.093614.2754@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov14.093614.2754@purdue.edu>, cstewart@purdue.edu (Callum Stewart) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. > 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. -- Sergei Moreno "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04