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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! Donate to the IA here: https://archive.org/donate
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. :) --- * 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. :) --- * Ben Folds…
No Pixies, but The Amps have one appearance: https://archive.org/details/ajc02207_amps1995-10-31 The performance is ... "uneven"
And four stunning Guided by Voices sets, of which the best is https://archive.org/details/ajc00711_gbv-1999-12-10/GBV1999-...
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! Donate to the IA here: https://archive.org/donate
Before then heroine and fame took over Kurt
this reminds me of the old internet
> “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 )
59-year-old Aadam [sic] Jacobs made his first recording 42 years ago in 1984 when he was 17.
He would have had to average 238 recordings/concerts per year — nearly 5/week — over those 42 years to accumulate 10,000 of them.
"... fan's recordings of 10k concerts..." 59-year-old Aadam [sic] Jacobs made his first recording 42 years ago in 1984 when he was 17. He would have had to average 238 recordings/concerts per year — nearly 5/week — over those 42 years to accumulate 10,000 of them.