[Hey everyone, remember this? If you played in bands in Gainesville in the 90s->early 00s, you probably knew about the Gainesville Band Family Tree. It went down about 15 years ago, but I found the code, stood it up on a webserver, and have made just enough changes to a) get it to work and b) disable new contributions. Everything else on this site is how it looked in 2005 or so when I took it down. I hope you enjoy cruising it again. Parts are probably broken, email me if you see a bug. -- Don]

It is with great excitement and trepidation that I
Welcome you to the Latest Version of the Gainesville Band Family Tree!

• My apologies, while I iron out the details, for:
  • Parts of the site that aren't explained, well or at all. I'll be getting to that very soon.
  • The crappy layout in IE. Any CSS gods wanna give me a hand?
  • Any bugs I haven't fixed yet. I'm sure there are a lot.
• Pleasereport problems to donundeen@yahoo.com
• Introduction: The Gainesville Band Family Tree (hereafter known as The GBFT) is a listing of every Band, Musician, and Venue in Gainesville, Florida. EVER.
• OBVIOUSLY, it's not now, nor will it ever be, entirely complete. But if you look at the stats on the left, we're doing pretty good.
• The GBFT is added to and built by people like YOU, every day, adding bands, musicians, and venues to the Tree. It's fast and easy to contribute; and NOW, with the new software in place, your changes are seen by everyone, immediately.
• The GBFT is MORE than just a dry relational database that shows who played in what band when, and what clubs they played in.
• If you see something that looks WRONG, then it's your fault, and it's your job to fix it. Hopefully I've made that easy to do.
• The HEART of the GBFT is the ARTICLES, which anyone can submit (no membership BS required). Articles are any story you can remember about that band, musician, or venue; the more personal, the better. Every band, musician, and venue has their own articles page. You can also upload FILES, like pictures and MP3's, on each article page.
• The real POINT of all this is not to be a weblog, or a band promo site, but rather to write a hypertext webumentary about the Gainesville MUSIC SCENE, a story that reads differently for evey person that enters it, a story that we're all contributing to all the time.

Cool Data Visualizations!

In 2003 I made some force-directed graph visualizations of all the bands and musicians in the GBFT.
I printed them up at 24"x36" and sold them to Common Grounds for $150 in bar tab.
Don't know what happened to them, but here is a folder holding the original (large) files, in jpg, svg, and ai formats.

Feel free to download, modify, print, and share. I think they look pretty cool.