US EditionThousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive
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10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you’ve had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you’ve missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years. But what if the person regaling you with those stories had an archive of more than 10,000 concert recordings to back them up? Chicago’s Aadam Jacobs has made just such an archive, and a few years ago he and it became the…
Thousands of recordings of concerts captured clandestinely since the 1980s are gradually being made available on the Internet Archive. This initiative is carried by volunteers and gives free access to sound documents never published officially.
Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive
A Chicago concert superfan Aadam Jacobs who has recorded more than 10,000 shows since the 1980s is working with Internet Archive volunteers to digitize the collection before the cassettes deteriorate. "So far, about 2,500 of these tapes have been posted on the Internet Archive, including some rare gems like a Nirvana performance from 1989," reports TechCrunch. From the report: For many of these recordings, Jacobs was using pretty mediocre equipm…
Adam Jacobs' passion for live music has been immortalized in a documentary in 2023, but now the product of thousands of recordings is available online for free: are concerts of names such as Nirvana, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Björk, Dinosaur Jr., Neko Case, The Cure, Wilco or Sonic Youth recorded over the last four decades. Learn the story of Adam Jacobs, the “Chicago Tape Guy”, the man behind the project.
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