Video: The Juan Maclean - Argument in Seattle 9/10/08

Jerry Fuchs "As the new millennium started gearing up, there was a obvious reason why Jerry started playing with all the DFA -affiliated bands ( The Juan Maclean , !!! , etc.) as time went on: He was an invaluable monster on the drums that could recreate those motorik-like disco beats and make it sound human. Goddamn, the hair on the back of my neck stands on end when I think about it. Recent years saw him reaffirm his roots in Athens as he became the incredibly propulsive backbone to Maserati [...]

Local musician Jerry Fuchs, the drummer of Athens' Maserati and formerly of !!! , passed away early this morning in Brooklyn New York after falling down an elevator shaft in Williamsburg. Details can found here . Chunklet has a nice remembrance and tribute here . I was only able to catch his percussive genius once with Maserati at Corndogorama 2008, so here are a few videos from that show as well as a couple of other Fuchs related vids: [...]

DFA darlings the Juan Maclean will be wrapping up their recent month-long tour tonight in Philadelphia, at Johnny Brenda's. This will no doubt come as a relief to our local neon-sect, exhausted by the plethora of guitars at the venue of late, but also to the Juan dudes themselves. After all, I imagine its a pretty tough sell, hawking highbrow dance across America. A couple weeks ago Seattle's The Stranger was privy to a high-tension moment backstage, when Juan himself and drummer Jerry Fuchs got all kinds of screeching bitchy at one another. The [...]

Juan Maclean, can somebody get Jerry midi arms? Juan, you so crazy! Juan Maclean Tour Diary

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• The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing