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BTB network · The Shared Stage
The Shared Stage
35+ years of music — mapped. 211 musicians, a handful of key bridges, and the threads connecting it all across the BTB archive.
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Musician–Band edges
2,475
Event rows
342
Band relationships
211
Bill's 1st-degree connections
The connective tissue
Bridge musicians
A small number of musicians kept showing up across different projects and eras — the people who made Bill's musical world continuous. These are the bridges.
Bands × shared musicians
Connection map
Band
Shared musician
Each band is a dot, sorted left to right by when it started. Arcs connect bands that share musicians — thicker arc means more shared players. Hover any arc to see who the bridge is.
35+ years of music
Career timeline
Seven eras that define Bill's musical arc — from Origins through Semi-Retirement, the Bitteroots years, and into the New Chapter.
1987 – 1988
Origins
Uncle Mumford — high school band, keyboards. The first stage, the first network node.
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shows archived
1989 – 1992
College Era
540 West · Linch Pyn · New Found Daze — fraternity parties and the first taste of touring the Southeast.
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shows archived
1993 – 1994
The Heavy Years
New Found Daze in overdrive — 250+ shows in two years. Dense, relentless, and formative.
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shows archived
1994 – 2007
Semi-Retirement
Life happens. A handful of shows, limited music — the long pause before the return.
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shows archived
2008 – 2012
Bitteroots Vol. I
The comeback. The Bitteroots take shape, a new cast of collaborators, back on the road.
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shows archived
2013 – 2021
Bitteroots Vol. II
Extensive SE touring. The Core launched in 2017 as an Eric Clapton tribute. The network expands.
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shows archived
2022 – present
New Chapter
TributeABB · The Core (HORDE Festival Revival) · Wolves Lower (REM) · Jupiter Coyote. The orbit widens.
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shows archived
On the road
Band span
Musician bridge
Every band plotted against time. Arcs on the right show musicians who bridged multiple projects. Hover to explore.
Path explorer
Connection path
Bill
Band
Musician
Column A
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Select a node from Column A.
Connection path
Map two entities to show the shortest path between them.
The larger orbit hides in connection mode so the direct route is easier to read.
Column B
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Optional second node.
Direct bridges
1st-degree shared connections
Nodes directly connected to both selected targets.
Two-hop paths
2nd-degree connections
Shortest two-intermediary routes between Column A and Column B.
Three-hop paths
3rd-degree connections
Longer but still meaningful chains connecting the two targets.
Six degrees of Bill
Find the path
Search any musician or band in Column A. Add a second name in Column B and map the shortest connection path between them through the Shared Stage network.
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Bridges
Top bridge musicians
Musicians appearing across multiple BTB projects — the connective tissue of the orbit.
Constellations
Top band relationships
Band pairs ranked by real shared personnel first, then weighted relationship strength.
The network's anatomy
Scene clusters
The BTB orbit naturally forms around recurring ensembles. Each cluster is a gravity well — a band or project that pulled recurring collaborators into its own constellation.
Coming soon · TheSharedStage.com
Every musician has a network.
Every musician has a network.
Most of it is invisible.
The BTB archive is the seed dataset. The Shared Stage is what it points toward: a platform where any musician can map their career as a living graph — bands, collaborators, scenes, and the paths that connect them all.
Think of it as LinkedIn for your musical life, built around the real connective tissue of the music world: who you played with, when, in what project, and how those threads weave together across decades. The BTB archive is the first node. TheSharedStage.com is the network for everyone else.
Why this matters
The archive becomes a network
For the first time, the BTB archive is not only documenting shows — it is revealing the connective tissue between musicians, bands, and shared performance history. This page is the first public step toward the broader Shared Stage platform.