John Wardle (known as Jah Wobble) is an English bassist and composer from Stepney, London. A founding member of Public Image Ltd., he has been active since 1977 and is known for dub-influenced basslines, solo records and wide-ranging collaborations.

Founding member and bassist of Public Image Ltd.; from Stepney, London; active since 1977. Widely associated with dub, post-punk and ambient projects. Collaborated with Holger Czukay and Brian Eno (noted in reviews), led his band Invaders of the Heart, and has solo albums such as Dream World and the Trojan anthology I Could Have Been A Contender. Played on PiL's Metal Box (credited as bassist).

Three reviews on DeBaser portray Jah Wobble as a dub-rooted, adventurous bassist and composer. They note his role in Public Image Ltd. and his wide-ranging solo and collaborative projects. Highlights include the Trojan anthology and exploratory solo albums. Reviewers emphasize his inventive bass, global influences and experimental leanings.

For:Fans of dub, post-punk, ambient and experimental/world-influenced music.

 Jah Wobble is a traitor, a rogue.

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 There are musicians who, without much fuss (or clamor), have been influencing the more or less alternative scene for decades: one of these is certainly Jah Wobble, a tremendous bassist endowed with great technique and even more originality and inventiveness who has authoritatively presided over the crossroads between dub, ambient, wave, avant-garde, and easy listening since as far back as 1978.

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 The name Jah Wobble is primarily known to the small yet sizable audience of music enthusiasts for his central role in the sound of Public Image Ltd., but to frame this musician solely within this context would certainly be reductive.

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