What is the Wellwater Conspiracy?
The Wellwater Conspiracy began as a side-project for John McBain, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd in 1996. Matt and Ben were under contractual restraints at the time and so were known as Ted and Zeb respectively on their first three 7″ singles for SuperElectro. They kept these pseudonyms and a number of slight variations through to the release of their first record, Declaration of Conformity. Matt and John, both home-recording, four-track, garage-rock fanatics, recorded most of the vocals and instrumentation for their second album by themselves, releasing Brotherhood Of Electric in 1998. Ben did not appear on this record and seemed to be out of the band but has now been confirmed by John as being back in. John offers this “It’s cryptic in that it’s about not trying to be a band per se. WWC is an entity and every once in a while we release a record. We wanted to avoid all of the trappings of being in a band. The industry wants to slap leather pants on you and make you wear those ridiculou
