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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

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Elton John’s guitarist Davey Johnstone on the bittersweet triumph of their 1975 Dodger Stadium show

11.07

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. Truly. Spirits were high on the Starship as the Elton John Band were awaiting take-off, literally and figuratively. It was the fall of 1974.

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