Huh. Quite the collection of live recordings. Chicago Tape Guy did 40 years of recording 10,000+ concerts. Raw, early-career sets from Nirvana (their 1989 Chicago debut!), R.E.M., The Cure, Sonic Youth, Bangles, Cardigans, Tracy Chapman, and Björk. Some good and interesting listening, reasonable quality for live recordings.

https://aadamjacobscollection.org/

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Chicago Reader: A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home. “Jacobs taped concerts for his own satisfaction. Though he sometimes shared his recordings with the musicians, even giving them copies for free, in most cases no one else heard them. … In 2023, the Chicago Underground Film Festival debuted a documentary about Jacobs by Katlin Schneider called Melomaniac. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/08/chicago-reader-a-private-collection-of-10000-chicago-show-tapes-finds-a-public-home/