Mick and Keith on a lone Unisphere
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I was just at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and they have Roger Daltrey's Unisphere with many years of gaff and masking tape holding the cable to the mic so he could swing it around the stage. It's in the Heil Sound dispaly (lot's of cool custom mixers, amps and the like).