- Has appeared as a character in several comic books and graphic novels by Matt Howarth.
- Took his stage name from a villian in the Laurel and Hardy film Do Detectives Think? (1927).
- His 4-song vinyl EP, "Decomposing", was deliberately engineered to be played at any speed. The label listed the playing times for 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM playings.
- His real identity is subject to much speculation. While the Canadian Encyclopedia lists his real name as "Jeff Plewman", he refuses to confirm or deny this. Some fans have proposed that he might either be UK musician Billy Curie of the group Ultravox or Canadian musician Ben Mink. In an 1981 interview with the UK magazine "Smash Hits", an query for his real name was answered with the reply, "Nashville Thebodiah Slasher".
- A multi-instrumentalist, Nash could not play guitar, and refused to have any guitar tracks on his records. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd famously offered to add a track to the album Children of the Night, but Nash turned down his offer.
- Nash was an early adopter of the use of tape-loops, inspired by musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. During his debut at The Original 99 Cent Roxy Theatre in Toronto performing a live soundtrack to the Bunuel/Dali film Un Chien Andalou, Nash created live tape-loops, as well as playing electric violin, glockenspiel and using a drum machine run through a fuzz box.
- The musicians' union in Toronto in 1975 threatened to fine him if he continued to use a drum machine, rather than use a union drummer. Nash argued the charges by insisting that he was a performance artist and not a musician and therefore the rule did not apply to him.
- While Wikipedia claims that his true name is Jeffrey Plewman, there is still much debate that that may not be the case. Some still even speculate on his sex: some believe that "he" was actually Canadian pop singer Anne Murray.
- When the Hamilton Ontario punk rock band Teenage Head demanded more money to open for The Who at a concert in Toronto, a disgusted agent told that to Nash who happened to be in his office at the time. "I'll do it for free," said Nash. The agent told him he couldn't do it for nothing, and that he'd have to be paid scale. Nash got the gig as an opening act for his idols, and played to an audience of 50,000 people.
- Nash successfully sued the Pepsi company for using his unauthorized image in a commercial featuring the Toronto R & B band Rough Trade.
- In the fade-out in the song Eggs on Plate, Iggy Pop name checked Nash by singing "Hey Nash the Slash, why did you leave your sticker on the ceiling of my forty-two dollar and fifty cent motel suite?!" They didn't know each other; Iggy simply saw one of Nash's stickers on his ceiling of his motel. They would later become friends and tour together.
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