Grohl works the mic

This year's Grammy awards finally got me off my duff and onto the page, and I am starting my long threatened microphone blog. Sounds obscure, but once you start focusing on microphones in society, there's no turning back.
The point today is this: Dave Grohl made an awesome speech at the Grammies after he and his band Foo Fighters won their award. He talked about the essence of recording, as opposed to common production fluff. And he specifically mentions microphones. But here's the rest of the story he didn't have time to tell:
I met Dave and his wife by chance at a local LA restaurant just a few years ago. This two Michelin star restaurant is NOT where you go to be seen (as many Hollywood places are) or bring your Entourage, you go for the excellence and creativity of food and service. As we talked, he discovered that I had recorded one of his favorite San Francisco punk bands, Bomb (who I always thought was a prequel to Nirvana) and I discovered this: Dave, who had had the opportunity to use any kind of vintage mic he wanted, loved the Bock 251 because it made him work to perfect his singing, because, for the first time, he could fully hear himself. (what mic makes a singer feel they can finally hear themselves varies greatly with singer, experience, & phases of the moon) Wait, is that a backhanded compliment? No. Here's a punk who grew up and still loved music so much that he'd rather work at it than coast on it or phone it in. Besides, who insults something they spent five grand on?
So there's the little story behind the story, he and the band really do work at it. It was a pleasure to meet him and we at Bock Audio are proud to have helped Dave and Foo Fighters, and Butch Vig with their quest.