No, this is not an April Fool’s joke or is it? There is actually a web site (not blog), Band to Band, that allows you to map the connections between rock bands. I dare you to try the link. You pick two bands and they will let you know who from one band played in another that included someone who played in another, etc. until the link is made. Fo example, it took eleven steps (bands) to connect T Rex and U2 but i ttook 14 steps to connect the British rock group, Queen, with Flatt & Scruggs, the country and western band. Think of the work to put this together. I am sure Freddy Mercury and Curly Seckler would have been grateful to know the connections.
Then, if click on a album you can see all the band members and what other albums they worked on, creating connections outside their core group.
Thanks to Ph. D. student in Human Ecology at Lund University in Sweden for pointing this out. I would give him credit but not sure his doctoral committee would want to know how he spends is time.
I should add that finding connections is more common that it seems and we all have many relationships. As a disclaimer on the post below on Thoreau's blog, I am a distant cousin of Henry through my great grandmother, a Dunbar, from Maine. Henry visted his Dunbar cousins when he went there. However, I have no known relationship to any of the above bands.
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