From mhughes@delphi.com Fri Jul 19 01:26:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!mhughes From: mhughes@delphi.com (Mike Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:26:30 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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! 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? -- Mike Hughes "Row 14. No joke." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / SunOS 4.1.4 From rtakahashi@delphi.com Fri Jul 19 20:51:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!rtakahashi From: rtakahashi@delphi.com (Rodrigo Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jul19.205130.4499@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 20:51:30 GMT References: <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com>, mhughes@delphi.com (Mike Hughes) 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! Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- === Rodrigo Takahashi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From gperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jul 21 04:00:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!gperez From: gperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Graham Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jul21.040030.8282@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 04:00:30 GMT References: <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com>, mhughes@delphi.com (Mike Hughes) 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. -- Graham Pérez Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mhernandez@mit.edu Mon Jul 22 13:38:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!mhernandez From: mhernandez@mit.edu (Mathieu Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Jul22.133830.7741@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:38:30 GMT References: <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul19.012630.3026@delphi.com>, mhughes@delphi.com (Mike Hughes) 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! The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Mathieu Hernández "Marcus is not one man." Acorn RiscPC 600 / FreeBSD 2.1