Is Eno numbers, a musical equivalent to Bacon numbers, a thing...

Is Eno numbers, a musical equivalent to Bacon numbers, a thing? I think every musician is at most only 6 steps away from being connected to Eno in some way.
Also, as a game name artists who you think are probably further away and we'll try and prove you wrong.

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we had this thread yesterday desu senpai, we do this a lot. I hate to be 'that guy' but lurk more

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Wavves

385

Zach Hill drummed in Wavves
Zach Hill is a member of Death Grips, whose Powers The B featured Bjork on vocals
Bjork performed a version of Human Behaviour with Underworld at the 1994 Roskilde Festival
Underworld's Karl Hyde made two albums with Brian Eno
So that's Wavves > Death Grips > Bjork > Underworld > Eno

Strapping young lad and Johann Johannsson

The Residents

One of these days I'm gonna buy one of those Eno card decks that he made.

385's Masayuki Hasuo was also a member of Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
their track You and Me Now featured vocals by Jad Fair
Jad Fair signed and recorded with Moe Tucker
Moe Tucker was in the Velvet Underground with John Cale
John Cale had a collaborative album with Eno
385 > Seagull Screaming > Fair > Tucker > Cale > Eno

The Residents' Margaret Freeman featured Andy Partridge
Partridge made a collaborative album with Harold Budd
Harold Budd made multiple albums with Brian Eno
Residents > Partridge > Budd > Eno

ringo starr

Ringo Starr drummed in the Beatles with John Lennon
Lennon performed backing vocals on Fame by David Bowie
Bowie collaborated on multiple albums with Brian Eno
Starr > Lennon > Bowie > Eno

alright, not bad. How about Aube

R. Stevie Moore
Wild Man Fischer

gotcha

Jackson C Frank

king tubby

On his record label GROSS Aube released Clitoridis by Smegma
Smegma's "Sing Popular Songs" featured Wild Man Fischer
Fischer recorded a version of The Way We Were with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo
Devo's debut was produced be Eno
Aube > Smegma > Fischer > Motherbaugh/Devo > Eno

For Fischer see R Stevie Moore's Dates featured Dave Gregory
Gregory was a member of XTC with Andy Partridge
Partridge recorded an album with Harold Budd
Budd made multiple albums with Eno
Moore > Gregory > Partridge > Budd > Eno

Jackson C Frank's debut was recorded with Paul Simon
Simon's Graceland featured guitar by Adrian Belew
Belew also performed on Remain in Light by Talking Heads
That album was produced by Eno
Frank > Simon > Belew > Talking Heads > Eno

Alan Partridge

King Tubby recorded two albums with Lee "Scratch" Perry
Perry recorded Rise Again with Bill Laswell
Laswell recorded Radioaxiom with Jah Wobble
Wobble recorded Spinner with Eno
Tubby > Perry > Laswell > Wobble > Eno

lil ugly mane

Smash Mouth

Partridge is portrayed by Steve Coogan (I'm counting these as the same person) who dated Courtney Love
Courtney Love also dated Billy Corgan
Corgan performed with Bowie at Bowie's 50th birthday celebrations
Bowie has repeatedly performed with Brian Eno
Partridge/Coogan > Love > Corgan > Bowie > Eno

Hard mode: Exuma, Les Rallizes Denudes

Chet Atkins

This Heat

Capercaillie is not connected to Brian Eno at all. Prove me wrong

Lil Ugly Mane produced Trick Dice by Nickelus F
Nickelus F featured on several tracks on the debut mixtape of Drake
Drake has collaborated on several occasions with Rihanna
Rihanna featured on Princess of China by Coldplay
Coldplay have been repeatedly produced by Eno
LUM > Nickelus F > Drake > Rihanna > Coldplay > Eno

Smash Mouth's drummer Mitch Marine was also in Tripping Daisy
Tripping Daisy's core line-up eventually became the Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree also included St. Vincent as a member at one point
SV released a collaboration with David Byrne
Byrne has worked with Eno on multiple occasions, notably on two collab albums
Smash Mouth > Tripping Daisy > Polyphonic Spree > St. Vincent > Byrne > Eno

are u the same boy

Exuma's second album featured trumpet by John Gatchell
Gatchell also performed trumpet on John Cale's Honi Soit
Cale recorded an album in collaboration with Eno
Exuma > Gaskell > Cale > Eno

Les Rallized Denudes' Takashi Mizutani released a live album with Arthur Doyle
Doyle's album The Songwriter was released on Ecstatic Peace, run by Thurston Moore
Moore has performed with Charles Hayward in This is not This Heat
Hayward has performed with Phil Manzanera in Quiet Sun
Manzanera was a member of Roxy Music with Eno
LRD > Doyle > Moore > Hayward > Manzanera > Eno

