Drummer Who Played With John Legend Dies In Elevator Accident
Nov 10th, 2009 by Bilal Ali
Gerhardt Fuchs, a versatile drummer who just this summer appeared on Late Show With David Letterman during a performance with John Legend, died on November 8 after a freak accident, falling to his death in the elevator shaft of an industrial building in Brooklyn.
Fuchs, 34, had attended a benefit party on a building’s seventh floor and was stuck on a freight elevator between the fourth and fifth floors, police say. 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.
Fuchs grew up in Marietta, Ga., and moved to New York in 1995. He performed in a number of bands, including one from Toronto called MSTRKRFT, pronounced “Mastercraft.” It was in this band that Fuchs performed on the Letterman show with Legend, the featured vocalist on a song called “Heartbreaker” on the band’s Fist of God CD.