#Van Conner

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Screaming Trees ↟

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Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

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SCREAMING TREES

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Van Conner † January 17, 2023

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Barrett Martin Says Screaming Trees “Almost” Regrouped in 2015

- Drummer to tell story in forthcoming band bio, due Nov. 3

The Screaming Trees “almost” got back together in 2015, Barrett Martin says.

The group’s former drummer will address this revelation and more in “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees.”

Saying the book flows “like a Greek comedy in three acts,” Martin uses 33 “mostly humorous” short stories to chronicle the Trees “and all the insane stuff that happened to us during the 1990s, including our short revival in 2012 with the Last Words album, and our almost-reunion in 2015.

“I wrote the book as a tribute to my bandmates, especially with the passing of Mark Lanegan and Van Conner in the last couple (of) years.”

Out Nov. 3, “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t” is Martin’s fourth book.

“Those who know me also know my sense of humor, so that’s the angle I took on the book,” he said. “Because in order to tell a great story, you have to live it first, which is what the Trees did, to the fullest.”

9/7/23

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Screaming Trees - Maybe (1992)

A b-side from the Shadow of the Season single, with bassist Van Conner on vocals. Similar to their early psychedelic style

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R.I.P. Van Connor

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ST

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Screaming Trees

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Screaming Trees - Where The Twain Shall Meet

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rest in peace, van 🖤

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Do you ever think abt conner’s leather jacket

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Van Conner  

March 17, 1967 – January 17, 2023

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Gary Lee Conner Eulogizes Late Brother Van Conner with Screaming Trees’ “Too Far Away”

When Van Conner temporarily left Screaming Trees in the late-1980s, Gary Lee Conner wrote “Too Far Away” for his prodigal brother and wayward bassist, with whom he later “conquered a very tiny part of the music world.”

Now, it’s 2023, and the surviving brother was unable to travel to Washington state for Van Conner’s memorial. So a grieving Gary Lee Conner performed the Buzz Factory track for “my dear, dear brother, Van, whom I loved very, very much” and put the results on YouTube.

“Now, I rededicate (‘Too Far Away’) to his memory,” the musician said in a statement accompanying the video.

Strumming an acoustic guitar and singing to a backing track, Gary Lee Conner exorcises the pain he’s carried in the wake of not only Van’s 2023 death, but the earlier losses of singer Mark Lanegan and Trees’ associate Jim King.

I sit alone in discontent/your ears don’t hear what I say/after a while you disconnect/to set you apart from pain

And when he’s done, Gary Lee Conner offers his brother some parting words before stepping back from the camera.

“See you later, Van.”

6/12/23

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