Gerhardt Fuchs, Drummer For Maserati, Dies In Freak Accident
November 10, 2009 by Morbid
Brooklyn, New York - A celebrated indie drummer died in an absolutely horrifying accident over the weekend. Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, 34, died after attempting to jump out of a stuck elevator. He was attending a formal fundraiser SaturdaySaturday reviews
night when he and a friend got stuck between floors in a freight elevator. His friend made the three to four foot leap from the elevator into a fourth floor hallway, but when Fuchs made the jump, a piece of his clothing got caught and he was jerked backwards and down the elevator shaft. Fuchs is well known in the indie community, having played for bands like !!!, Maserati, LCD Soundsystem, MSTRKRFT, The Juan MacLean and Turing Machine. The odd thing? This is Maserati’s second drummer to die. Fuchs had replaced Maserati’s drummer Mikel Gius who died in a 2005 bike accident. Check out a video of Fuchs in action after the jump.
RIP Fuchs. Beatcrave has a nice collection of YoutubeYouTube
videos featuring Fuchs as well.
Anyone else have this happen to them? Where my office used to be, the building was OLD. I worked on the fifth floor and normally took the stairs because the elevator was an nightmare every time you used it. Either it groaned and shimmied like the cable was gonna snap or it would occasionally open between floors. There was a gap – not quite like you see in a freight elevator – but it was there. But you had to sit there and make the decision of either waiting for someone or put your body in a position in which the elevator may decide to continue on its destination taking part of you with it. I hated that damn thing.
12:04 pm on November 10th, 2009
Wow, what a shitty way to die.
12:23 pm on November 10th, 2009
Slightly poor choice of wording? lol
I’ve never been stuck in an elevator, but I was suitably horrified at the beheading of the doctor guy a few years ago that it is a fear of mine, and I would probably not attempt to exit unless I could make a straight dart into the hallway with no step up/down.
I don’t think that there is ever a “good” death that people would choose for their loved ones, but freaky accidents like this definitely seem worse than the standard car accident or cancer.
1:17 pm on November 10th, 2009
Oh wow. I didn’t even notice it. Seriously – no pun was intended.
6:11 pm on November 10th, 2009
I really hate elevators. And escalators, but that’s not really relevant. The thought of being trapped like that scares me.
I hope he died instantly after the fall and didn’t suffer much. Poor guy.
12:21 pm on November 11th, 2009
Been there done that. That shit freaks me out, I have a fear of elevators. I hate when you stop and it drops just a pinch, for some reason I always hold on…
1:16 pm on November 11th, 2009
I freaking hate elevators. I’m scared to death of heights, and elevators scare the hell out of me for some reason related to that. I have a recurring nightmare in which I am in an elevator and the cable breaks and the elevators goes flying down…I always wake up breathless and scared shitless just before it hits bottom. This story sucks, poor guy.
8:40 pm on November 11th, 2009
Maserati make fantastic music,I am surely thankful for all the great ‘lesser knowns’ the torrent world can help expose us all too…
R.I.P Gerhardt Fuchs
P.S. – F-U Freight Elevators!,Leave Musicians The Hell Alone…*sigh…
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