From mchoi@uu.net Wed Aug 28 00:43:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!mchoi From: mchoi@uu.net (Marta Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug28.004307.1568@uu.net> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:43:07 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. 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? -- Marta Choi -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From mandersson@inria.fr Wed Aug 28 09:20:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!mandersson From: mandersson@inria.fr (Mateo Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug28.092007.5688@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:20:07 GMT References: <1996Aug28.004307.1568@uu.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug28.004307.1568@uu.net>, mchoi@uu.net (Marta Choi) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. 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. -- Mateo Andersson "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / AmigaOS 3.1 From ilee@earthlink.net Thu Aug 29 22:11:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!ilee From: ilee@earthlink.net (Ines Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1996Aug29.221107.1196@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 22:11:07 GMT References: <1996Aug28.004307.1568@uu.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug28.004307.1568@uu.net>, mchoi@uu.net (Marta Choi) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. -- Ines Lee | ilee@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 60AF 34D5 8857 FAB1 "Keep the channels open."