Preservation

Archive progress

Years covered: 1991 — 2026. These numbers are not a score. They describe how much of a live history has survived, and how much has not.

Where the archive stands

Documented setlists70%

Any recording16%

Full concert audio/video2%

1,255 known performances have nothing surviving in the archive beyond their date and place. That is the part of the work that still matters most.

What is known

Every figure below is counted from the archive database, which is built from setlist.fm. It records that a performance happened and what was played — not that anything of it survives.

1,487: known performances
1,046: with a documented setlist
16,465: documented song performances
838: distinct songs
866: venues
342: cities
30: countries
30: named tours

What survives

Recordings count individual published videos, while song coverage counts the individual setlist performances those videos document. One long video can cover many songs, and several recordings can document the same song performance.

232: performances with a recording
23: with a full-concert recording
1,381: song performances with video footage
1,220: published video recordings
289: original audio recordings preserved
212: photographs archived
23: memories preserved

Known playing time preserved

165 hours

156 hours: Concert performance
5.1 hours: Interview
1.4 hours: Documentary
1.2 hours: Television
48 min: Other
27 min: Tribute
13 min: Busking
10 min: Guest appearance
4 min: Rehearsal / soundcheck
2 min: Backstage

Based on 1,464 published recordings with a known duration. Recordings without reliable timing metadata are preserved in the counts above but are not estimated here.