Shot: guy tapes 10k Chicago area indie live shows, doesn't know what to do with em
https://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/taping-guy/

Chaser: put em on the Archive of course https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs

Edit: @livetapes will now announce all new additions to this collection (plus many more, it's a busy robot) so if you want to stay up to date with new uploads check that out

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Chicago’s Hidden Indie Rock Archive

Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.

@mrcompletely Wow! Is there a story about how these are getting up on the archive???
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

@mrcompletely lol that "About" page has a quote from Jacobs that they attribute to my website, but we were just quoting (and linking to) a Chicago Reader article by Bob Mehr:

https://chicagoreader.com/music/tapehead/

Tapehead

After 20 years of recording live shows, club crawler Aadam Jacobs throws himself a party at Schubas.

Chicago Reader