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I swear on my Mom's life I've never said anything but good things about her as a person lmao this was genuinely surprising to me. I've gone out of my way to defend her whenever weird ass dudes talked shit about her in my chat too smh. Cold world.
Courtesy of @rhcpsessions & R&R HOF...
Two previously unknown songs from By The Way - Who Song and Cincinnati Kid. This document is from a vocal recording, which suggests the instrumental track was recorded too. They're out there somewhere!
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40 Years Of Pirate Tapes Discovered!
A Hidden Treasure Trove of Live Music History: The Aadam Jacobs Collection
Picture this: It’s 1984, you’re a wide-eyed kid in Chicago, sneaking a tiny cassette recorder into a dimly lit venue because some underground experimental band called AMM is playing. You have no idea this one impulsive act, borrowed from your grandma’s mini-cassette player, plopped at the foot of a couch: will kick off a lifelong obsession that ends up preserving thousands of raw, electric moments from the city’s music underground. That’s exactly how the Aadam Jacobs Collection began, and let me tell you, as someone who’s more of a casual history buff than a music archivist, stumbling across this story felt like finding a time capsule in my own backyard.
I’ve always loved the idea of history as lived experience, the sweat, the feedback, the imperfect magic of a show that only a few hundred people witnessed. But most of us never get to hear those nights again.
Enter the Aadam Jacobs Collection, now beautifully laid out at https://t.co/IVX7ab7gBP under the cheeky title A Mad Undertaking. It’s an “undefinitive guide” (his words, not mine) to one guy’s decades-long quest to tape live music, and it’s turning into one of the most exciting preservation projects I’ve come across.
Aadam Jacobs grew up glued to college radio stations, like me (WRSU, WPRB, WLBI) for him, WUSB’s Zappathon, Chicago’s Antidote Radio, WZRD, and WNUR; where DJs basically handed him the keys to whole new sonic worlds.
One night in May 1984, mentors pointed him toward an AMM concert. He dragged his mom along, bought a Cornelius Cardew score afterward, and secretly hit record. The result? A slightly incomplete but utterly alive 40-year-old document of free improvisation that still crackles with discovery.
From that humble start, Jacobs kept going—cassettes, DATs, CD-Rs—quietly amassing more than 10,000 recordings of Chicago’s emerging scenes and touring acts who were just passing through.
What makes this collection special isn’t just the volume (though 10,000+ tapes is mind-boggling). It’s the moments.
Think early Nirvana tearing through a 1989 Chicago set. Or Phish opening for Alex Chilton at Lounge Ax in 1990, the tape Jacobs recently recovered after more than 12,000 days in storage, now lovingly mastered so you can hear Trey Anastasio’s guitar slicing through “Possum” with youthful fire.
There are Hüsker Dü, Liz Phair, and local legends like The Coctails, that quirky instrument-swapping pop-jazz outfit that owned the Chicago scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And then there’s the whole wild Mekons universe side projects, reunions, benefit shows, and surreal collaborations that feel like insider secrets finally seeing daylight.
I love how this isn’t polished studio perfection. These are raw tapes, sometimes stealth-recorded, sometimes captured with whatever mics Jacobs could smuggle in.
The project team (volunteers across Chicago, Cleveland, Palo Alto, and beyond) is digitizing them with minimal fuss: a little compression here, some careful channel blending there, but always staying true to the original vibe.
Over 1,500 shows are already up on the Internet Archive’s Live Music Archive, with plans to keep rolling out 25–30 a day until the whole collection is online. In the first year alone, people streamed or downloaded the tapes more than 133,000 times.
That’s not just nostalgia; that’s living history.
What really hits me, though, is the bigger picture. Before smartphones and social media, live music existed in the moment, and then it was gone.
A handful of tapers like Aadam Jacobs quietly saved those nights for the rest of us. Now a team of passionate volunteers is racing the clock (and warehouse dust) to make sure we can all experience them again.
History isn’t always in textbooks. Sometimes it’s in a dusty box of cassettes.
It's our 10th anniversary today!
We plan on keeping the Live Archive alive for many years to come, continuing to add new features - any donations are incredibly helpful in keeping things going:
https://t.co/ZvAkAevKaI
Thank you for ten years of support❤️
Noah Schultz’ stats through 9 IP this season:
1.00 ERA
.44 WHIP
.074 AVG against
10 K
2-0 W/L
How long can the White Sox keep him in Triple-A before he gets the call????
Sam Antonacci stats through 5 games in Triple-A:
.350/.519/.650/1.169
2 HR
4 RBI / 5 R
6 BB / 1 K
3 SB
I think it’s possible we will be seeing Antonacci in the Show soon‼️
@savemeishbia Prediction: Dodgers are waiting to see negotiations with Freddie, If he is traded (Muni) at all he will not sign an extension with any team other than Dodgers. I really think we get one season with him on the SouthSide
@thehdroom@MUTGuru dont mean to bombared you but these sales dont happened often enough, usually in the winter there will be buy 2 get 1. I usually add all the movies im interested in to an Amazon "save for later". I check the movies Im interested in against my "save for later"