Chris Von Sneidern

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Chris Von Sneidern (born in

Career

Von Sneidern played in a local band called the U-Turns in the early 1980s before relocating to San Francisco in 1985. In the Bay Area he played with several locally based power pop bands, including the Lost Patrol and The Sneetches (the latter as bassist), before joining Flying Color as guitarist in 1987. After Flying Color broke up in 1990, Von Sneidern hit the road with former Beat leader Paul Collins and lived for a short time in New York before returning to San Francisco to pursue a solo career. In 2017, he toured with the Flamin' Groovies as their bassist in support of their reunion album, Fantastic Plastic.(Von Schneidern was invalided out of the Groovies in November 2023) ^[1]

Von Sneidern issued his self-produced debut album, Sight & Sound, on the Heyday label in 1993. In addition to winning rave reviews from power pop fans, it also featured a guest appearance from John Wesley Harding, with whom von Sneidern would collaborate frequently in the years to come. The follow-up, Big White Lies, appeared in 1994, and as word of Von Sneidern's music spread in the pop underground, he picked up more production work in addition to his own recordings, and opened his own Bay Area recording studio.

When von Sneidern released his third album, Go!, in 1996, he was on the local

In popular culture

• A documentary titled Why isn't Chris Von Sneidern famous? was produced.^[2]

References

External links

• Chris Von Sneidern's official site
• Chris Von Sneidern on LoveCat Music