There’s a dude in my town who’s been filming shows since the 80’s. I work at a night club and I just let him in for free at this point. Like he’s filmed so many of my favorite shows. He even has tapes of nirvana from their second night of their first tour.
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Frog_Brother4 days ago
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I met a guy a few years ago who’s been doing the same thing, centered primarily on the Sacramento area.
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flower40004 days ago
+15
Exactly the same guy
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lordGwillen4 days ago
+7
Those need to be archived asap
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slaughterfodder4 days ago
+5
You should see if internet archive can digitize his collection as well
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Fuckoakwood4 days ago
+3
Yo where’s that nirvana show
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flower40004 days ago
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https://youtu.be/KVvJQfgRl7o?si=Tuvq9-83ruWt74Jf
Here you go! I have a shirt from this show. It’s my favorite shirt sadly it’s wearing down so it’s for special occasions only.
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Fuckoakwood4 days ago
+1
Thank you
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rgrossi5 days ago
+58
There’s a phish show from 1990 here that didn’t have a prior recording.. very cool
https://archive.org/details/ajc01505_phish_1990-11-09
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Oiggamed4 days ago
+7
Peak Phish.
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[deleted]5 days ago
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Perusing this is going to be a blast. We're about the same age and have a lot of taste overlap. already listening to one of my favorite bands from back in the day, Game Theory.
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Piney_Wood4 days ago
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It's funny how the AP is covering this considering bootlegging used to be treated as the downfall of civilization.
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Yuleogy4 days ago
+6
It’s illegal until you get away with it 10,000 times. 🙄
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Appropriate_Term44995 days ago
+7
Wow he has amazing taste!
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mosi_moose4 days ago
+6
He’s got some insane shows in that collection. Dinosaur Jr from 1989?!
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themindisthewater4 days ago
+4
oh shit a mojo nixon show from 1987 😃
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djutopia4 days ago
+7
Well that collection don’t need fixin’
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Gutterfoolishness4 days ago
+3
JUST YOU AND ME, PUNK ROCK GIRRRRRL
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themindisthewater4 days ago
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[Boogie Down Productions Cabaret Metro 1988](https://archive.org/details/ajc02338_bdp1988-05-18/bdp1988-05-18t03.flac)
this shit slaps
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Perspicasiwhip4 days ago
+1
Krs-one?
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Independent-Slip5685 days ago
+3
Holy c***… the page scrolls, and scrolls, and scrolls some more. So much here.
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AmcillaSB5 days ago
+3
And that's only \~20% of it. Pretty wild. My questions are 1) Is this guy deaf from over 10k concerts? and 2) how are those boards and cinder blocks holding up all those records? vinyl is heavy!
Nope. Definitely wouldn’t find that in the article. /s
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zEeXUrqVR7DeM7M8yac34 days ago
+1
What.cd would have gone crazy with this
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Bizarrebazaars4 days ago
+1
Thank you for all the recordings, Aadam Jacobs!
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worksnake4 days ago
+1
I’m seeing about 2,400 shows in the link provided in several comments. What am I doing wrong, where are the rest of the 10,000?
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Empty_Estus4 days ago
-6
I feel that this just encourages the assholes with their iPhones out for the whole gig, holding it up and blocking your view.
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draculasbitch4 days ago
+6
Yes. Because bringing a cassette deck with directional microphones and setting up near the soundboard away from people to get clean sound is the same as someone in section 107 row 22 seat 9 holding up their phone while mugging for a selfie.
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Empty_Estus4 days ago
+1
But it’s not mugging for a selfie is it, it’s people videoing the whole show and watching it through a viewfinder, at every single gig.
It’s a nuisance. Is that what this guy did? No. But I suspect that it emboldens the people who do.
Every single gig I go to, there’s always a phone or two annoyingly in the way. Just experience the gig. Nobody is going to watch your shitty iPhone footage. You’re there, enjoy the moment.
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