Johnny Temple (bassist)

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Johnny Temple

| image = Johnny Temple playing live with Girls Against Boys, 1994.jpg

| caption = Temple in 1993

| birth_name =

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Washington D.C.

| genre = Post-hardcore

| occupation = Musician

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| instrument = bass guitar

| label = Dischord, Touch and Go

| years_active = 1985–present

| associated_acts = Girls Against Boys, New Wet Kojak, Soulside

}}

Johnny Temple is an American bassist, known best for his work in the post-hardcore bands Soulside and Girls Against Boys.{{cite book |first=Colin |last=Larkin |url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Girls-Against-Boys.html |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |volume=10 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |access-date=April 26, 2013}} Temple also formed a side project with fellow Girls Against Boys member Scott McCloud called New Wet Kojak.{{cite web |first=Greg |last=Kot |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=girls_against_boys |title=New Wet Kojak |publisher=Trouser Press |year=2007 |access-date=April 26, 2013}} In 1996 he founded Akashic Books out of Brooklyn with the intent of publishing works by independent artists.{{cite web |url=http://wesleying.org/2012/02/10/johnny-temple-88-publisher-and-editor-in-chief-of-akashic-books-on-publishing/ |title=Johnny Temple '88, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Akashic Books, On Publishing |publisher=Wesleying |date=February 10, 2012 |access-date=April 26, 2013}}

Biography

Johnny Temple grew up on 16th Street Northwest in Washington D.C. In high school, he worked at a reggae record store where his interest in music peaked. In college he studied the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans at Wesleyan University,{{cite journal |url=http://stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=1169 |title=Little Big Man: Johnny Temple of Akashic Books |journal=Stop Smiling |issue=37 |date=October 31, 2008 |access-date=April 26, 2013}} eventually earning a master's degree in social work at Columbia University in New York City.

It was during his second year that Temple began playing bass guitar, with much of his influence being drawn from the punk rock and reggae scene in D.C.{{cite web |first1=Williams |last1=Cole |first2=Theodore |last2=Hamm |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2003/04/express/indie-publishing-johnny-temple |title=Johnny Temple with Williams Cole and Theodore Hamm |publisher=brooklynrail.org |date=April 2003 |access-date=April 26, 2013}}

Personal life

Johnny Temple married in 2002 and has two sons. He has lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn since 1990 and told The New York Times that one of his "goals in life is to leave Fort Greene as little as possible".Cotto, Andrew. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/how-johnny-temple-book-publisher-and-rocker-spends-his-sundays.html "How Johnny Temple, Book Publisher and Rocker, Spends His Sundays"], The New York Times, May 11, 2018. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Johnny Temple is the publisher and editor in chief of Akashic Books and also plays bass guitar in three bands. He lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with his wife, Kara Gilmour, 48, a senior director at Gibney Dance, a nonprofit, their two sons, Arthur, 12, and Abraham (Abie), 10, and a Basenji/cattle dog mix named Cuppy. 'One of my goals in life is to leave Fort Greene as little as possible,' said Mr. Temple, 51, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1990."

Discography

= Soulside =

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Year ! Title
1988 \| *Trigger*
1989 \| *Hot Bodi-Gram*

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Year

! Title

1988

| Trigger

1989

| Hot Bodi-Gram

= Girls Against Boys =

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Year ! Title
1992 \| *Tropic of Scorpio*
1993 \| *Venus Luxure No.1 Baby*
1994 \| *Cruise Yourself*
1996 \| *House of GVSB*
1998 \| **Freakonica**
2002 \| *You Can't Fight What You Can't See*

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Year

! Title

1992

| Tropic of Scorpio

1993

| Venus Luxure No.1 Baby

1994

| Cruise Yourself

1996

| House of GVSB

1998

| Freak*on*ica

2002

| You Can't Fight What You Can't See

= New Wet Kojak =

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Year ! Title
1995 \| *New Wet Kojak*
1997 \| *Nasty International*
2000 \| *Do Things*
2003 \| *This Is the Glamorous*

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Year

! Title

1995

| New Wet Kojak

1997

| Nasty International

2000

| Do Things

2003

| This Is the Glamorous