Wax Trax concerts to salute founders and their misfit genius
Throwing a party in honor of Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, the founders of Wax Trax Records, is a daunting task. There were parties, and then there were Wax Trax bacchanals. But Jim Nash’s daughter is giving it a try.
“They were great guys – crazy, but great,” says Julia Nash, who is spearheading a series of tribute concerts dubbed the “Wax Trax! Records Retrospectable” April 15-17 at Metro for the two gone-but-not-forgotten life partners (Jim Nash died in 1995, Flesher in 2010).
“After Dannie passed, we thought, ‘This is it, the end of an era,’ ” Julia Nash says. “It was time to celebrate what they had done. But I’ve gotten overwhelmed with how huge it has become. It started out kind of intimate and small, and it’s become this huge thing that I am trying to reel in before I lose it completely.”
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