Niluccio on noise

The story of the "Chicago Tape Guy" Aadam Jacobs has apparently been knocking around for a few years, though I only came across it the other day via an Associated Press article .  Aadam Jacobs takes a break from taping (pic: Nam Y. Huh / AP) It's the story of how Jacobs recorded thousands of gigs in Chicago venues between 1984 and (I think) 2019. Thirty-five years of taking various recording devices into shows in Chicago, sometimes surreptitiously but mostly very openly, and building an impressive archive of recordings. He apparently now has more than 10,000 tapes (and files), some of the tapes comprising three separate gigs. According to Wikipedia , Jacobs may have as many as 30,000 concert recordings. The bootleg collection to end all bootleg collections. Back in 1984, a school friend apparently casually suggested he could "sneak" a recording device into the shows he was already attending, he gave it a go with his grandmother's cassette-dictaphone and ... ...