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He was a key part of the late-‘70s British punk renaissance. In fact, his stage name emerged out the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious mumbling his real name, John Wardle. After the Sex Pistols broke up in 1978, John Lydon asked Wobble to join PiL, which included dub and Middle Eastern elements in its mix.
28 de ene. de 2020 · It led to the three of them meeting over a “memorable meal, we had Greek food at the Astoria in Queens” while Wobble was in New York looking for a US deal for the album. That in turn was followed by an invitation to play on Ginger Baker’s Middle Passage, which Laswell was producing.
25 de feb. de 2021 · Bonding through a shared love of Miles Davis’s Dark Magus LP, Wobble and fellow bassist and producer Bill Laswell, first worked together on Ginger Baker’s heavyweight dub fusion LP, Middle Passage, from 1990.
21 de may. de 2019 · Jah Wobble (born John Wardle in Stepney in 1958), first heard dub at the illicit ‘blues’ parties around his East End neighbourhood. “Heavy bass had an effect on me that was essentially visceral. I felt and perceived it at gut level,” he recalled in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Geezer.
John Joseph Wardle (born 11 August 1958), [citation needed] known by the stage name Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist and singer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he left the band after two albums.
19 de oct. de 2016 · Despite being part of British punk’s early days—palling with Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious—John Wardle didn’t mesh with that music’s aggression, choosing instead spiky reggae as his calling card, and waiting until post-punk to make his move: becoming bassist/composer Jah Wobble.
30 de ago. de 2016 · Former PiL bassist Jah Wobble on regrets, working on the Tube and living the life of a geezer. Having helped to define post-punk alongside John Lydon in Public Image Ltd, Jah Wobble (aka John Joseph Wardle) embarked upon a portfolio solo career of astonishing breadth and genre-diversity.
