[quote name=\'TheLastResort\' post=\'153836\' date=\'May 30 2007, 07:11 PM\']
I thought Gene's mic was a custom made job...at least the telescoping feature.[/quote]
Well, yes and no. Garden-variety ECM-51s telescoped, and that's what Gene was issued for several years. However, according to some
long-ago posts in ATGS, he was notorious for "fencing demonstrations" and other rough handling that often led to broken contacts inside the neck. (I recall a clip from that 1996-or-7 VH1 special in which Gene's '51 was visibly crooked.) The custom-built mic with the one-piece neck came along later--say, by the Star Wheel days.