Victor Conte

Biography

Victor Conte Jr. (July 10, 1950 – November 3, 2025) was an American musician and businessman who was the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), which is now defunct. BALCO was a sports nutrition center in California. In the late 1970s, Conte played bass with funk and  R&B group Tower of Power, appearing on the band's 1978 release We Came to Play!. Conte served time in prison in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and to money laundering. He later operated Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning (SNAC Nutrition).

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Cristo Redentor

  1968

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  We Came To Play

  1978

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  The Snake

  1972

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  The Best Of Harvey Mandel

  1975

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  Gavin Christopher

  1979

Credited work

102 releases · 20 albums · active 1972–2025

• Performance · 220
• Other credits · 3

Studios: The Village Recorder · Westlake Studios · Berlin Jazz Festival · Berliner Philharmonie

Frequent collaborators

• Harvey Mandel
• "Don ""Sugar Cane"" Harris"
• Tower Of Power
• Joanna Connor
• Pure Food And Drug Act
• Freddie Roulette
• The Waters
• Charles Jackson

Around the web

• Wikipedia