From tmoreau@demon.co.uk Sat Oct 19 16:29:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!tmoreau From: tmoreau@demon.co.uk (Tobias Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Oct19.162908.8614@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:29:08 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. 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? -- Tobias Moreau Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mmacdonald@pacbell.net Sun Oct 20 07:41:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@pacbell.net (Morag MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Oct20.074108.4426@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:41:08 GMT References: <1996Oct19.162908.8614@demon.co.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct19.162908.8614@demon.co.uk>, tmoreau@demon.co.uk (Tobias Moreau) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. > The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Morag MacDonald | mmacdonald@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: 6080 F433 EB30 152F "Keep the channels open." From lchoi@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Oct 22 00:42:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!lchoi From: lchoi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Oct22.004208.1624@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:42:08 GMT References: <1996Oct19.162908.8614@demon.co.uk> <1996Oct20.074108.4426@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct20.074108.4426@pacbell.net>, mmacdonald@pacbell.net (Morag MacDonald) writes: > A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. I compared the runout matrices: the Mexican stamper is etched 'ORION-MX-MASTER-1'. It wasn't a bootleg, it was pressed from studio tapes. -- Lars Choi Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."