Stats in a Pile

all time (2018–now), counted

Every number below comes from the 716 shows in this scope — from go-set.net, which is run by the band. For official play counts and gap charts, go-set itself is the authority.

Originals vs covers
Originals: 6955 of 9613Covers: 2658 of 9613
  • Originals6955
  • Covers2658

Every performance in this scope, the 4/20 and private all-Dead sets included — this ring says what happened; the artist chart below says what is typical.

The road
208,826+
miles, following every show
47
states & territories

Longest hop: BCS → VT, roughly 2,548 miles as the crow flies. A floor, not an odometer: measured between state centroids, and hops inside one state count zero. Bring snacks.

What they played
Distroid: 811 of 9590Bloom: 925 of 9590Not Your Average Beagle: 1178 of 9590Unreleased: 4031 of 9590Cover: 2645 of 95909590SONGS

Album membership per performance, from go-set's discography. Click a segment to list the performances.

Whose songs (the covers)
Grateful Dead: 415 of 2645Stevie Wonder: 138 of 2645Mad Kings: 120 of 2645Vince Guaraldi: 94 of 2645Other artists: 1878 of 26452645COVERS

Top artists covered in this scope. Click a segment for the when and where.

Show lengths, all time (2018–now)
1h2h3h4h

Every fully-timed show in this scope, in order — hover a dot for the night. Untimed shows are absent, not zero.

The map — every stop, all time (2018–now)
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Dot size = shows in that state; each arc is a road hop the tour actually made, thicker the more often. Dots sit on state centroids — a map of the tour, not a road atlas.

Counts credits over every performance in this scope, from the songwriter lines on go-set's own song pages — a co-written song counts once for each writer, so this never sums to the song count. Only the songs go-set publishes credits for appear (5494 performances here carry one).

Counted from cover credits on each show page. Two special shows are excluded — the 4/20 "Dogs Play Dead" launch party and a private all-Dead set (25 more Dead-family covers between them) — because leaving them in would say more about two setlists than about a year of shows.

Shows by state

Only the 513 shows where every song carries the band’s own timing can compete — a show missing one length would lose on missing data, not on music.

Counted over go-set's full show history, in their own published convention — the derivation reproduces go-set's numbers exactly across every 2026 span (verified 2026-09-01, n=9,265).

Jam vehicles — average vs longest (minutes, 3+ timed takes)

Filled dot = the AVERAGE — the honest jam-vehicle number; hollow dot = its longest single take.

Where a song lives in the show
  • opener
  • mid-set
  • encore

The most-played songs in this scope, split by where their plays landed: opening a set, mid-set, or in the encore.

Songs with 3+ career plays, by shows since the last one. The list every fan argues about in line.

Shows per month

Biggest night: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at Lost Lake Lounge — 34 songs.

The touring grid — shows per month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2018111201944610652131202035281413120211183457453202241093689812121410202314209131679141317112024212121611148981115112025161082298111211413132026101717813146102

Brighter is busier; the number in each cell is the count.

All time

How rare is rare?

These count all 716 shows in the archive, 2018 to now — not just this year. Across them the band has played 538 different songs, and 218 of those (41%) exactly once. The repertoire is a small core and a very long tail.

Songs, by how often they have been played
Played once218
2-5 times131
6-1565
16-5070
51-15039
151+15
Rare sightings, recently

Songs the band has played at only 2–12 shows ever, but that turned up in the last 120 — the rare ones you could actually have caught. A list on purpose: the rarest songs are all tied at two or three shows, so ranked bars would be identical lengths.

  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy — 11 shows ever, last on Saturday, October 10, 2026
  • The Ballad of Ms. Pepper and Ms. Paige — 11 shows ever, last on Saturday, October 10, 2026
  • Throw It Away — 12 shows ever, last on Saturday, October 10, 2026
  • Rasputin — 2 shows ever, last on Saturday, October 10, 2026
  • Postcard — 7 shows ever, last on Friday, October 9, 2026
  • Let Me Go — 10 shows ever, last on Friday, October 9, 2026
  • Cabbage Alley — 6 shows ever, last on Friday, October 9, 2026
  • Scarlet Begonias — 6 shows ever, last on Saturday, September 26, 2026
  • Fire on the Mountain — 4 shows ever, last on Saturday, September 26, 2026
  • Shine a Light — 12 shows ever, last on Saturday, September 26, 2026
Longest wait (shows since last played)
I Know You Rider665
Crocodile Rock632
Something Like Olivia526
Clint Eastwood458
Free455
Madhuvan455
Melting Lights455
Jungle Foot432
Paper Fly432
Little Bird432

Only songs with at least five lifetime plays, so this reads as "overdue" rather than "played once in 2019 and never again". Counted from this archive’s own show list, not from go-set’s published gap figures.

Covers, as % of songs played each year
201893
201961
202025
202129
202222
202329
202428
202525
202623

The story of the band in one chart: 93% covers in 2018, settling around a quarter as the original repertoire took over. Counted with the band-family rule — Dogs in a Pile and its side projects are originals.

Longest average jams (minutes)
G Song16
Bird Song15
Charlie15
Thomas Duncan, Pt. 315
Eyes of the World15
Bent Strange14
Craig and Pat14
Tillie14
Unfocused14
Help on the Way / Slipknot!14

Songs with at least eight timed performances; lengths are the band’s own track times, recorded consistently since 2023. The longest single version in this set ran 47 minutes.

These counts are all time (2018–now) — switch scope above, or browse any year from the show list. Official play counts and gaps are the band's, at go-set.net.

Setlist data: go-set.net · counts regenerate as shows are added
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