![]() What Jim had, Dannie didn't, and what Dannie had, Jim didn't." Close friend Bill Maney confirms, "You definitely got the sense that they really loved each other, but they had some amazing ways of showing it which included beating the shit out of each other." Their friend and photographer Patty Heffley recalls, "Jim and Dannie were an amazing couple … they fit together like glue. Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, previously carpenters and cabinet makers, weren't just record collectors with a dream: they were lovers and partners, an openly gay couple in the mid-1970s when homosexuality had been decriminalized only a decade or so earlier. Wax Trax! was an early LGBTQ haven for Midwestern glam rockers and punks See dates here - and read on to discover ten things you may not have known about the famed label and record store.ġ. These special events will also feature a panel discussion and performances by Ministry (doing a Wax Trax! era set) and Cold Cave. Throughout April, Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records will be screened at select cities across the U.S. The story of Wax Trax! centers on late founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher (Nash passed in 1995, Flesher in 2010), whose unique and passionate dedication to discovering - and fostering an accepting atmosphere for - new progressive, and subversive, music kick-started an industrial juggernaut: from Wax Trax!'s first physical store established in Denver in the mid-1970s, through their 1978 move to Chicago and the label's eventual sale to TVT Records in 1992. Visit Twist and Shout Records (located near East High School - actor Don Cheadle’s alma mater) or Wax Trax Records (where Multi-City Editor Jessalin once found a signed Dire Straits album for her father).Through interviews with such notable artists as Dave Grohl, Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen, Trent Reznor, Fugazi's Ian MacKaye and many more, the history of Wax Trax! takes on new life through the pieced-together narrative formed from the memories of those who were there.
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