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My winner of the weekend is a guy named Adam Jacobs, who has secretly recorded over 10,000 concerts spanning four decades, creating a heck of a music archive in the process.
This story went viral over the weekend.
Jacobs started this side project in Chicago back in 1984, and a few years later snuck a Sony cassette recorder in to go see a little band from Seattle play their debut show, his surreptitious recording of Nirvana.
predated their global breakthrough and set Jacobs on a path towards becoming an unexpected music folk hero.
Over the ensuing years, Jacobs amassed a enviable archive of indie and punk rock, recording concerts from R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and more.
Along the way, he became known in the scene.
In the beginning, some venue owners gave him a hard time for sneaking in increasingly complex recording devices, but after a while, seeing that his intentions were that of a pure music lover,
He became the taper guy, and venues started letting him in for free.
Now his archive is being digitized and hosted for free on the Internet Archive, preserving the giant catalog of his live shows for future generations to enjoy.
Neil, so far, about 5,500 tapes have been digitized, with thousands more to go.
Volunteers across the world are still hard at work doing just that.
There's something in the way that this is bringing the music community together.
It is very interesting, those capes that he got, the concerts that he got on tape.
There's a 1990 Phish show that was unreleased to everyone.
And now that it's on the line, Phish devotees are going crazy for it.
There is a 1988 concert from Boogie Down Productions that people had never heard before.
So people are literally going crazy for the findings that are unearthed in this collection.