From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: Jah Wobble info anyone?
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:39:07 GMT

louis@aie.nl (Louis Kossen) writes:

> gummi@rhi.hi.is (Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson) writes:
>>He also made an album in 1983 with Francois Kevorkian and The Edge
>>called Snakecharmer.

>All the little bits make the complete story:

>He has played in PIL with Johnny Lydon. 

Ok, I'll bite - I don't think Wobble was the original bassist in PIL, 
though he was on the 2nd lp and a few others. He was around for a while
in Pil and released an EP on Virgin and some singles and was fired from 
PIL for supposedly (pretty blatantly) stealing some PIL backing tapes
and slapping a tune on his solo ep or lp that was essentially a PIL tune
he took credit for. He floundered for a while releasing early solo material
and supposedly driving a taxi in Manhattan. He recorded with The Edge 
and Kevorkian on the above mentioned release, but another important 
collaborator on that recording and another with Wobble was Holger Czukay
from the infamous german group Can. Wobble also helps out on some Czukay 
releases from the 80's and I think the late 80's found him on some of
the NY downtown scene's Bill Laswell productions, mostly notably on 
ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker's Middle Passage lp.

Here's some of the releases he's on:

 CZUKAY, HOLGER
 (W/ J. WOBBLE, J. LEIBEZEIT) FULL CIRCLE
 1983       GER       VIRGIN                    205 866
 
 STEEL LEG V. THE ELECTRIC DREAD
 (12-INCH) SAME (WITH JAH WOBBLE & "STRATETIME KEITH")
 1978       UK        VIRGIN                    VS 23912

 WICKENS, BRETT / WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) BETWEEN TWO FREQUENCIES / THE HARBOUR
 198?       UK        GENERAL KINETICS          G 2001
`
 WOBBLE, JAH
 (7-INCH) BETRAYAL / BATTLE OF BRITAIN BY MR. X
 1980       UK        VIRGIN                    VS 337

 WOBBLE, JAH
 BETRAYAL
 1980       UK        VIRGIN                    V 2158

 WOBBLE, JAH
 V. I. E. P.
 1980       UK        VIRGIN                    VS 361-12

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) FADING / NOCTURNAL
 1981 (?)   FR        JAH                       1

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) INVADERS OF THE HEART: MIX ONE / MIX TWO / MIX THREE (EXOTIC DECAD
 1983       FR        LAGO                      4

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (WITH THE EDGE, H. CZUKAY, ETC.) (EP) SNAKE CHARMER
 1983       UK        ISLAND                    IMA 1

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) (WITH O. MARLAND, P. ELTES) VOODOO / EAST
 1984       US        LAGO                      LAGO 5
 
 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) (WITH OLLIE MARLAND) LOVE MYSTERY / SAME (INSTRUMENTAL)
 1985       UK        ISLAND                    IS 228

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (WITH OLLIE MARLAND) TRADEWINDS
 1986?      UK        LAGO                      LAGO 7

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) ISLAND PARADISE (CLUB MIX) / ALCOHOL / JIHAD / ISLAND PARADISE (WH
 1987       FR        WOB                       WOB 8-12

 WOBBLE, JAH
 PSALMS
 1987       FR        WOB                       WOB 7

 WOBBLE, JAH
 (12-INCH) (WITH ANIMAL) A LONG, LONG WAY / ROMANY TRAIL / BERLIN
 198?       FR        JAH                       2

 WOBBLE, JAH
 BEDROOM ALBUM
 198?       FR        LAGO                      3

 PUBLIC IMAGE, LTD.
 (7-INCH) DEATH DISCO / NO BIRDS DO SING
 1979       UK        VIRGIN                    VS 274

 PUBLIC IMAGE, LTD.
 SECOND EDITION (2) (RE-ISSUE OF METAL BOX)
 1979       US        ISLAND                    2 WX 3288

 PUBLIC IMAGE, LTD.
 (7-INCH) MEMORIES / ANOTHER
 1980       UK        VIRGIN                    VS 299

 PUBLIC IMAGE, LTD.
 PARIS AU PRINTEMPS (LIVE)
 1980       UK        VIRGIN                    OVED 50


Good luck finding most of this stuff!

  - Malcolm