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Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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"... 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 set time. That's 9 total acts on one night. Even the sprawling wu-tang tour last year had run the jewels as an opener.

Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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"... 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.

they may count the opening acts as separate concerts

This is disposative.

Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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I remember when a collection like this had to be kept secret, otherwise the recording labels would sue. Nobody cares anymore?

Everybody still cares, so you should get them while they last. Nobody who cares has noticed and maybe won't notice for a while, or it won't be in the budget to go after IA after just hitting them. The only protection these probably have is that they are recordings of real bands, and the bands that later became corporate darlings are in the minority - and labels like Touch & Go and other Midwest indies not only probably don't exist anymore and are not interested, but also don't control any of the publishing for the people who put out albums on their labels.

But the ones playing the music are all very old people now, and many of them have likely sold their publishing to the our blob overlords for a pittance. If massive multinational media corporations can make it difficult to figure out what they might have a claim to, it will end up easier to take the whole thing down. They attacked IA last time based on wax cylinders.

The reason orgs like the RIAA exist is to take PR hits for the industry; they will eventually demand they be taken down and probably make claims based on the length of time they were hosted. Get what you want while you can, although if you're a Millennial/Gen Z hipster you won't know any of it because it wasn't marketed to you (or anyone, it was just music, we enjoyed it.)

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edit: Looking through the list, I remembered how awful Chicago shows at the big clubs were, how Metro banned punk rock, and how I only ever went to those places to see touring bands that managed to get an opening spot for some A&R industry plant. Most of these are not good, and tons of them have all of their publishing owned by multinationals. It's the kind of selection you'd expect from somebody who thought that Bleach-era Nirvana was just alright and stalked Pavement.

Was happy to see a bunch of Fireside Bowl shows, but it looks like he dodged the good ones. This is almost pure "indy." I bet anybody could still find 100 that they'd like though so I don't want to seem too negative. This is mostly Gen X mainstream suburban hipster music.

Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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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…

It is an utterly amazing collection, although not the era I am the most familiar with. However, let me add a few as I love your initiative and went through them all and skimmed the ones below to get a sense of the quality.

Billy Bragg:

* https://archive.org/details/ajc02362_bbragg1986-12-04.ajcpro...

* https://archive.org/details/ajc02359_bbragg1988-05-06.ajcpro...

Not the cleanest vocals on either of the recordings, but the former is overall higher quality from what I could tell.

Boogie Down Productions:

* https://archive.org/details/ajc02338_bdp1988-05-18

Excellent recording and great live act, just a pity that it is rather short.

Mojo Nixon:

* https://archive.org/details/ajc02226_mojonixon-skidroper1987...

Another great live act and recording. I am sure Mojo would very much approve of this being shared as well.

Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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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…

> 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. :)

Fast Car was terrific, thanks for sharing! It is especially amazing considering this recording was made in 1988, just one month and one day (how poetic!) after Fast Car was released as a single.

Re: Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

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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…

> 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. :) Fast Car was terrific, thanks for sharing! It is especially amazing considering this recording was made in 1988, just one month and one day (how poetic!) after Fast Car was released as a single.

Yeah. :)

"Talkin' Bout A Revolution" is in there as well, and some stuff marked as "unreleased".

The entire Tracy Chapman recording there is actually really well put together. The volunteers who did the work to transfer it from cassette and clean it up, did an outstanding job on this one.

> Recorded by: Aadam Jacobs

> Transferred by: Brian E

> Mastered by: Dennis Orr

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