Nash The Slash
Imagine a blend of Gary Numan, early Pink Floyd, Jean-Michel Jarre, and the Stranglers and you have a sense of Nash the Slash's music. Born in Toronto in 1948, Jeff Plewman zealously guarded his identity for much of his musical career, appearing on-stage as Nash the Slash with his face swathed completely in surgical bandages. One of music's true eccentrics, he was the type of artist who appeared on an instrumental LP that billed itself as playable at any speed.
Plewman first surfaced as Nash the Slash in 1976 as an electric violinist and mandolin player with vocalist, bassist, and synthesizer player Cameron Hawkins as FM. Rejecting the conformity of AM radio, they experimented electronically in the manner of Brian Eno. Like Andy Warhol and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable live presentation that helped launch Velvet Underground, FM's hometown concert debut in Toronto blew away the crowd with an assault of visual images coupled with sound. It set the pattern for Nash's solo career, which began in 1978 with an audiovisual collaboration with painter Robert Vanderhorst, who would reappear later in Nash's career. Following his quirky vision, Nash wrote the music and played all the instruments, even handling the engineering and production at times on his first several albums. An exception was one tune that Daniel Lanois produced on 1982's And You Thought You Were Normal.
Nash regrouped with different incarnations of FM over the years. While his unconventional ideas limited collaborative possibilities, he recorded and toured with Numan. Nash scored soundtracks periodically, notably releasing a CD of his score for the 1991 Canadian cult favorite Highway 61, which featured singer Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys in a small role. Nash's first two albums were repackaged on CD in 1997, and he continued to work on new material. However, he announced his retirement in 2012, stating on his website that he was "rolling up the bandages" given the changes in the music scene and his own waning enthusiasm. Jeff Plewman, aka Nash the Slash, died in May 2014 at the age of 66.
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Discographie
14 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Bedside Companion (2016 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1978
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Children of the Night (2016 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1980
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Dreams and Nightmares (2016 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1979
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Hammersmith Holocaust (2016 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1980
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Highway 61 (The Original Score)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1991
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Un Chien Andalou (LIVE AT THE ORIGINAL 99c ROXY) [2019 Remaster]
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 2019
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And You Thought You Were Normal (2017 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 août 1982
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 12 mars 2008
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Decomposing (2017 Remaster)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1981
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Lost In Space (Reel-To-Reel Obscurities)
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 juin 2001
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American BandAges
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 1 janv. 1984
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Reckless Use Of Electricity
Rock - Paru chez Cut-Throat Records le 4 juin 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo