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they may count the opening acts as separate concerts
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Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
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#62I saw Aadam at almost every show I went to in the early aughts, and he recorded a few of my shows, too! Great guy!
Did he come from an old-money wealthy family? How did he find the time and money to be an unofficial cultural archivist?
“I was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,” he said. Later, he moved on to digital audio tape, or DAT, and, as technology progressed, to solid-state digital recorders."
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#63As rule, reading the comments on an article is a terrible idea. But quichelorraine123 had a good one.
“...I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Beach Boys.
All the underground hits.
All the Modern Lovers tracks.
I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s…”
…excerpt of lyrics from LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge”
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Cassettes are a pain. Head alignment is extremely important for analog tape fidelity, and it's always off for home recordings. With pro analog tape recordings (e.g. 2-inch 24 track, half-inch 2-track), you record alignment tones onto the tapes to capture the state of the recording device, and then later calibrate the playback device to the particular tape so that playback alignment matches recording alignment. But th…
Interestingly, the Nakamichi Dragon is/was a cassette deck that can do automatic azimuth adjustment on playback -- without having recorded tones to work with. In loose terms: It does this with a special read head that splits one of the recorded tracks into 2 distinct signals (for a total of 3 signals from 1 stereo recording). The split tracks' signals are compared, and it adjusts the azimuth (by minutely rotating the…
I don't miss cassettes one bit, but I really miss marketing literature that reads like that. A masterpiece in itself.
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#65"... 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadam_Jacobs He began to attend and record 15 concerts each month, and has said "It went pretty quickly from just being an occasional thing to something I did far too often." So his average is every other day. Also, most concerts / shows have more than one act. I went to an MF DOOM show back in the day at a small club with FIVE opening acts, and then DOOM had THREE more openers in his se…
Wu-tang + run the jewels sounds like a hell of a show.
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#67Found 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…
I mean, I thought They Might Be Giants were kinda well known?
I have heard of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and My Bloody Valentine (although I may be thinking of Bullet For My Valentine), though I don't own any of their albums and I can't recall where I know them from. I think both of them were mentioned in some absolute Z-tier fanfic I read once.
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#68Does anyone know how to find the hiphop/rap shows?
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#69It is genuinely hard to create anything in the music area now, even music itself. I grew up as a kid when music reached its peak and started declining - 1990s-2000s. Frankly, it i very sad because new generation is missing on something very big and good now. I listen to some new stuff and its literally created for robots, not humans. I call it zombie music because it is hard to recognize the difference between artist…
You might find this paper interesting: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-022-09626-7 ".. preferences for popular music peak during early adolescence or mid-to-late teens, and that newer or older tracks do not command this same level of affection." Most people generally don't like new music because it doesn't evoke the same emotions as what we heard at that heightened period of our lives. Musicians have…
This. GP is just old. I'm 51 one now and almost everyone I know seems to think the same thing. Unless you work at it, music later in life will never evoke the same emotions as those from when you were in your late teens/early 20s. Thing is though, it's really not true and if you work at it you realise pretty quickly that music today is just as good as it was at any time in the last 50 years (though I will concede that we'll probably never get the highs of the late 60s and early 70s ever again - if you were a teenager then, ok. Music now is definitely better than in the 80s though dude).
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This is disposative.
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An arrogant anesthesiologist is boring cliche by the way. It’s this likely site has many, many people considerably smarter than you.
Turn down the arrogance no one gives a shit what you used to be able to do.