By Josh DuBose, KDVR-TV Denver, KTLA | The music collection of a 59-year-old Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded them on cassette tapes is slowly being digitized and released online for free. Like many GenX kids, Aadam Jacobs used cassette tapes to record music off the radio, but it wasn’t until 1984 that he met someone who suggested sneaking a tape recorder into a music venue to record concerts.
“I was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,” he said in a recent interview with the Associated Press.
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Once complete, the recordings are uploaded to the Internet Archive, where they are listed as the Aadam Jacobs Collection within the Live Music Archive and can be accessed for free.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
When it comes to copyright, Jacobs said most artists he recorded are pleased to have their work preserved in such an unusual way. In the one or two cases where musicians did not want their recordings included, he said he is happy to remove them.
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Read more about this daring action:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/he-recorded-10-000-concerts-on-tape-now-they-re-streaming-for-free/
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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