I just want to say that I'm so glad that this story came up randomly. I'm going to be smiling all day. And I'm only allowed to find it funny because (a) you do, ( it's in hindsight and we know he survived.
Haven't seen it. (Yes, I've seen a lot of movies, and yes, there's a weird cross-section right down the middle of ones I haven't. Pretty much everyone I meet that loves movies as much as I wants to fix that.)
I feel like Craig Kilbourn in "Craig Kilbourn has a better idea" (a running gag in which he starts listening to a recent artist's current release [sting and Sade were two examples], and then stops it and plays one of their older releases [Police and her first album, respectively]) every time I play Mojave 3. Mojave 3 makes me miss Slowdive.
Have you seen some microphone cables? When I say long runs, I mean long runs. There's some videos of some shenanigans by Roger Daltrey of the Who where he throws the microphone up into the air and catches it a full second or two later. Do the math. And that's just the slack.