Pete Frame

I've mentioned this Pete Frame geezer quite a bit nowadays - he's the man who pioneered the concept of Rock Family Trees.

Anyway, here's a link to a site containing an extract of one of his rock family trees, in case anyone's interested ...

[www.angelfire.com] http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/vincentcrane/roosterfamilytree.htm

An interesting taster ...

His method of laying things out is great for that Chronological page I was trying to get to work a couple of months ago:
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Kiss

Here's another similiar example that's really nice:
[megadeth.rockmetal.art.pl] http://megadeth.rockmetal.art.pl/band_tree.html

Sadly since both of those are done by hand they are able to bypass the primary problem of generating a similiar layout on the fly so that the webserver can make them for any band. If anyone has an idea on how to get that to work, feel free to let me know.


Kevin

The Megadeth one sort of gives me an idea.

If you want to show sequential lineups, you could perhaps try to do it like this (edit: ASCII art attempts deleted -- the variable-width font here screws me over, argh). Display the albums in a vertical column on the left, labeled and dated. Beside each album (or set of albums with identical membership maybe??) put the member list on that album (those albums). For each member that is present on the next album, draw a line connecting them to an arrow pointing down to the next album. (If no members are common -- which does happen, though I don't know if it does in the current database -- no arrow is drawn at all).