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The Career, in Data
Every show Bill has played across his bands — counted, charted, and mapped.
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These counts cover the verifiable archive — shows recoverable from the internet, print, and Bill's own records. The true career total is likely closer to 1,000+ shows; the bulk happened before the era of reliable record-keeping and aren't searchable today. What's here is what can be confirmed.
Milestones
Nuggets
Auto-surfaced superlatives from the archive.
On this day
Shows that happened on today's date in years past.
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
Every date I've ever played
Each cell is a calendar date (month down, day across), shaded by how many times Bill has played that date across the career. Hover a cell for the shows. "Have I ever played March 17?"
Crossovers
Players who followed Bill across two or more of his bands.
Rarest lineups
Performances ranked by the rarest player on the bill — the one-off guests and subs who make a lineup one-of-a-kind.
Every stage on the map
Top cities
By state
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.
Band rotation over the years
How Bill's bands traded off across the calendar — each ribbon a band, its width that year's show count.
Where songs land in the set
Each song's set-position fingerprint — left is an opener, right is a closer. Brighter cells are where it tends to fall.
Songs that crossed bands
Tunes Bill carried from one band into another — the segments show how the plays split across bands.
The bandmate constellation
Bill's collaborators as a network — dots sized by shows, joined when they shared a stage. Clusters are bands. Drag a dot to explore.