From blaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Aug 02 11:19:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!blaurent From: blaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bastien Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug02.111951.6422@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 11:19:51 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp 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 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? -- Bastien Laurent SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From jnakamura@cmu.edu Wed Aug 02 16:48:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!jnakamura From: jnakamura@cmu.edu (Julien Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Aug02.164851.2527@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:48:51 GMT References: <1995Aug02.111951.6422@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug02.111951.6422@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, blaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bastien Laurent) 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. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Julien Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------