Last Sunday another musical great passed away after falling down an elevator shaft in NY. Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs was one of those people who let his talent do the talking for him.

Jerry, was the drummer for such bands as The Juan Maclean, Holy Ghost, the Turning Machine and Maserati. We really dont know much about him, but we do know that his music has inspired many of us as well as many others in so many ways.

As reported by the NY TIMES:

At about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Mr. Fuchs, 34, who had attended a benefit party on the building’s seventh floor, was stuck on a freight elevator between the fourth and fifth floors, friends and the police said. He had been trying to jump out of the stalled car when his jacket got caught on something, causing him to fall to the bottom of the shaft. Another man, who was not identified by the police, was riding with Mr. Fuchs in the elevator but safely jumped to a fourth floor hallway.

Alex Frankel, Mr. Fuchs’s roommate in Bushwick, who sings with the band Holy Ghost!, said he arrived at the party just before 1 a.m. and heard that somebody had fallen. He peered into the shaft and saw a figure lying face down.

“We flipped him over and it was Jerry,” Mr. Frankel said. “When we found him he was not able to talk.”

Mr. Fuchs was pronounced dead at Bellevue Medical Center.

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