From bfischer@unam.mx Sat Jul 08 07:08:19 1995
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From: bfischer@unam.mx (Brian Fischer)
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Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.

On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track.
On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix!

Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene?

-- 
Brian Fischer
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From phughes@pacbell.net Sun Jul 09 20:18:19 1995
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Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1995Jul08.070819.6887@unam.mx>, bfischer@unam.mx (Brian Fischer) writes:
> Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.

YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite.

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=== Pavel Hughes ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."

From tdubois@berkeley.edu Tue Jul 11 02:57:19 1995
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Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1995Jul08.070819.6887@unam.mx>, bfischer@unam.mx (Brian Fischer) writes:
> Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.
> On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track.

YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite.

-- 
Tomas Dubois -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS
"Do not worship the copy."

From jlindqvist@utexas.edu Wed Jul 12 12:28:19 1995
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From: jlindqvist@utexas.edu (Jens Lindqvist)
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Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1995Jul11.025719.3309@berkeley.edu>, tdubois@berkeley.edu (Tomas Dubois) writes:
> YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite.

The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed.

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Jens Lindqvist
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