Jerry Fuchs

Jerry Fuchs

Jerry Fuchs was a drummer for bands like !!! and Maserati. He died in November 2009 after falling down an elevator shaft in Brooklyn. He fell five stories and died in the hospital following the incident.

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Early November brought news of tragic death of Maserati drummer Jerry Fuchs, who died in an accident on November 8th. As Wikipedia states: Early in the morning on November 8, 2009, Fuchs was caught in a broken elevator in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, and when he attempted to jump out of the car, he accidentally fell to his death down the elevator shaft. He was attending a benefit to raise education funds for underprivileged children in India. Outside of Maserati, Fuchs was also involved with numerous other bands, including Turing Machine and !!! and he also worked with Juan McLean. Related posts: In ... Read Full Story
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“> Photo: Adam Bueb Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, a drummer for indie-rock bands like !!!, the Juan MacLean and most recently Maserati, died early Sunday morning, November 8th, after falling down an elevator shaft. Fuchs was 34. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, who once worked with Fuchs, told the New York Times Fuchs was “one of the only people we all knew who was literally great at what he did.” According to reports, Fuchs and a friend were attending a benefit at a Williamsburg, Brooklyn warehouse when the freight elevator they were in got stuck between floors. While Fuchs’ friend made the four-foot jump out of ... Read Full Story
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Maserati/Juan Maclean/onetime-!!! drummer Jerry Fuchs died this weekend. He was attempting to jump a few feet from a broken elevator when a piece of his clothing got caught, pulling him into the shaft. He fell five stories. Our condolences to his family and friends. More at Gothamist . Maserati/Juan Maclean/onetime-!!! drummer Jerry Fuchs died this weekend. He was attempting to jump a few feet from a broken elevator when a piece of his clothing got caught, pulling him into the shaft. He fell five stories. Our condolences to his family and friends. More at Gothamist . Read Full Story
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Thirty-four-year-old Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs, a beloved fixture of both the New York and Athens, Georgia, rock scenes who played with LCD Soundsystem, !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk), Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT, and The Juan MacLean, died Saturday night after attempting to crawl out of a broken elevator shaft at a benefit party in Brooklyn. Read Full Story
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Jerry Fuchs , a well-known drummer for bands like !!!, Maserati and the Juan MacLean, died this morning in a hospital in New York after he fell 5 stories down an elevator shaft at a charity party last night in Brooklyn. He was 34. The late Jerry Fuchs with Maserati bandmate Coley Dennis. (notofu.com) Sources say he and a friend were in the elevator when it stopped above the 5th floor. Then, the two supposedly tried to jump down to the 5th floor, but a piece of Jerry's clothing got caught, causing him to swing back, then fall down to the bottom of the ... Read Full Story
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Filed under: News, R.I.P., New MusicDespite its share of setbacks and heartaches, Brooklyn 's !!! will soldier on, according to frontman Nic Offer. Coping with the sad and shocking death of former drummer Jerry Fuchs last month, plus the departure of co-founder John Pugh after 2007's 'Myth Takes,' Offer says the eight-piece dance-punk collective will finally release a new, yet-to-be-titled album in 2010."It's about 90 percent done," Offer told...  
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Insanely sad news broke on Sunday about the death of 34-year-old Gerhardt Fuchs of Brooklyn, New York. Known as Jerry Fuchs to a generation of New York music fans, he was currently the drummer in instrumentalists Maserati and disco-ish outfit The Juan MacLean. He had also played in punk-funkers !!! and tight-rockers Turing Machine, and appeared on records by punks Panthers and fearsome Ukrainian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone. Fuchs was...  
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Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs, 34, a drummer popular in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and highly respected by fellow musicians died in an elevator shaft accident in Bushwick. From the New York Times: “His passing puts an enormous hold on the Brooklyn music scene,” said Jon Fine, a friend of Mr. Fuchs’s and a columnist for Business Week. “The world of independent music has sustained a really significant loss.”  
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Drummer Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs died early Sunday (11/8) morning after falling four stories down an elevator shaft in an industrial building in Brooklyn, according to The New York Times.Fuchs, 34, who had attended a benefit party on the building's seventh floor, had been trying to jump out of a stalled elevator car when his jacket got caught on something, causing him to fall, the Times reported.Local police told reporters that there was no...  
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By Leah Greenblatt Beloved fixture of both the N.Y. and Athens, Ga., rock scenes, died Saturday in attempt to crawl out of a broken elevator shaft in Brooklyn  
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Jerry Fuchs was a beast. The drummer for 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival performers !!! and Maserati was a graduate from the “bang them as hard as you can” school of drumming, a brilliant player who paired note-perfect pounding with animal fury. He died early Sunday morning after falling down an elevator shaft in Brooklyn. He was 34. The Village Voice has an excellent remembrance posted that’s worth your time. Maserati already lost...  
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Photo by Joshi Radin The man who was with Jerry Fuchs during his final moments in an elevator in Williamsburg says he hasn't been able to sleep since the incident on early Sunday morning. The Daily News talked to Stephen Alessi, who was going to the same party, but didn't know Fuchs personally. He told the paper, "I tried to reach out for him. I was too far and it happened so fast, in a split second." Alessi jumped off the unmanned...  
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Former !!! drummer Jerry Fuchs has suffered a fatal accident in Williamsburg.Besides the Google-defying !!!, Fuchs drummed for Holy Ghost, Turing Machine, Juan MacLean and Maserati. And he drummed his ass off for them. More into solidity of sound than the rhetorical flourish, Fuchs made the insanely difficult look incredibly easy.Born in 1974, Fuchs studied graphic design at the University Of Georgia. Alongside drumming, he also did freelance...  
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Jerry Fuchs "As the new millennium started gearing up, there was a obvious reason why Jerry started playing with all the DFA-affiliated bands (The Juan Maclean, !!!, etc.) as time went on: He was an invaluable monster on the drums...  
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Gerhardt Fuchs grew up playing the drums in Georgia and went on to perform with bands that toured across the country, but it was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that he forged his reputation as a dynamic, driving drummer widely esteemed by...  
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