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April 10, 2026

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

  • The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000.
    • By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh [enlarge]
    Aadam Jacobs poses in front of record storage bookcase at his home in Chicago. Jacobs surreptitiously recorded an early Nirvana performance, documenting the fledgling band more than two years before their global breakthrough.

    On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago.


     
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