The Problem
You remember shows in fragments. The Gorge sunset during a second-set Tweezer. The MSG run where every night topped the last. The Red Rocks rain that turned a Billy Strings show into something no one expected. The memories are vivid. But finding the recordings means searching three apps, cross-referencing dates, and hoping someone uploaded it.
Remembering what you have already listened to means a spreadsheet, a notes app, or nothing at all. You know you heard a great SBD of that Dillon show, but was it on nugs or Archive? Did you rate it? Did you even finish it? After fifty, a hundred, two hundred shows, the history blurs together. Your concert life deserves better than scattered browser tabs.
Log Any Show
Date, venue, artist, personal notes. Build a timeline of every concert you have been to. Each entry is a moment you chose to be in a room with a band and a crowd. Showboard lets you record that the way it happened: one show at a time.
Phish at The Gorge, 7/14/24
Billy Strings at Red Rocks, 7/21/23
Goose at Dillon Amphitheater, 9/3/22
Add shows as you go or backfill years of history in one sitting. Showboard autocompletes venues and artists, so logging a decade of Dead & Company summer tours takes minutes, not hours. Every show becomes a permanent entry in your personal concert archive.
Automatic Recording Discovery
Mark a show as attended and Showboard searches all six sources in the background. SBDs from Phish.in. Audience tapes from Archive.org. Hi-res streams from nugs.net. Studio-quality TIDAL and Qobuz streams. Your own local files. If a recording of that night exists anywhere Showboard can reach, it finds it.
You log Billy Strings at Red Rocks, 7/21/23. Showboard comes back with the nugs.net multitrack, two audience recordings from Archive, and the FLAC folder you already had on your drive. All of them linked to that one diary entry. No searching. No copy-pasting dates into search bars. You attended the show. The recordings come to you.
Rate and Remember
Star ratings, personal notes, favorite shows. Which recording of that night was the best? What was the standout moment? Was it the Dew that went to space or the acoustic encore that silenced fifteen thousand people? Your concert history with context that actually matters.
Six months later, a friend asks about the Gorge run. You open your diary and it is all there. The night you rated five stars. The note you wrote about the Set II opener. The specific recording you preferred. Not a hazy memory of "it was good." A real record of what the night meant to you, attached to the actual music.
Your Timeline
Browse chronologically. See your concert history laid out the way you lived it. The first show you ever saw. The summer you hit twelve dates in six weeks. The fall run that changed your favorite band. Scroll through years of shows and watch your own story take shape.
147 shows
logged
23 artists
seen live
38 venues
visited
Stats that tell the real story: how many shows, how many artists, how many venues. Not vanity metrics. A record of the nights that mattered. The places you keep going back to. The bands you have followed across state lines and time zones. Your timeline is yours alone, and it grows with every show you attend.
I Was There Card
Build a shareable card for any show in your diary. The gradient is generated from the show date, venue, and artist, so every card is unique. Phish at MSG on New Year's Eve gets a different palette than Goose at Radio City in October. The algorithm turns the details of the night into color.
Share it with the friend who was standing next to you. Post it the morning after. Send it to the group chat that planned the trip. The card is proof you were in the room. Not a ticket stub you lost in a drawer. Not a blurry phone photo from the lawn. A clean, beautiful object that says: I was there, and this is what it looked like.