Some of you are probably familiar with a little game that was popular in the 1990's -The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It was a fun parlor game where one player picks an actor or director or maybe even a hairdresser or whatever and then the other player tries to connect that person to Kevin Bacon through films. Then the player's score is how many films were used to conenct the person to Kevin Bacon.
For example: Paul Erdös was in a documentary "N Is a Number", from 1993, with Ronald Graham, who was in Penn Jillette's "Director's Cut" in 2016 with Dave Johnson, who was in "Frost/Nixon" in 2018 with Kevin Bacon. So, Paul Erdös can be connected to Kevin Bacon using two films.
This was modeled after a "game" based off of Mathematician Paul Erdös, who I used as an example. The original "game" was something people who published academic articles did, counting how many collaborative papers were required, in minimum, to connect themselves to Paul Erdös.
For example: I wrote a paper with V. M. Petrov, who wrote a paper with V. M. Mostepanenko, who wrote a paper with Andrei A. Grib, who wrote a paper with Andrei Yu Khrennikov, who wrote a paper with David M Avis, who wrote a paper with Paul Erdös, giving me an "Erdös number" of six.
With me so far? Where am I going with this?
So, before you decide this is the wrong subforum, I was thinking about a musician version of this game. Kevin Bacon has not only been in a boatload of films, but he's been in a diverse selection of films, so he's perfect for this sort of game. Paul Erdös collaborated with quite a few authors, but mainly he collaborated with a diverse selection of authors.
There are millions of musicians, and tens of thousands of them have published collaborative works. Who would be a high profile musician, though, who collaborated with other high profile musicians of a diverse number of genres? Derek Sherinian? Buckethead? LL Cool J? Weird Al Yankovic?!
For example: Paul Erdös was in a documentary "N Is a Number", from 1993, with Ronald Graham, who was in Penn Jillette's "Director's Cut" in 2016 with Dave Johnson, who was in "Frost/Nixon" in 2018 with Kevin Bacon. So, Paul Erdös can be connected to Kevin Bacon using two films.
This was modeled after a "game" based off of Mathematician Paul Erdös, who I used as an example. The original "game" was something people who published academic articles did, counting how many collaborative papers were required, in minimum, to connect themselves to Paul Erdös.
For example: I wrote a paper with V. M. Petrov, who wrote a paper with V. M. Mostepanenko, who wrote a paper with Andrei A. Grib, who wrote a paper with Andrei Yu Khrennikov, who wrote a paper with David M Avis, who wrote a paper with Paul Erdös, giving me an "Erdös number" of six.
With me so far? Where am I going with this?
So, before you decide this is the wrong subforum, I was thinking about a musician version of this game. Kevin Bacon has not only been in a boatload of films, but he's been in a diverse selection of films, so he's perfect for this sort of game. Paul Erdös collaborated with quite a few authors, but mainly he collaborated with a diverse selection of authors.
There are millions of musicians, and tens of thousands of them have published collaborative works. Who would be a high profile musician, though, who collaborated with other high profile musicians of a diverse number of genres? Derek Sherinian? Buckethead? LL Cool J? Weird Al Yankovic?!
I also played in a comedy metal band with a dude who played in a lot of indie bands, so I'm probably connected to the Indie scene that way. As a kid, I played in a band that played one gig with a guy who played with Kung Fu Diesel, which has connections with Ted Nugent... and I'm certain that none of those people even remember who I am. 
