#Nash the Slash

[dirksawesomesprites]

Can you do Nash the Slash he's my child!1!!1!

One with and one without bandages!

Here's him without bandages ^^, you can Google Nash and see his regular outfit

his normal outfit looks like dad egbert i just had to...

and the one of the picture!

idk why but he looks like weird al to me...

[mudwerks]

(via One O'Clock Tomorrow - FM (1978)

[radiophd]

nash the slash -- give me the creeps

[the-other-nightmare-people]

Little drawing for a non-existent fandom

Inspired by user imactualsize

[psychterminal]

Nash the Slash & FM - Black Noise / live video

[fordhampr]

LEGENDARY MUSICIAN "NASH THE SLASH" IS SUBJECT OF NEW DOCUMENTARY....now nearing completion

When I first arrived in Toronto in the mid-70s (from Australia, via UK), I was obsessed with disco and all the popular dances – I quickly became one of Toronto’s “disco dollies” who danced at all the popular clubs, getting the crowd hot and thirsty, and becoming known as a draw for the crowds. The high point of my club career was dancing on stage with Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra…

[mywifeleftme]

60: Nash the Slash // And You Thought You Were Normal

And You Thought You Were Normal Nash the Slash 1982, Shanghai (Bandcamp) If ever an artist deserved a slot in any gonzo-friendly record collection, it’s Toronto’s Nash the Slash. Nash was never seen without his trademark Invisible Man-style swaddling of bandages and black sunglasses, typically costumed in a white tuxedo and top-hat and wielding an electric violin or mandolin like a sparking angle grinder. He hollered more than sang, usually through some manner of vocal processing than gave his voice the watery snarl of a monstrous burn victim out for revenge. The music of his ’80s hey day fell somewhere between the synth-driven prog of a Mike Oldfield or a Jean-Michel Jarre and the broody synthpop of Gary Numan, though as you might gather Nash’s music was far more biting than any of those acts.

Many of his artistic peers loved him—Numan and Iggy Pop invited him to open for them, and he provided the score for early films by Canada’s great indie filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Highway 61). But, despite said fans and peers saying the appropriate platitudes re: their bewilderment that he didn’t become a bigger star, it seems transparently obvious why he remains a cult figure: he was a weird misanthrope from Toronto who chose to wear a horribly uncomfortable and visually unsettling costume and made weird misanthropic music. I’ve known a number of crusty, narrowly brilliant old artists who’ve felt they deserved a better shake from the world—and also would’ve burned their own work before allowing someone who seemed like a square to buy any of it.

That’s an accounting criticism, not an artistic one. And You Thought You Were Normal is Nash the Slash at his best. It eschews the snarky classic rock covers he leaned on for Children of the Night and American Band-ages, leaving more space for bent pop originals (side one) and expansive instrumental compositions (side two). As usual, Nash plays everything himself and produces all but one track, the exception being a young Daniel Lanois on the boards for robot party highlight “Dance After Curfew” (a club hit in Iron Curtain-era Poland!). Of the songier songs, “Vincent’s Crows” is the other winner, an improbably beautiful ode to the dissolution of the self featuring Nash’s most impassioned vocals and violin.

Your mileage may vary with side two, depending on your taste for the soundtracks of violent ���80s science fiction films, but I find it to be even more fun than the flip. When I first put it on my table, I sent a series of increasingly lengthy voice memos to my friend Haakon (who’d recommended it), freaking out to them about how sick Nash’s shredding is on “Stalker,” a fleet-fingered showcase that is even cooler than I thought Joe Satriani’s “Surfing with the Alien” was when I was 14.

You’ve read enough. Time for you to fall into a live video hole. Start here, and as you do, reflect on the fact that they put this on Canadian TV in the 1980s:

60/365

[dadrockconfessions]

[mikhailoism]

kinda sad to me that there's no truck bombing aus where bobby was on the truck and he's the one who gets crushed........

[rodeoromeo]

did you SEE this shit the stephen stills official instagram posted this morning because I have been rolling around kicking my legs and squealing for over an hour

[go-go-devil]

Has ANYONE here ever listened to “Black Noise” by FM?

[the-other-nightmare-people]

Me when I'm a silly little Nashy

[transgenderastarion]

Bobby hasnt been hurt enough in this show can we leave buck alone now and get his ass instead

[nashdoesstuff]

time to make fun of transphobes!

[sylvarisrealm]

Considering Ez was served his whole life I feel like he would try to cook things slow out of fear and end up getting impatient and burn everything 😭 he would probably call his girlie whose name I have yet to decide

Nash knows how to survive, not exactly how to cook HAJAK he can probably tell u things u can eat raw (give warnings about toxic mushrooms and such too) ((he learnt that info the hard way))

I'm thinking they might try to impress Ez with their favorite food or a fancy dish and end up having to call his godparents (reveal soon question mark)

I'm realizing just now that the others probably opened a whole new world of possibilies regarding food/meals to Nash.. 😞

Which OC would call another OC for directions on how to cook something?

Bonus: who are they calling and what dish?