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The Career, in Data
Every show Bill has played across his bands — counted, charted, and mapped.
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The estimated total is Bill's own figure for the early eras, which the archive cannot reach: band by band, 1985 to 2007. Documented means an event with a date in the archive, recoverable from the internet, print, or Bill's records. Everything below this line counts only what is documented, except where a chart marks the estimate with cross-hatching.
The year on stage Every night of this year on a map, with the runs, the rooms and the songs. Open the year →Nuggets
Auto-surfaced superlatives from the archive.
Career totals
Shows over time
Each year, broken down by band. Toggle to the cumulative view to see the career build.
Shows per year
Decade by decade
Crossovers
Players who followed Bill across two or more of his bands.
Rooms are mapped and ranked on the Venues page.
Longest venue relationships
Rooms played across the widest stretch of years — the stages that have been there the whole way.
Comebacks
Longest a venue went quiet before a return.
New venues per year
First-time rooms each year — where the map kept growing.
Songs that crossed bands
Tunes Bill carried from one band into another — the segments show how the plays split across bands.