Van Conner, co-founding bassist of other rock band Screaming Bushes, has died at 55.
Conner’s brother and bandmate, Gary Lee Conner, shared the information in a social media assertion. “Van Conner, bassist and songwriter of Screaming Bushes, died final night time of an prolonged sickness at 55,” he wrote. “It was pneumonia that bought him in the long run. He was one of many closest pals I ever had, and I beloved him immensely. I’ll miss him ceaselessly and ever and ever.”
Born in 1967 in Apple Valley, Calif., and raised in Ellensburg, Wash., Conner shaped the band Explosive Era in highschool together with his brother, who performed guitar, and drummer Mark Pickerel. The trio quickly recruited singer Mark Lanegan and renamed itself Screaming Bushes. The quartet launched a number of albums on impartial labels all through the late ‘80s, mixing laborious rock and neo-psychedelia to develop into progenitors of the Seattle sound together with bands like Melvins, Mudhoney and Inexperienced River.
Screaming Bushes signed with Epic Information in 1990, and their major-label debut, Uncle Anesthesia, arrived the next 12 months, spawning the Prime 40 different radio hit “Mattress of Roses.” Its follow-up, 1992’s Candy Oblivion, turned the band’s first Billboard 200 entry, peaking at No. 141 and yielding the No. 5 alt-radio hit “Almost Misplaced You” and the Prime 40 “Greenback Invoice.” After a four-year hole, the band issued Mud in 1996, occurring an prolonged hiatus after its supporting tour and formally disbanding in 2000. A shelved follow-up to Mud arrived in 2011 underneath the identify Final Phrases: The Last Recordings.
Conner additionally toured briefly with Dinosaur Jr. within the ‘90s, and following the dissolution of Screaming Bushes, he shaped a number of different alt-rock bands, together with Gardener and Musk Ox. The bassist’s demise comes lower than a 12 months after Lanegan died at age 57.
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