Atkins recorded Neck & Neck with Mark Knopfler
Knopfler recorded Money for Nothing by the Dire Straits with Sting
Sting was in the Police with Andy Summers
Summers collaborated on two albums with Robert Fripp
Fripp recorded multiple albums by Eno
Atkins > Knopfler > Sting > Summers > Fripp > Eno

This Heat's Charles Hayward was in Quiet Sun with Phil Manzanera
Manzanera was in Roxy Music with Eno
Hayward > Manzanera > Eno

>I had never seen Alan Partridge. But I was in a band with people who did know about Alan Partridge, so I had to make a record with them constantly saying to me: 'Back of the net!’”
Top kek

Capercaillie have Ewen Vernal as a member
He has been a member of the backing band to Fish
Fish has collaborated with Tony Banks
Tony Banks was a member of Genesis with Phil Collins
Collins has performed drums with Eno on Another Green World
Capercaillie > Vernal > Fish > Banks > Collins > Eno

...yes
Kek

Einstürzende Neubauten

Missed this one:
Strapping Young Lad has as a band member Devin Townshend
He was also in The Wildhearts
The Wildhearts' debut featured some guitar by Mick Ronson
Ronson was in David Bowie's backing band
Bowie repeatedly collaborated with Eno
SYL > Townshend > Wildhearts > Ronson > Bowie > Eno

Johansson produced Stranger Things by Marc Almond
Almond was in The Immaculate Consumptive with Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch was in Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, who were produced by Brian Eno on No New York
Johansson > Almond > Lunch/TJ&TJ > Eno

Einstürzende Neubauten opened for U2
U2 worked with Eno

>AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston provided backing vocals on Life in Exile After Abdication by Mo Tucker
Mo Tucker was in TVU with Cale
Cale and Eno were bros

EN's Blixa Bargeld was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The band collaborated with Iggy Pop on a song on a Jeffrey Lee Pierce/Gun Club tribute album
Pop's debut two solo albums were recorded with David Bowie
Bowie has repeatedly collaborated with Eno
EN > NC&tBS > Iggy Pop > Bowie > Eno

I don't agree that sampling and covers count as musicians being connected unless the two artists actually worked together

>influence all of new wave with Roxy Music
>become bros for life with Bowie
>produce Talking Heads, Devo, and document a corner of the no wave movement
>play with some German rockers, inadvertently invent ambient music
>combine western minimalism with eastern trad with the help of Jon Hassell
>create ethnically vage dance music with Byrne
>make millions by using U2 and Coldplay as puppet bands
when did you realize Eno controls the western music industry?

Mayhem

iceage?

Post-punk U2 was good though

Can I get a quick rundown?

Porcupine Tree

One of Mayhem's singers was Attila Csihar, who appeared on Ulver's Providence
The album this appeared on was mixed by John Fryer
Fryer played percussion on Sleeps With the Fishes by Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook
Eno contributes synthesisers to this album
Mayhem > Csihar > Ulver > Fryer > Nooten/Brook > Eno

Robert Fripp plays on Nil Recurring
Robert Fripp collaborated with Brian Eno

Kool A.D.

Iceage's Elias Bender Ronenfelt was in Var
Var's Loke Rahbek collaborated with Powell on Sport
Sport was mastered by Matt Colton
Colton also mastered Eno's Reflection
Iceage > Var > Powell > Colton > Eno

Not even.

Bjork and Eno used the same gym in London in the 1990s. He talks about it in his book.

Wavves > DG > Bjork > Eno

U2 is better than Talking Heads though

Kool AD while in Das Racist collaborated with Rostam Batmanglij on The Trick
Rostam was an occasionally contributor to the Dirty Projectors
DP collaborated with David Byrne on Knotty Pine for a benefit album
Byrne collabed with Eno multiple times
Kool AD > Rostam > DP > Byrne > Eno

Roxy Music.

Comus
Russian National Orchestra

Frédéric Chopin

Can't be done
Comus supported Bowie in London in 1969
Bowie worked with Eno repeatedly
Comus > Bowie > Eno

RNO were at one time conducted by Kent Nagano
Nagano also conducted several of Frank Zappa's compositions
Zappa's band at one time featured Adrian Belew
Belew was in King Crimson with Robert Fripp
Fripp collaborated on multiple albums with Eno
RNO > Nagano > Zappa > Belew > Fripp > Eno

Chopin was portrayed by Hugh Grant in Impromptu
Grant appeared in About a Boy, produced by Robert de Niro appeared in The King of Comedy with Mick Jones (of the Clash)
Mick Jones performed with Eno at a Stop the War benefit
Chopin > Grant > De Niro > Jones > Eno
OK, so someone portraying him in a film isn't the best link, but it's the best I can think to do

Modern Baseball

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Ryoji Ikeda

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ZGA
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