We’re celebrating one year of the Aadam Jacobs Collection Project! 1,500+ shows uploaded, 133k streams, and countless rediscovered memories. Read our update on the journey - and what’s coming next, including rare gems like The Cure’s 1984 Chicago show.

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Project is still going strong but we need #Chicago people to transfer cassettes and DAT tapes. Preferrably from the Chicago area. If you have a #Nakamichi deck and some time to run them, please get in touch. No need to edit anything, just get tape in the digital domain. Please spread this word!

Our project has reached it first milestone of uploading 1000 shows from Aadam Jacobs his collection! To celebrate this we just uploaded a true gem. A uncirculated Phish show from 1990 in, you guessed it, Chicago! Here is the blogpost with all details.

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Hi Richard, well, as you know we do not talk about numbers in this project 😄😄

OTL #953: Chicago’s “Taping Guy,” The Surge Institute’s civil rights work Mike Stephen talks to Aadam Jacobs, a Chicagoan who has recorded thousands of local live music performances, about why he’s making his collection public and then discusses the ongoing civil rights …

Aadam Jacobs did an interview with a local Chicago radiostation about his recordings and the project to digitize them all at the Live Music Archive.

We have several volunteers working on the shows and publish new shows every day!

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Justin Roberts Live at Schubas Tavern 2014-05-25 : Justin Roberts : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Justin RobertsMay 25, 2014Schubas TavernChicagoRecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive** 16 BIT **Mastering: .FLAC > Traders Little...

@aadamjacobs.bsky.social also recorded comedy and kids shows. This is a great show from five-time Grammy® nominated children's musician Justin Roberts.

For the kids who were there that day at Schubas Tavern.

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Great article, thanks a lot!

A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home - Chicago Reader The Internet Archive begins posting the Aadam Jacobs Collection. Plus: Four locals heat up the dead of winter with new music.

I called up Chicago show taper Aadam Jacobs about @archive.org preserving his immense collection of live recordings with the @ajc-project.bsky.social

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It is great to finally get this project started. If you are interested in helping out in any way - editing, tracking, setlists, or general organization, please reach out to us. We have tens of thousands of recordings waiting to make it to your ears.

The collection of legendary #Chicago taper Aadam Jacobs is beginning to go up on @internetarchive. It's been added to the @livetapes feed. Check the first few dozen uploads here: https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs

@theeazita.bsky.social As you see we are missing a few songtitles. Forgive us. Do you mind identifying them?

No Tape Left Behind! A mad undertaking.