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My name is Mark Linton Meyer. My guess for episode

220 is Jaa Wobble. His real name is John Wordle. He was named Jaa Wobble

according to him by Sid Vicious because he was a teenage friend of the sex pistols and when they broke up and

John Leiden started Public Image Limited in 1978, Jaa picked up the base right then and there and he wrote the foundational line for the song you are hearing right now.

Public Image, Pills first single released on their first album.

Jaa was only in that band for their first two albums and he even recorded his first solo single while still in the band and immediately in 1980 recorded his first solo album.

He since recorded a lot.

More than 50 albums, generally multiple albums a year.

Some are just under his name, where he plays or programs most of all the instruments.

Usually he is a bandleader, often his band it is called Invaders of the instruments. Usually he is a band leader. Often his band is called

Invaders of the Heart. He's had several different lineups of that, but also deep

space, the modern jazz ensemble, The Human Condition.

He was in a supergroup in the early aught called The Damage Manual

with one of my past guests, Chris Connolly.

He's done a lot of work in world music,

working especially with Chinese music, thanks in part to his second wife is

Elon. He has collaborated with Bill Lazzwell with singer Julie Campbell, Brian

Eno, one of his early LPs was a collaboration with The Edge from You Two.

Today we're going to talk about a brief history of now, the album from 2003.

His song Last Exit from that, and we'll look at one of his purely solo efforts,

The Bus Roots of South London, also from 2023.

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