Aadam Jacobs, Chicago taper

By Jake Brown

February 27, 2004

A Chicago hero - "For two decades, Aadam Jacobs has been talking his way into about 15 gigs a month, setting up his microphones and deck and taping the performances for his private collection."

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"My passion is really to document something that's otherwise not being documented," he says. "It's more a desire to collect and archive this stuff. I'll make copies for the band if they ask for it, but a lot of the time I'll listen to something once and put it away for good."

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Ah. I came across this story in the dead tree version of the Reader... Sounds like my kind of guy - I sometimes feel like if I don't get one of our shows on MD, it didn't happen, haha.

• Joshua, Mar 2, 2004 9:44AM ∞

Wow! I'm not certain, but this could be the guy who was taping Husker Du shows ALL the time at Cubby Bear, Exit and Metro back in 1983-1984...

• Dfactor, Mar 2, 2004 11:06AM ∞

Yep, I've seen this guy always. It's cool to know both his name AND his m.o. What I wouldn't give to trawl through his archives...

...and no, that's not meant as a twisted sexual innuendo, you perverts!!! ;-)

• DJMurph, Mar 3, 2004 3:30PM ∞

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