Recent Years
After Gentle Giant disbanded in 1980, Weathers played a number of temporary positions, until he joined the psychedelic/progressive rock band Man when they reformed in 1983. Apart from a short spell, when he was unwell and Rick Martinez temporarily took over, he stayed with Man until 1996, recording 2 studio albums and 3 live albums, and becoming their longest serving drummer, allegedly leaving because Gentle Giant were about to reform. Ironically, he left Man shortly before Phil Ryan re-joined the band. John was infamously featured in the 1986 S4C TV programme Rocking With A Sikh, backing the Sikh Elvis impersonator Peter Singh, along with Martin Ace and Micky Jones.
It was variously reported that he was suffering from RSI or arthritis, but according to him was actually “diagnosed with a condition called Spinocerebellar Ataxia, which is akin to M.S.” The unpublished memoirs of his time spent in Morriston Hospital - Two Weeks in Pain - Under the Knife, hilariously document the trials of an NHS in-patient in post-op recovery.
John has appeared on several Welsh TV soundtracks, and in 2006 rejoined the latest re-incarnation of Wild Turkey, to record their album You & Me In The Jungle and tour Europe.
Weathers is also a keen ornithologist.
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