Van Conner

Van Conner was born March 17, 1967 in Apple Valley, California. He grew up in Ellensburg, Washington, USA.

In 1984 he co-founded the band Screaming Trees with his brother Gary Lee Conner and close friends Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel.

Conner has played with several bands over the last 20 years and is currently playing with his band VALIS.

As of July 25, 2006, he was last known working as an employee of the Walt Disney Internet Group in Seattle, Washington.[1]

[edit] Band/project history

Explosive Generation (with Gary Lee Conner, Mark Pickerel, Dan Harper, David Frazini)
Screaming Trees
MDL
Sweet Pea Lanterna and the Buttmeatmen (with Sean Hollister, Mark Lanegan, Nate Hill)
Solomon Grundy (with Sean Hollister, Lee McCullogh, James King)
Dinosaur Jr (with J Mascis, Murph)
Worm Wood (with Dylan Carlson)
Gardener (with Aaron Staufer, Adrian Makins, Patrick Conner)
VALIS
Musk Ox (with Chovie D, Patrick Conner, Adrian Makins)

1985 - Screaming Trees "Other Worlds" - Self Release
1986 - Screaming Trees "Clairvoyance" - Velvetone
1987 - Screaming Trees "Even If and Especially When" - SST
1987 - Steve Fisk "448 Deathless Days" - SST
1988 - Various Artists "Sub Pop 200" - Sub Pop
1988 - Screaming Trees "Invisible Lantern" - SST
1988 - Beat Happening/Screaming Trees "Self Titled" - Homstead/K
1989 - Screaming Trees "Buzz Factory" - SST
1989 - Screaming Trees "Change Has Come" - Sub Pop
1990 - Solomon Grundy "Stone Soup and Other Stories" - New Alliance
1991 - Screaming Trees "Uncle Anestisia" - Epic
1992 - Solomon Grundy "Spirit of Radio/I'm not the Freak" - New Alliance
1992 - Screaming Trees "Sweet Oblivion" - Epic
1996 - Screaming Trees "Dust" - Epic
1996 - Gamma Ray "EP" - Man's Ruin
1998 - Queens of the Stone Age "Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age" - Man's Ruin
1998 - Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You" - Sony
1998 - VALIS "VALIS/Kitty Kitty Split CD/EP" - Man's Ruin Records
1999 - Gardener "New Dawning Time" - Sub Pop
1999 - Dark Fantastic "Dark Fantastic" - Up Records
1999 - Mark Lanegan "I'll Take Care of You" - Sub Pop
2001 - Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You" - Sony
2002 - VALIS "Vast Active Living Intelligence System" - Lunasound/Abstract
2004 - VALIS "Head Full of Pills" - Small Stone
2005 - Screaming Trees "Ocean of Confusion" - Epic
2005 - VALIS "Champions of Magic" - Small Stone
2006 - Various Artists: "Sleepless in Seattle - The Birth of Grunge" - High Wire