{"id":1873868,"date":"2026-04-09T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873868"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:50:18","slug":"from-nirvana-to-tracy-chapman-a-fans-recordings-of-over-10000-concerts-are-being-preserved-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873868","title":{"rendered":"From Nirvana to Tracy Chapman: A fan&#8217;s recordings of over 10,000 concerts are being preserved online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/1200x675_cmsv2_99f3820b-2ab4-5b69-9383-657d8b426af4-9715650.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2884897-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2884897\" data-cid=\"9715757\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2884897-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/68\/96\/71\/189x106_cmsv2_0ade2120-58b5-54bd-9448-7828124035b4-9689671.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"FILE - 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Huh\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspAnushka Roy&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbsp<b>AP<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1775735418\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-04-09 13:50:18 +02:00\">09\/04\/2026 &#8211; 13:50 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire-popup-overlay js-c-article-partage-commentaire-popup-overlay u-display-none\">\n<div id=\"js-c-article-partage-commentaire-popup\" 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loading=\"lazy\"><span>Threads<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/vector\/social-icons\/article-redesign-threads.svg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"threads\" class=\"u-show-for-desktop\" loading=\"lazy\"><span class=\"u-display-flex u-gap-1 u-show-for-mobile-only\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/vector\/social-icons\/article-redesign-whatsapp.svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"whatsapp\" loading=\"lazy\"><span>Whatsapp<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/vector\/social-icons\/article-redesign-whatsapp.svg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"whatsapp\" class=\"u-show-for-desktop\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"c-article-summary\">\n        A music fan from Chicago taped thousands of concerts over four decades. These recordings are now being uploaded to an online archive that can be freely accessed.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--culture js-article-content\">\n<p>It\u2019s the summer of 1989 in Chicago, and music fan Aadam Jacobs starts to record a live concert with a small Sony cassette recorder in his pocket. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The gig is a fledgling rock band\u2019s debut show at the small club called Dreamerz. Before they start playing, the band\u2019s lead singer announces to the crowd: \u201cHello, we&#8217;re Nirvana. We&#8217;re from Seattle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This early tape of the global rock sensation Nirvana, over two years before the release of their celebrated second album &#8216;<strong>Nevermind<\/strong>&#8216;, is one of more than 10,000 concerts recorded by Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>Now, volunteers in the US and across Europe are organising, digitising, and uploading these tapes onto the Aadam Jacobs Collection, hosted on the non-profit online repository Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<p>The tapes were recorded over four decades and document musical acts from the 1980s through to the early 2000s. From R.E.M. and The Cure to Tracy Chapman, Jacobs&#8217; collection is a treasure trove of early-career performances from celebrated artists and hidden gems from smaller musicians.<\/p>\n<p>After filmmaker Katlin Schneider\u2019s 2023 documentary about Jacobs titled <em>Melomaniac<\/em> (aptly named after someone afflicted with music-mania), a volunteer from Internet Archive reached out to him, asking if he would like to preserve his collection. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore all the tapes started not working because of time, just disintegrating, I finally said yes,\u201d Jacobs said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/808x539_cmsv2_656d1125-927f-555c-ae95-ae02d92f6f5c-9715650.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Aadam Jacobs plays a LP (long play) record at his home in Chicago, United States, March 19, 2026.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Aadam Jacobs plays a LP (long play) record at his home in Chicago, United States, March 19, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">From Kurt Cobain&#8217;s death to Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s Illuminati ties: The weirdest music conspiracy theories<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Forensic experts\u2019 new report claims that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jacobs began this labour-of-love in 1984, recording a concert on a Dictaphone-type device that he borrowed from his grandmother. As a teenager who would tape songs off the radio, Jacobs recalls how someone suggested an alternative: \u201cI eventually met a fellow who said, \u2018You can just take a tape recorder into a show with you, just sneak it in, record the show.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s cool.\u2019 So I got started.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He purchased a Sony Walkman-style recorder soon after. \u201cI was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,\u201d he said. Later, Jacobs moved onto digital audio tape and solid-state digital recorders. <\/p>\n<p>Today, digitizing and archiving the numerous boxes of Jacobs\u2019 tapes is a work-in-progress. Once a month, Brian Emerick &#8211; who is tasked with transferring the analog recordings to digital files &#8211; travels to Jacobs\u2019 house and picks up 10 to 20 boxes, each containing between 50 to 100 tapes. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6685\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/808x539_cmsv2_a331fef8-90e3-5f26-b5d4-d1f6f46ffd7d-9715650.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Emerick poses with his recorded tapes for a photo at his home in Des Plaines, United States, March 19, 2026.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Brian Emerick poses with his recorded tapes for a photo at his home in Des Plaines, United States, March 19, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Why does anyone buy cassettes? Meet the music fans who swear by tape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The digital files Emerick produces are then sent to volunteers who mix and master the recordings before they are uploaded to the online collection. Emerick has digitised at least 5,500 tapes since late 2024. <\/p>\n<p>As for copyright concerns, Jacobs said that most artists are glad to have their work preserved but he\u2019s happy to remove recordings if requested &#8211; though only one or two musicians have asked for that till date. <\/p>\n<p>David Nimmer, a copyright attorney who also teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that artists own their live recordings and original compositions under anti-bootlegging laws, but lawsuits seem unlikely as neither Jacobs nor the archive is profiting off of them. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6685\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/808x539_cmsv2_7722ae5b-d0d3-5eae-869e-e429e103d540-9715650.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Emerick plays a recorded tape at his home in Des Plaines, United States, March 19, 2026.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Brian Emerick plays a recorded tape at his home in Des Plaines, United States, March 19, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Nam Y. Huh<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Museum criticized for Nirvana exhibition saying Kurt Cobain &#8216;un-alived himself&#8217;<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Exploring Kurt Cobain\u2019s overlooked social activism \u2013 30 years since his death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many of Jacobs\u2019 recordings are of impressive quality, which came as a happy surprise to volunteer engineers like Neil deMause, considering Jacob was not using top-of-the-line recording equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially after the first couple years, he&#8217;s got it so dialed in that some of these recordings, on, like, crappy little cassette tapes from the early 90s, sound incredible,\u201d deMause said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/808x539_cmsv2_d65446ec-077c-523a-b811-5507ae14b502-9715650.jpg\" alt=\"Aadam Jacobs poses in front of LP (long play) record storage bookcase at his home in Chicago, United States, March 19, 2026.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Aadam Jacobs poses in front of LP (long play) record storage bookcase at his home in Chicago, United States, March 19, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Nam Y. 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<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2882711-pos5-mostViewed\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-3 m-modeDesktop-3 m-modeXL-3 the-media-object--has-related the-media-object--no-label\" data-nid=\"2882711\" data-cid=\"9705337\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    The seventh 007: Identity of the new James Bond revealed<br \/>\n  <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articleBody\" data-key=\"articleBody\">It\u2019s the summer of 1989 in Chicago, and music fan Aadam Jacobs starts to record a live concert with a small Sony cassette recorder in his pocket.The gig is a fledgling rock band\u2019s debut show at the small club called Dreamerz. Before they start playing, the band\u2019s lead singer announces to the crowd: \u201cHello, we&#8217;re Nirvana. We&#8217;re from Seattle.\u201dThis early tape of the global rock sensation Nirvana, over two years before the release of their celebrated second album &#8216;Nevermind&#8217;, is one of more than 10,000 concerts recorded by Jacobs.Now, volunteers in the US and across Europe are organising, digitising, and uploading these tapes onto the Aadam Jacobs Collection, hosted on the non-profit online repository Internet Archive.The tapes were recorded over four decades and document musical acts from the 1980s through to the early 2000s. From R.E.M. and The Cure to Tracy Chapman, Jacobs&#8217; collection is a treasure trove of early-career performances from celebrated artists and hidden gems from smaller musicians.After filmmaker Katlin Schneider\u2019s 2023 documentary about Jacobs titled Melomaniac (aptly named after someone afflicted with music-mania), a volunteer from Internet Archive reached out to him,\u00a0asking if he would like to preserve his collection.\u201cBefore all the tapes started not working because of time, just disintegrating, I finally said yes,\u201d Jacobs said.\u00a0Jacobs began this labour-of-love in 1984, recording a concert on a Dictaphone-type device that he borrowed from his grandmother. As a teenager who would tape songs off the radio, Jacobs recalls how someone suggested an alternative: \u201cI eventually met a fellow who said, \u2018You can just take a tape recorder into a show with you, just sneak it in, record the show.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s cool.\u2019 So I got started.&#8221;\u00a0He purchased a Sony Walkman-style recorder soon after. \u201cI was using, at times, pretty lackluster equipment, simply because I had no money to buy anything better,\u201d he said. Later, Jacobs moved onto digital audio tape and solid-state digital recorders.\u00a0Today, digitizing and archiving the numerous boxes of Jacobs\u2019 tapes is a work-in-progress. Once a month, Brian Emerick &#8211; who is tasked with transferring the analog recordings to digital files &#8211; travels to Jacobs\u2019 house and picks up 10 to 20 boxes, each containing between 50 to 100 tapes.\u00a0The digital files Emerick produces are then sent to volunteers who mix and master the recordings before they are uploaded to the online collection. Emerick has digitised at least 5,500 tapes since late 2024.\u00a0As for copyright concerns, Jacobs said that most artists are glad to have their work preserved but he\u2019s happy to remove recordings if requested &#8211; though only one or two musicians have asked for that till date.\u00a0David Nimmer, a copyright attorney who also teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that artists own their live recordings and original compositions under anti-bootlegging laws, but lawsuits seem unlikely as neither Jacobs nor the archive is profiting off of them.\u00a0Many of Jacobs\u2019 recordings are of impressive quality, which came as a happy surprise to volunteer engineers like Neil deMause, considering Jacob was not using top-of-the-line recording equipment.\u201cEspecially after the first couple years, he&#8217;s got it so dialed in that some of these recordings, on, like, crappy little cassette tapes from the early 90s, sound incredible,\u201d deMause said.As the Aadam Jacobs Collection is slowly and painstakingly being pieced together, melomaniacs around the world can indulge in these time capsules, spanning four decades of musical experimentation and refinement.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/04\/09\/from-nirvana-to-bjork-a-fans-recordings-of-over-10000-concerts-are-being-preserved-online&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/56\/50\/1200x675_cmsv2_99f3820b-2ab4-5b69-9383-657d8b426af4-9715650.jpg&#8221;] Tech News Court rejects Anthropic appeal over US national security risk label Iran Pro-Iran groups use AI to troll Trump and try to control war narrative Earth News Inside Portugal&#8217;s \u20ac111m battle to stop its beaches from vanishing Travel News Solomon Islands tourism rebounds: What to see in the island nation Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-1873868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}