Does anyone on here know who actually recorded or obtained the higher quality shows that are on this site and how they got access to them? Seems like up until about 2000 most shows archived here were just home tape recordings but around maybe mid-2000 they clearly switch to actual relatively stable and high quality board output recordings probably recorded to a DAT or rack-mounted CD burner (these are common in radio studios, or were at the time).
It’s honestly MOST of the shows on here and I swear I heard once that Dr Bruce might be in some way responsible for stepping up and making the effort to preserve these high(er) quality recordings of the show. It would’ve had to have been some interested third party, because at the time no one officially involved in the show had any interest in preserving and archiving full shows. But then again I wonder if the station/studio had some kind of auto or backup recording setup going for every show, just to have in case of some kind of emergency or whatever (like the Heidi Fleiss incident in the 90’s) and somehow this person or people were finally granted access to this backlog of auxiliary archived recordings.
Im sure copyright also played a role at the time and I’ve heard it’s why it’s so hard to get HQ mixes of any shows post-2005 when Adam left. Just curious!