DRUMMER
New York City and followers of the indie-music scene are mourning the tragic death of drummer Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, who died on Sunday from a five-story fall down an elevator shaft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While riding in a manual freight elevator during a benefit party, the elevator got stuck between the fourth and fifth floors. A passenger riding with Fuchs had managed to jump to the fourth floor, but on one of Fuchs’ attempts to jump to the fifth floor, his clothing caught on something in the passageway and he fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft.
Alex Frankel, Fuchs’ roommate and singer of the band Holy Ghost!, of which Fuchs was the drummer, arrived at the party shortly before 1AM to find the distressing news that someone had fallen down the elevator shaft.
After an aggravating day of forced backtracking through the New York subway system on Saturday (thank you MTA construction), I finally made it to see Drummer play with the Royal Bangs at the Mercury Lounge on Houston Street. I guess I made the rookie mistake of showing up early and I was turned away from the door, and forced to catch a drink at one of the nearby pubs along the street. I made another attempt to get into the lounge at 9:00, when the show was scheduled, and had to wait again to get into the door. Feeling my patience growing even thinner, I opted to return later and began to wander aimlessly around the Lower East Side wondering why they wouldn’t just let me into the club so that I could have a drink before the show.
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