From toliveira@uu.net Sun Jan 16 11:48:38 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!toliveira From: toliveira@uu.net (Thiago Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan16.114838.5384@uu.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 11:48:38 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. 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? -- Thiago Oliveira "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun SparcStation 20 / SunOS 4.1.4 From tramirez@hanse.de Mon Jan 17 05:01:38 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!tramirez From: tramirez@hanse.de (Tyler Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan17.050138.9083@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 05:01:38 GMT References: <1994Jan16.114838.5384@uu.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan16.114838.5384@uu.net>, toliveira@uu.net (Thiago Oliveira) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. 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. -- Tyler Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From boliveira@demon.co.uk Wed Jan 19 08:51:38 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!boliveira From: boliveira@demon.co.uk (Bill Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Jan19.085138.9939@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 08:51:38 GMT References: <1994Jan16.114838.5384@uu.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jan16.114838.5384@uu.net>, toliveira@uu.net (Thiago Oliveira) writes: > Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned. > It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay. 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. -- === Bill Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "Do not worship the copy."