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How did Van Conner die? Tributes pour in as Screaming Trees co-founder and Bassist passes away at 55
Screaming Trees - Courtesy of Gary Lee Conner, guitarist for the Trees. This is us before our show at CBGBs in New York in 1992, back when it was still a punk
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