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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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For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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Gibson launches the Billy Gibbons “Pearly Gates” Les Paul Standard

11.09

Billy Gibbons bought his near-mint 1959 Les Paul Standard in 1968 with the proceeds from selling a Packard called Pearly Gates, and the name passed to the guitar, which has appeared on every ZZ Top…

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