Jah Wobble - Ocean Blue Waves (2020)

Recorded in Orange Studios NJ and Airtight Studios Manchester Musicians: Bass and vocals Jah Wobble Drums, and percussion on Minds Float Free and Fly Away Marc Layton-Bennett Keyboards George King Martin Chung guitar Tien-Chi percussion and Yanquin on Fly Away All music composed by Jah Wobble, George King, Marc Layton-Bennett and Martin Chung, except for Take My Hand composed by Jah Wobble. All lyrics written by Jah Wobble.

John Wardle originally met John Lydon, John Grey and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London, in 1973. It was Vicious who originally nicknamed John Jah Wobble after a drunken binge, and would also loan him his first bass guitar. During the heyday of punk rock in the mid to late 70s, Wardle earned himself the reputation of being something of a wildman. His original introduction to the bass stemmed from his long-term obsession with dub reggae music. Combined with the D.I.Y. punk ethos, Wardle embraced punk and reggae, and in the process, created an original rock/reggae hybrid of his own. After discovering his fascination with the bass guitar, Lydon asked Wardle to join Public Image Limited (aka PiL) during the spring of 1978. Wardle s distinctive low end bass immediately put PiL on the map and became the backbone of the band. The band s debut album Public Image Limited included the band s eponymous first Top 10 hit single. After two magnificent albums, including the mighty Metal Box , Wardle became increasingly disillusioned by the music scene and the politics of the band and their reluctance to play live, and eventually split from the band in mid 1980.