Glad they're uploading it publicly and not to some private torrent trackers like Concertos
Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
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Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#12So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?
Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#13I remember when a collection like this had to be kept secret, otherwise the recording labels would sue. Nobody cares anymore?
I think the new model with music is they don't make a very serious attempt to keep a monopoly on the content. They only really care about a monopoly on convenience. If anyone would set up some convenient way to stream these concert recordings they would get sued to oblivion. But the recordings circulating as inconvenient downloads? Not a big target.
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#14I saw Aadam at almost every show I went to in the early aughts, and he recorded a few of my shows, too! Great guy!
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#15The 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.
Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#16So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?
Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer
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#17The stuff that never got officially released is always the most interesting. Live recordings capture something the studio versions were never trying to.
Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#18https://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! Donate to the IA here: https://archive.org/donate
Just got an email this morning saying my monthly $3 donation went through, and this article reminded me how the internet archive is truly the internet’s library and very worthwhile to support
Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#19The 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.
Interesting! Cleaning up digitized recordings or starting from the tape source?
Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
#20So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?
Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer
Just a fan who became well known and often got in for free - https://chicagoreader.com/music/tapehead/