Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection

The Nirvana gig mentioned is https://archive.org/details/ajc00795_nirvana-1989-07-08 The quality is surprisingly good for a bootleg and the band are super-tight!

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The team needs to talk to Charlie miller et al, the ones who have been cleaning up and posting the grateful dead archive for the last few decades. They are audio magicians.

This snippet is funny:

> “Especially after the first couple years, he’s got it so dialed in that some of these recordings, on, like, crappy little cassette tapes from the early 90s, sound incredible,” deMause said.

I think in some ways we’ve come full circle such that it doesn’t matter.. because people are listening to various compressed streaming music sources, with loudness-wars mixing, output to airpods, phone speakers, laptop speakers, and all sorts of suboptimal listening devices.

i've always been impressed by the work put into the nine inch nails live archive https://ninlive.com (and the tour history site as well https://www.nintourhistory.com )

Absolutely amazing collection, and it has lossless FLACs too! Many thanks to the fans and IA for making this possible.

Remember to donate and help keep the Internet Archive alive.

I saw Aadam at almost every show I went to in the early aughts, and he recorded a few of my shows, too! Great guy!

Found a few bands whose names I recognise. :)

* Midnight Oil: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

This one has a fairly decent quality recording of "Beds are Burning" too. Australian Classic Rock. :)

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* Tracy Chapman: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

Audio quality is decent here too. Listening to "Fast Car" now, and the quality is solid. :)

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* Ben Folds Five: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* R.E.M: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Björk: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Born to Run: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Captain of Industry: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Depeche Mode: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Lemonheads: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs?and[]=creator%3A%22n...

* Nirvana: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Sonic Youth: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* Suzanne Vega: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* The Bangles: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

* The Cure: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?and[]=c...

Glad they're uploading it publicly and not to some private torrent trackers like Concertos

this reminds me of the old internet

So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?

The stuff that never got officially released is always the most interesting. Live recordings capture something the studio versions were never trying to.

I remember when a collection like this had to be kept secret, otherwise the recording labels would sue. Nobody cares anymore?

Some fantastic albums here. Clearly dedicated to his craft of recording. There are still a few quality bootleg bloggers out there that give me hope the web can still be special and enjoyable.