Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, WBEZCuriousCity reports, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.
on Navy Pier. Then one day, when he was 16 and a student at Evanston Township High School, a pal told him he could do more at concerts than just passively watch the show.
“It was pretty big,” Jacobs says. “There were times when I was bringing that tape deck on the train in a suitcase — and it was quite heavy.” He says, at the time, “no one really cared what you walked in with, and I didn’t make a whole lot of effort to hide things, either.”co-host Jim DeRogatis says most musicians on the scene back then just appreciated the interest. “[It was] the indie rock ’80s. Nobody cared. If you had a fanzine, if you were playing records on college radio, or just a fan, you were welcomed for your support and thanked.
“I let him in the club to tape the bands because he really wanted to,” she recalls. “He was very, very enthusiastic and very into it. And yeah, I let him in — underage.” “It was mind boggling to me that he taped shows at any other clubs because he was there every night,” Miller Tweedy says. Local band New Duncan Imperials play at Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville in 1989. Jacobs recorded several of their early shows.
Jacobs became a regular presence at Lounge Ax. Here he’s pictured with musicians and friends post-show in 1994. Jacobs stores all of his tapes in cardboard boxes in a closet. He rarely listens back to them after recording. The worst of it happened in the fall of ’89 and resulted in Jacobs’ expulsion from Metro for six years. Shanahan and Jacobs don’t agree on all the details leading up to his expulsion, or how certain incidents went down, but they both agree that it was a low point in their relationship.
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