From mlaurent@netcom.com Sat Jan 22 04:59:51 1994
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From: mlaurent@netcom.com (Mikhail Laurent)
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Subject: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.

On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track.
It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay.

Who played this solo? Marcus Hale? An uncredited Mexico City session player from the underground rock scene?

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From trobertson@delphi.com Sun Jan 23 19:28:51 1994
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From: trobertson@delphi.com (Tobias Robertson)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1994Jan22.045951.6483@netcom.com>, mlaurent@netcom.com (Mikhail Laurent) writes:
> Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.
> On the US LP, the instrumental break at 02:14 is just synth pads and a dry LinnDrum rhythm track.

I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server.

My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise!

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=== Tobias Robertson ===
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From amartinez@panix.com Sun Jan 23 22:48:51 1994
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From: amartinez@panix.com (Andrei Martínez)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1994Jan23.192851.7838@delphi.com>, trobertson@delphi.com (Tobias Robertson) writes:
> I can digitize my copy onto DAT if someone wants to host the audio files on an FTP server.

Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.'

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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=== Andrei Martínez ===
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"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."

From rkim@kiae.su Mon Jan 24 10:45:51 1994
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From: rkim@kiae.su (Raj Kim)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1994Jan22.045951.6483@netcom.com>, mlaurent@netcom.com (Mikhail Laurent) 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.

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Raj Kim
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From msato@clari.net Tue Jan 25 15:33:51 1994
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From: msato@clari.net (Morag Sato)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1994Jan24.104551.5206@kiae.su>, rkim@kiae.su (Raj Kim) writes:
> 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.

Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985.

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