Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
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by geox
3 days ago
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| apnews.com
| HN
rwmj
4 hours ago
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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!

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mannyv
11 minutes ago
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The 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.
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throwaway2046
2 hours ago
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Absolutely amazing collection, and it has lossless FLACs too! Many thanks to the fans and IA for making this possible.

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soumyaskartha
6 minutes ago
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The stuff that never got officially released is always the most interesting. Live recordings capture something the studio versions were never trying to.
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selfsimilar
33 minutes ago
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I 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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Myzel394
1 hour ago
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Glad they're uploading it publicly and not to some private torrent trackers like Concertos
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sassymuffinz
1 hour ago
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So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?
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jgtrosh
6 minutes ago
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Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer
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justinclift
3 hours ago
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exossho
3 hours ago
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this reminds me of the old internet
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menno-dot-ai
3 hours ago
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I don't know, I also feel like 'data hoarding' is something that's been getting more popular in recent years. Maybe because the ephemerality of the internet is starting to show.
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farfatched
2 hours ago
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It's not the data hoarding that reminds me of the old Internet.

It's one person's curated collection.

It's it being made available for the sake of it.

It's novel, unexpected. a gift.

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bsenftner
1 hour ago
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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?
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dzdt
55 minutes ago
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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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ktallett
2 hours ago
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Some fantastic albums here. Clearly dedicated to his craft of recording. There are still a few quality bootleg bloggers out there that give me hope the web can still be special and enjoyable.
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