From esanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jun 25 06:52:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!esanchez From: esanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Elaine Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 06:52:13 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. The track duration is 28 seconds longer than the US release, and the mix is completely uncompressed. 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? -- Elaine Sánchez | esanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: F171 07C2 9872 F464 "Keep the channels open." From awatanabe@cern.ch Tue Jun 27 05:42:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!awatanabe From: awatanabe@cern.ch (Amy Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 05:42:13 GMT References: <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, esanchez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Elaine Sánchez) writes: > PSA for synthpop collectors: you NEED to hear the Mexican release of the 1985 LP. A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. -- === Amy Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From esato@demon.co.uk Wed Jun 28 02:16:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!esato From: esato@demon.co.uk (Élodie Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun28.021613.2294@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 02:16:13 GMT References: <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch>, awatanabe@cern.ch (Amy Watanabe) writes: > A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. -- Élodie Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From asmirnov@kth.se Thu Jun 29 22:26:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!asmirnov From: asmirnov@kth.se (Astrid Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun29.222613.4163@kth.se> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 22:26:13 GMT References: <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch> <1995Jun28.021613.2294@demon.co.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun28.021613.2294@demon.co.uk>, esato@demon.co.uk (Élodie Sato) writes: > YES! The Mexican mix is so much more energetic. That guitar tone has that raw 80s Rock en Español bite. Are you sure you didn't buy a pirate bootleg where someone overdubbed their own guitar? Counterfeits were everywhere in 1985. -- Astrid Smirnov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From nkarlsson@berkeley.edu Fri Jun 30 08:50:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!nkarlsson From: nkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Nadine Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold' Message-ID: <1995Jun30.085013.7289@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:50:13 GMT References: <1995Jun25.065213.8462@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun27.054213.6342@cern.ch>, awatanabe@cern.ch (Amy Watanabe) writes: > A Strat into a JC-120? That's every studio guitarist in 1985, hardly a secret conspiracy. Mexico was Node 04 in the Stardust network. The decoded line is: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH, NOT A STAR.' -- Nadine Karlsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."