Nirvana's First Show & 10K+ Concerts Go Online

0:00On April 8th, picture this. Back on July 8th, 1989, a music fan named Adam Jacobs snuck a cassette recorder into a tiny Chicago. Club and captured Nirvana's very first show there. Kurt Cobain, just 20 years old, kicked it off with their track school. That raw tape, plus over 10,000 other concerts, Jacobs' bootleg to cross four decades, is now hitting the internet for free. Jacobs kicked off his recording habit in 1984 as a teen, borrowing his grandma's dictophone for his first gig. He upgraded from Chief Walkman's to digital gear over the years, hitting shows a few times a week in Chicago, and beyond. Club owners eventually let him slide in gratis as the regular taping guy. Fans are losing their minds over this treasure trove on the internet archive, especially rock, indie, and punk heads from the 80s through the early 2000s. You got early sets from REM, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Cure, even some hip-hop-like boogie-down productions, and a rare fish jam from 1990.

1:03Volunteers across the US and Europe are grinding through boxes of tapes, digitizing 5,500 plus shows so far with old school. Cosset decks they fixed themselves. They clean the audio, tag tracks, sometimes hunting down artists for setless help and upload it all. Some musicians dig the preservation with just a couple asking for takedowns. This collection keeps raw live history alive, from superstars humble starts to forgotten openers, all streamable now as Jacobs chills from health. Issues and taps into today's fan recordings online. That wraps entertainment and celebrity news today, brought to you with AI. I'm Corey with The Story.