Remembering Jerry Fuchs, The Most Wanted Drummer In Brooklyn

• very good - very hard but towards the end of the book you get the feeling he belives his own hype to much.

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• What an absolute tragedy. i remember i saw turing machine play at mercury several years ago and i was mesmerized by his drumming - have never forgotten his performance to this day. i remember thinking he was possibly the best drummer i had ever seen in my entire life. Some musicians are so good that the only physical response is exhubrant and incredulous laughter, very few people can trigger that response in me - jerry played drums that made me laugh. He was an absolute monster on the kit. Words fail to describe what it was like to watch him. stunning loss...

• 'Anonymous' is surely a frustrated musician who has yet to 'make it.' Probably has loads of 'chops' and can't understand why all these other people are so successful while he toils away. Plus, he is a coward. He would never say this to my face.

• Luckily by default of my husband being a musician and his interest in the band Maserati, I had the opportunity to see Jerry play several times. I'm not an expert on the quality of a musician, but I tell you it is not hard to recognize talent when it is as great as his was. The man also clearly had passion for what he did and was a gracious person to boot - we have spoken with him at his shows. You have to acknowledge and respect a person like that because people who touch others through their passion like that are few and far between. It is a loss to this world that he is no longer with us. Oh and "anonymous" you are an asshole know-nothing - not hard to recognize that either.

• very talented drummer. i saw him when the juan mclean did it at the basement function room at the tribeca grand hotel. it was a free gig way back '06 or so. i was close to the stage and he made the crowd in the mood to dance and groove. i even got to buy that cd and would always recall how he did perform that night, it was a blast then. i send my condolences to his family and loved ones that have in one musical way or another have been touched by his loss. r.i.p. jerry.

• as a 30 year old drummer in a band from Brooklyn, I didn't even know Jerry until I read this story... but for some reason I feel like I've known him forever, and for some reason I am as saddened by his death as if someone from my own family had died. If this is the impact Jerry has on me in his death, I could only imagine what he must have been like to party with, jam with, make music with, and be friends with while he was alive. I want to extend my deepest condolences to all of his friends, family, and to the world of music for this great loss... I am trying to come close to how I feel with these words, but I don't think I am doing my feelings justice. There is nothing more I can say except, how the fuck does he do that one handed drum fill???? Rest in peace, say "hi" to John Bonham for me, and I hope you are enjoying your heavenly drum kit up in that great gig in the sky!

• ANONYMOUS... you are a complete douche bag, have some fucking respect, asshole. I hope someone close to you dies so that we can all shit on your loss too. Next time keep your dumb ass comments inside your tiny shit bird brain.

• I still can't believe it. Jerry's passing is a great loss. I am a huge fan of the band Maserati and was fortunate enough to see them live 3 times with Jerry drumming right there in front. I am a drummer and he truly does inspire me. His drumming was beyond solid and yet so graceful and powerful. I didn't know him but in a way it seemed like I did. He seemed like a really great guy with an excellent personality. I'm gonna miss him.

• Anonymous, you have no class. This is a great loss to music, and my heart goes out to his friends and family.

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• I know it's fucked up, but someone in the press has got to know this late great personally, cause I know shit loads of motherfuckers that could out play him and y'all wouldn't give a fuck if they was dead or not...

• I saw Jerry perform just once in Atlanta earlier this year. I didn't know who he was but told friends after the show that "the guy with the 'stache was incredible". I hate to hear of this great loss. Here are some photos I took of Jerry Fuch at that Juan Maclean show at The Earl in May 2009. http://www.whaun.com/2009/05/the-juan-maclean-the-earl/

• Jerry Fuchs is literally one of maybe three drummers that I have seen in my nine years (and hundreds of shows) living in NYC that I will never forget. It was at a Turing Machine, Forms, Don Cabellero show at North Six some years back. He absolutely blew my mind. I think the reason I remember him so well is because drummers nowadays are generally weak and limited in what they do and in what their bands demand. Nowadays, a drummer just sort of sits in the background and blends in, plays a beat, barely does the job, and doesn't 'own' his/her trade. It's become such a fact of show-going life that when you see someone like Jerry, there is a unanimous, room wide-holy fuck reaction. He was a drummers drummer; he had skill, power, presence, and above all, TASTE. He wasn't just some dude that played drums. He was a guy that, helped by his charm, sat virtually alone on a plateau leaps and bounds above everyone else. This is a loss for music fans and musicians alike. RIP Jerry. I am so sorry it had to end like this.

• So sad... no words... a fucking loss, for damn sure... Without getting all hippy-dippy, nobody with that much of a glow deserves to go out in such a dark way. There's enough miserable people in the world (myself included), that taking even one genuine, happy, talented person out of the equation is a devastating loss that burns more than stings. This is bullshit. The guy deserved better. I'm sorry to all his family and friends. At the very least, you'll have a lot of stories, memories, and music to pull from out of his time well spent on this planet. He did in 34 years what most people couldn't accomplish in a lifetime. That fact should not be forgotten. R.I.P. J.F.

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