My Nash The Slash coincidence in Hachioji. Perhaps the biggest coincidence.

Ok. Some of you who have been following me on Facebook have probably been wondering, just who IS that "Invisible Man"-like masked figure dressed in a white suit, top hat, and playing a violin that now stands in as my Facebook Profile Picture? Well, it's time to chronicle once again yet another amazing coincidence that has occurred to me during this truly awesome trip to Japan that just keeps linking back to favorite events in my past. The man is the famous, NASH THE SLASH, a lone, rocking Canadian musician and songwriter who I briefly eulogized on Facebook.  Here is the link to the eulogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_the_Slash. Everything you need to know about Nash is in this Wiki link. Feel free to watch and listen to Nash perform on numerous YouTube videos. As background, my Maryland friend and long-time co-worker at AACDSS (Anne Arundel County Department of Social Services), Debbie Couzantino, turned me on to Nash back in the early '80's. It was my good fortune to see Nash perform live in Baltimore on a number of occasions when he toured the East Coast, most notably, for you Baltamorons, at the famous hipster hangout, the Marble Bar: http://www.baltimoreorless.com/…/retro-baltimore-the-2016-…/. Anyway, the Japanese connection - I had earlier commented in a Facebook post that during our first week here in Japan back in April it was our good fortune to meet Marc Sebastion-Jones, a transplanted British English professor at Hachioji's Sherlock Holmes Pub. It was a great meeting as I was already desperate to have someone to talk to who speaks English and Marc and I were immediately sympatico. Marc has lived in Japan for over twenty years and is married to Yusimi, a beautiful Japanese woman. He teaches at a local university (not Soka U where Jody is teaching). One day Marc took me to Disc Union, a chain of internationally famous used-record stores in Japan. I was in pig-heaven. The store was fabulous. For some reason, Nash came into my mind and I said to Marc who speaks Japanese, "Could you ask the clerks if they have any Nash the Slash LPs or CDs? You probably don't know Nash, do you?" Marc just looked at me, stunned that I knew Nash, and said, "Know Him? I helped him with one of his videos and even performed in one of them." Now it was my turn to be stunned. What were the chances that I would link up with someone thousands of miles from home, and in Japan of all places, who personally knew one of my music icons from over 37 years ago and even performed in one of his videos? Marc had met Nash at the bar after one of Nash's performances back in 1980 when Nash was touring England. Marc wondered to this normal looking man at the bar who was this man behind the bandages and Nash, who was now in his civies, said, "that man is me." Nash asked Marc if he would like to help him with some of his videos and Marc immediately agreed. Later, Marc sent me the link to Nash's cover video of the Jan and Dean song, DEAD MAN'S TURN, and told me that he was the man off-camera who was shaking the car up and down while Nash was driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m229hY3Onak. He also told me that he appeared in Nash's cover video of the Rolling Stones, 19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, (here is the YouTube link):
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqUddvgOsJU&list=LLDFVzoJlvvp6Lm8OavxmfKw& Marc is the first man you see seated wearing a fedora and sporting black lips. This video dates back to 1981. It was great to see Marc as a young man 36 years ago alongside Nash. I don't know why I'm having so many remarkable coincidences here in Japan. This has never happened to me before in any of my other trips abroad. Life is strange.

And here is Marc below in the video wearing his fedora.