Them Crooked Vultures: The Most Connected Men in Rock

Forget six degrees of Kevin Bacon, try three degrees of Them Crooked Vultures -- the new rock supergroup featuring John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl -- and you'll get to just about anyone who's ever picked up an instrument. Because that would be a never-ending project, we decided to plant the seed of a Kevin Bacon-esque flowchart -- sans Jones (not because we don't love him or Led Zeppelin, but because that would be a whole other never-ending project) -- and see how far we could let it grow. So with the two ringleaders of rock's current fraternity, desert-rock pioneer Homme and drummer/frontman extraordinaire Grohl, we've charted out their numerous bands, projects and collaborations and realized these guys are not just ridiculously prolific, they have so many connections to each other and rock's elite that we couldn't even plot them all. We stopped at around 69, and that number was mere coincidence.

Our challenge to you: click on the image to view our complete, interactive flowchart, listen to all the artists represented -- just click on their name and press Play -- and start configuring more degrees of separation. Not too difficult, right?