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Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

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Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove
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Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove
In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.
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flower4000 Apr 8, 2026 +49
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_Brother Apr 8, 2026 +17
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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flower4000 Apr 8, 2026 +15
Exactly the same guy
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lordGwillen Apr 8, 2026 +7
Those need to be archived asap
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slaughterfodder Apr 8, 2026 +5
You should see if internet archive can digitize his collection as well
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Fuckoakwood Apr 8, 2026 +3
Yo where’s that nirvana show
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flower4000 Apr 9, 2026 +5
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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Fuckoakwood Apr 9, 2026 +1
Thank you
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rgrossi Apr 8, 2026 +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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Oiggamed Apr 8, 2026 +7
Peak Phish.
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[deleted] Apr 8, 2026 +17
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_Wood Apr 8, 2026 +20
It's funny how the AP is covering this considering bootlegging used to be treated as the downfall of civilization.
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Yuleogy Apr 8, 2026 +6
It’s illegal until you get away with it 10,000 times. 🙄
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Appropriate_Term4499 Apr 8, 2026 +7
Wow he has amazing taste!
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mosi_moose Apr 8, 2026 +6
He’s got some insane shows in that collection. Dinosaur Jr from 1989?!
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themindisthewater Apr 8, 2026 +4
oh shit a mojo nixon show from 1987 😃
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djutopia Apr 8, 2026 +7
Well that collection don’t need fixin’
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Gutterfoolishness Apr 9, 2026 +3
JUST YOU AND ME, PUNK ROCK GIRRRRRL
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themindisthewater Apr 8, 2026 +4
[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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Perspicasiwhip Apr 9, 2026 +1
Krs-one?
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Independent-Slip568 Apr 8, 2026 +3
Holy c***… the page scrolls, and scrolls, and scrolls some more. So much here.
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AmcillaSB Apr 8, 2026 +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!
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bonobro69 Apr 9, 2026 +3
Archive link: https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection
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Red5stayontarget Apr 8, 2026 +3
Does Lars Ulrich know about this yet?!?
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viveleramen_ Apr 8, 2026 +4
If you went to 1 concert every single day this would take almost 10 years. Crazy.
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Only_Dragonfruit_117 Apr 8, 2026 +6
Please show how you worked this out
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thesausboss Apr 8, 2026 +2
Yeah wait would it be much longer than 10 years if it's 10,000 concerts?
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viveleramen_ Apr 8, 2026 +1
I was half asleep lol. I did the 365x3 ≈ 1000, —>x10<— ≈ 10,000 and went “≈10 is the answer”, instead of ≈30.
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SkeletonWarSurvivor Apr 8, 2026 +2
It would take 27 to 28 years.
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Alternative-Half-783 Apr 8, 2026 +2
Is there a link.?. I wanna listen.
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lavransson Apr 8, 2026 +14
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection?sort=-downloads
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Old_Channel44 Apr 8, 2026 +2
Nope. Definitely wouldn’t find that in the article. /s
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zEeXUrqVR7DeM7M8yac3 Apr 8, 2026 +1
What.cd would have gone crazy with this
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Bizarrebazaars Apr 9, 2026 +1
Thank you for all the recordings, Aadam Jacobs!
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worksnake Apr 9, 2026 +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_Estus Apr 8, 2026 -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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draculasbitch Apr 8, 2026 +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_Estus Apr 9, 2026 +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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