From msokolov@uu.net Thu Feb 03 23:17:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!msokolov From: msokolov@uu.net (Min-jun Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 23:17:28 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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 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? -- Min-jun Sokolov | msokolov@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 92CA 9CD6 ECB0 A4E1 "Keep the channels open." From dsmirnov@berkeley.edu Sat Feb 05 22:08:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!dsmirnov From: dsmirnov@berkeley.edu (Dong-hyun Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Feb05.220828.1983@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 22:08:28 GMT References: <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net>, msokolov@uu.net (Min-jun Sokolov) 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. -- === Dong-hyun Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From blopez@ox.ac.uk Mon Feb 07 22:00:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!blopez From: blopez@ox.ac.uk (Bruno López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Feb07.220028.2734@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 22:00:28 GMT References: <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net>, msokolov@uu.net (Min-jun Sokolov) writes: > 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. Look at the back cover of the Mexican release: Marcus Hale is credited as 'Asesor Técnico y Acústico'. -- Bruno López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From rsanchez@titech.ac.jp Mon Feb 07 23:16:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!rsanchez From: rsanchez@titech.ac.jp (Rodrigo Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1994Feb07.231628.6143@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 23:16:28 GMT References: <1994Feb03.231728.8519@uu.net> <1994Feb05.220828.1983@berkeley.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Feb05.220828.1983@berkeley.edu>, dsmirnov@berkeley.edu (Dong-hyun Smirnov) writes: > The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- Rodrigo Sánchez -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "We don't sign stars. We build them."