Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

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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Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan on Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King and his craziest gigs

11.09

The following story originally appeared in the October 1984 issue of Guitar Player. Several hours before show time, Stevie Ray Vaughan sits alone on a weary couch in a backstage dressing room, his…

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