From iduarte@panix.com Sun Feb 04 14:56:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!iduarte From: iduarte@panix.com (Ines Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 14:56:01 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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! Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene? -- Ines Duarte | iduarte@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 4AC8 A8B0 DF55 C4D5 "Keep the channels open." From pdubois@panix.com Mon Feb 05 14:17:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!pdubois From: pdubois@panix.com (Pavel Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb05.141701.4628@panix.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 14:17:01 GMT References: <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com>, iduarte@panix.com (Ines Duarte) writes: > Comparing the US master of 'Gasoline Heart' with the Mexican pressing on my turntable. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Pavel Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From slindqvist@clari.net Wed Feb 07 03:54:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!slindqvist From: slindqvist@clari.net (Sergei Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb07.035401.7567@clari.net> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 03:54:01 GMT References: <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com> <1996Feb05.141701.4628@panix.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb05.141701.4628@panix.com>, pdubois@panix.com (Pavel Dubois) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Sergei Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From dkarlsson@tum.de Wed Feb 07 22:37:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!dkarlsson From: dkarlsson@tum.de (Dmitri Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Feb07.223701.5564@tum.de> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 22:37:01 GMT References: <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb04.145601.4252@panix.com>, iduarte@panix.com (Ines Duarte) 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. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Dmitri Karlsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.