Beta 0.1 · The site reads the graph

Every musician has a network. Most of it is invisible.

The Shared Stage is building the map — a living graph of who played with whom, in what band, at what venue, across decades of live music history.

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The problem

Decades of shows.
Thousands of musicians.
Almost none of it mapped.

The gap

We know who
recorded together.
We have no idea who played together.

The fix

The Shared Stage
is built to change that.

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.

— events archived

— unique bands

— unique venues

— years covered

— shared-stage edges

See the full Scene Dashboard →

What it is

A relationship graph for live music.

Not a streaming service. Not a ticketing platform. A structured, time-aware map of musical relationships — built to be queried, explored, and grown by the community.

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Relationship Graph

Who played with whom, when, in what band, at what venue. Time-aware edges that reflect the fluid reality of working musicians — members, fill-ins, sit-ins.

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Scene Mapping

Geographic and temporal views of local scenes. Co-occurrence networks. How a city's music community is actually connected across eras and genres.

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Career Timelines

Band membership timelines that reflect reality — not a static bio, but a living record of who was in what project, and when.

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AI Scene Explorer

Natural language queries over the graph. "Show me everyone who shared a stage with X and also played with Y." No SQL required.

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Six Degrees

The shortest connection path between any two musicians through shared performances. The live music version of six degrees of separation.

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Community-Sourced

Contribute your history. The graph grows outward from every musician who adds their network — structured, moderated, and permanent.

How it works

Your history. Structured. Connected.

You contribute your musical history

Tell us about the bands you've been in, the musicians you've played with, the cities and venues. Rough memory is completely fine — we structure it from there.

It gets mapped to the canonical model

Events → Performances → Participants. Every musician, band, and venue is normalized, cross-referenced, and connected to existing records in the graph.

The graph grows outward

Your network adds new nodes and edges. Musicians you've played with connect to their own networks. The picture gets richer as more people contribute.

Everyone can explore the connections

Query the graph. Find the shortest path between any two musicians. Map scenes by city and era. Discover collaborators you didn't know you shared.

Beta 0.1 · Now open for contributors

Your network is already there.
Help us make it visible.

The Shared Stage starts with BillTaylorBass.com — 40 years of documented live music — as Node Zero. Every musician who contributes extends the graph outward. The map grows with every submission.

Contribute Your Musical History →

Currently in Beta 0.1. All contributions are reviewed before being added to the graph.