'Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directive(s)'
1999 Time Bomb Recordings

John McBain - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards and Screams
Matt Cameron Drums, Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Keyboards

Track listing:
1) Destination 24
2) Compellor
3) Teen lampchop
4) Hal McBlaine
5) Born with a tail
6) Destination 7
7) Red light green light
8) B.O.U.
9) Psycho scrimm
10) Van vanishing
11) Right of left field
12) Ladder to the moon
13) Dark passage
14) Good pushin'
15) Dr. Browne Dr. Greene
16) Jefferson experiment

 

"Wellwater Conspiracy is the only logical step for those who seek music that is at the same time forward and backward. Our task for the millennium is to expose the truth about the so-called modern rock movement. It makes no sense to us in the Brotherhood of the Electric to have meaningless music shoved down our throats. The teeming millions in the Brotherhood want music to be a true expression of the carnal joys of a life, truly examined. In other words, everything that is missing in today's musical cowpie. We reach out to those individuals to join us, ingest the manifesto, join the Brotherhood, and create your own path.
End transmission."
John McBain and Matt Cameron

Wellwater Conspiracy suspends musical inhibitions with Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directive(s) out on Time Bomb Recordings February 9, 1999.
John McBain is a self-taught guitar god, obscure music historian and formerly of Monster Magnet.
Matt Cameron is drummer-icon, amateur studio engineer and formerly of Soundgarden.
Wellwater Conspiracy is the product of a chance meeting between the two on tour in 1992.
First working together on a project called Hater with Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden), McBain and Cameron found they had one major thing in common - a love of experimental home recording.
During the Hater sessions these would-be partners began a spontaneous writing collaboration in a makeshift 8-track studio and started laying down the tracks that would give birth (a few years later) to Wellwater Conspiracy.
The music was different enough from either player's full-time band to embark, during downtime,
upon this brand-new project. Bound by conflicting schedules, Wellwater Conspiracy didn't officially incarnate until 1996 with the release of three 7"s on Superelectro and a full-length Declaration of Conformity, on Third Gear. In spite of the lure from each player's pointed musical innovations in both Soundgarden and Monster Magnet, both supporters and critics alike found the recordings to stand on the merit of the music rather than whispers of the past.
Decidedly un-grunge, Wellwater Conspiracy found a home amongst the lovers of garage-style psychedelia. But with its members tied to other obligations, it would be another three years before Wellwater Conspiracy could strike again.
In 1998, McBain and Cameron got together again to work on a follow up to Declaration. Going into Space Studio and Studio Litho in Seattle, WA with Adam Kasper as co-producer, Wellwater Conspiracy began the musical journey which would result in Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directive(s).
Co-conspirators with diverse musical perceptions, McBain and Cameron again set out to challenge
the musical majority with this second release.
Guest musicians Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, formerly of Kyuss), Glenn Slater
(the Walkabouts), Luke St. Kimble, Gerry Amandes, and the Wardencliffe Trio
periodically appear throughout the recordings.
Experimental and in-your-face, Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directive(s) is neo-psychedelic garage rock in its purest form. Influenced by the Troggs and the Nuggets Compilation, hard edges
and funky guitars take these genuinely bizarre tracks over the top of "rock." Compeller's edgy chorus is complemented by a dissonant breakdown mid-song. Melodic and spacey, Born With a Tail floats through sweet guitar harmonies and entrancing keys layered over Cameron's ethereal vocals.
Teen Lambchop is heavy and hypnotic and, at times, reminiscent of an early '60s narcotic bliss.
Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directive(s) is a modern-psyche opus.
Get ready for the mind excursion.

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