A music fan from Chicago who has collected live recordings of over 10,000 gigs is to put them all online for free.
The fellow in question is Aadam Jacobs, who started his hobby way back in 1989 when he smuggled a pocket sized dictaphone into a Nirvana gig. Back then taping shows was very much frowned upon by promoters – indeed, in the pre-internet era, recording and then selling C90s to fans was a nice little sideline for many a budding entrepreneur. But Jacobs had no interest in turning a profit and after a while he gained a reputation as a much-loved fixture of the Chicago live scene – the ‘taper guy’.
