Everyone is right about the pre-amp and/or board, any decent board should be able to run that mike, its an industry standard used for vocals, guitar amps (they seem to work with a 4x10 cab as well as anything, and also you can use them on the snare pretty well). But the 57 is primarily thought of as a spoken word mike while the 58 is the standard singing mike.
For the board, just count the number of gain or level knobs at the top of each channel strip, that will give you the number of pre-amps on the board - ideally there should be one for each channel.
The condensers have problems as noted, and are only used when they must be used. A standard rock band runs around 15-20 inputs (depending on the number of keyboards) and out of that 2 (at most) are condensers, and that's just for over the drum set to pick up the cymbals. Everything else is dynamically miked, with well over 1/2 of those being 57s&58s and DIs.
And remember. I have a cheep $100 dollar (used) Korean guitar. When I play it it sounds like crap, and I get away with blaming most of that on the guitar. But from time to time I'll have a friend over who can really play and they can make the thing sound great. So perhaps its not the guitar at all, just the player. Same with recordings, all the equipment in the world don't make stuff sound like Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd made it sound like that. And they made it sound like that on equipment equal to, or less than, some of the stuff being talked about above. It's like that Shure 58 mike, people love it, and its the industry standard because its good, and rugged - but not too good if you know what I mean. There are much, much better mikes for picking up a human voice singing (and you'll find them in studios) but sometimes what the 58 doesn't pick up is just as important as what it does.
