New Archives And New Resource For Archivists **link added**







I woulda flipped over this if I saw the tape collection but to be honest the quality is pretty rough from the little bit I sampled. The taper was working as an usher and had inverted headphones as a microphone held in place by a wristband. So, not good for casual listening but possibly great stuff for historians and completists. And the number of Ethyl Meatplow shows available has increased by a statistically significant amount.

https://archive.org/details/@neekrive


And the tape collection detailed at  


https://chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-wolf/aadam-jacobs-collection-internet-archive-concert-recordings

is now being posted at

https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs

And there are more links to other articles in the above Chicago Reader piece.

Finally, I used to love reading boxscores in Billboard magazine and in the odd event I could score a copy of Pollstar magazine. This site now has dozens of back issues from 1993 to 2010. Plenty of gaps and some missing pages though. Great resource for tour date research and the like. I really like the older boxscores because it's great to gauge a band's popularity strictly by draw when all concerts were the same price and possible draw was maximized as in the more modern era when a certain financial target is reached thru ticket prices which can be scaled upward in a smaller venue.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Pollstar.htm

I have an issue from 1992 with KISS on the cover that I picked up at a booth the magazine at Foundations Forum Convention in addition to a from 1991 and 1993 and then hundreds from the 2000's when someone who rented an office in our building would give me the issues when he was done with them. If anybody has any past issues laying around please consider donating.



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  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM

    Are you saying that the quality of the recordings in the Aadam Jacobs collection is kind of rough? I might be misunderstanding something. He made really great recordings.

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM

      No, the San Francisco archive I totally forgot the link for

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM

    Thanks. There's definitely some things in the SF archive I've never seen before!

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  3. dont waste ur timeJanuary 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM

    i d/Ld about 10-15 shows and they ALL sucked. you would think a bottom of the hill or slims show might sound ok, but they were equally bad. bottom of the hill and slims dont have ushers, so he must have went on his own. i really dont think you can fix them. somebody said there was a smashing pumpkins show from a parking lot that was a holy grail show and that sounded good, but i doubt it. some day with ai we will be able to make pristine audio and video from bad audience tapes.

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM

      1 - Sound at Slim's always sucked (all that brick and glass), an audience recording from there is never great. Bottom of the Hill sound is OK, but nowhere near as good as, say, the Independent (which did not exist at the times these recordings were made).
      2 - Why did you have to get my hopes up? There are barely any club shows in the SF archive, it's 99% corporate/big-box venues like the Warfield, Fillmore & Shoreline. A trove of Bottom Of The Hill shows from this era would have been amazing.
      3 - Slim's and Bottom of the Hill both have doormen and other staff. I'm playing Bottom in a couple weeks, I could ask Ramona if she remembers this guy.
      4 - The one Fillmore set I downloaded (although I think it might be incomplete) sounds OK. Recorded with cheap microphone in a less-than-optimal location, sure, but I've heard far worse audience recordings from the 70s.

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  4. jason2582January 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM

    Wow. What a haul. Thanks

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  5. OrangejuliusJanuary 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM

    The Husker Du gigs sound good

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM

      some nice wire and calexico too
      thanks dan!\mL

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    2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM

      Supersuckers shows sound good enough, I've heard far worse recordings

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