#van conner

[dancingmosquito]

📷Screaming Trees - Jun 1997 @ the Showbox

Screaming Trees - Jun 29 1997 - the Showbox. Seattle, WA, preshow gathering and show.

📷Debbi Sullivan (fb)

op's description: "The other post made me pull out my photo album. I tried taking photos of my photos, this was the best I could do. Showbox June 29, 1997. Preshow gathering and show. Lanegan wasn't really present except for the show itself, 1997 wasn't his best era. But I got a lot of nice photos of Van Conner!"

[starsstillstay]

screaming trees, france 1996

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Screaming Trees ~ "Sworn and Broken" (1996)

[justinamaxina]

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Queens of the Stone Age - If Only Everything (Gamma Ray Sessions) (Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age, 1997)

[musickickztoo]

Van Conner *March 17, 1967

[rockingreads]

Mark Lanegan: Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir (2020)

When Mark Lanegan published his gritty, unsettling, teeth-grinding autobiography, Sing Backwards and Weep, in April of 2020 (on my 50th birthday, no less!), he was amazingly one of the few '90s grunge frontmen still breathing!

So his unsparing account of his years of drug addiction and the music career he somehow managed to pursue in spite of it with the ever-dysfunctional Screaming Trees (while close friends and peers like Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, and others dropped like flies all around him) makes for a gripping read.

Based on Lanegan's candid misadventures, the fact that he ultimately beat the odds to enjoy immense critical acclaim, relatively stable and continued success both as a solo artist and key contributor to Queens of the Stone Age and other projects, plus some manner of personal contentment is nothing short of a miracle.

Indeed, by the time you put it down, this is one of those rock star memoirs that leave you thinking "there's no way this guy should be alive!"

And yet, it still felt like a tale of triumph over adversity with a seemingly open-ended happy ending … until Lanegan sadly passed away two years ago, still far too young at 57.

The only consolation it that he lived to be much older than many of those who knew him well could ever have expected.

R.I.P.

Featured Records:

Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion (1992)

Screaming Trees: Dust (1996)

Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf (2002)

Buy from: Amazon

[jarofalicesgrunge777]

Screaming Trees ↟

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Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You