Wellwater Conspiracy’s Matt Cameron and John McBain were preparing for another evening in their studio in Seattle after the city was rocked by an earthquake Wednesday (February 28) morning.
Former Soundgarden and fill-in Pearl Jam drummer Cameron told LAUNCH about the quake. “I was out for a walk with my son and my dog and didn’t feel a darn thing. Pretty soon after that my wife, she drove up in the car to where we were walking to and said, ‘Didn’t you feel the earthquake?’ So I missed out and I’m bummed, man! Because it sounded like it was a huge one. But we lucked out because it could have been a lot worse. We’ve got a lot of hazardous, old, crumbling structures here in Seattle that are resting on a fault line.”
He added, “At least there’s no tidal wave.” As for his blown opportunity, he lamented, “It rolled for almost a minute. I missed it!”
Cameron and McBain’s Wellwater Conspiracy is releasing The Scroll & Its Combinations through TVT Records on May 29, and Cameron said the band is also seven songs into the next album.