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P ower for the powerless. That's just one of the limit
less, perpetually self-generating reasons to listen to
or play music. Bound as we are to the grind, music is
creative information freed from visual context. So, for
example, you could put on side one of Pink Floyd's Meddle and
imagine yourself at the helm of a bronze chariot, driving like
Jehu to certain glory. Similar feelings of triumph need not be
paired with such Cecil B. DeMille imagery. The point is, music
is your escape-hatch to feeling awesome wnile circumstances
might dictate otherwise. But reality is what it is, and the
reality that Coley Dennis, Matt Cherry and Chris McNeal—-the
musicians who make up Maserati—have lived in for the past
year is unmistakably heavy. Jerry Fuchs, drummer, friend and
collaborator, died trying to escape from a stuck freight eleva
tor in Brooklyn, NY one year ago this month. Fuch's death
came halfway through the band's progress on its latest album,
Pyramid of the Sun. The details surrounding what McNeal calls
"the worst night of my life" and the obviously wrenching emo
tions associated with it are just that: obvious. Here, we will
focus on what may not be so obvious: how a trio finishes what
a quartet started.
"So, I said, we'll see if he wants to do it. If he doesn't want
to do it we might have to rethink everything," says Dennis.
"It took a lot of convincing over Jameson shots, but once he
decided to come onboard and everything started gelling and
writing songs, it was obvious he was bringing a lot of cre
ative things to the table... a lot of things that at the time we
weren't super into."
■HA this point, it had already become clear that the
■K VF band was becoming interested in expanding
mM W beyond the loud/quiet dichotomy. But Fuchs'
arrivafand his deeply entrenched love of krautrock and simi
larly obscure modes of classic space-rock, pushed these inclina
tions for exploration into high gear. "He was really bringing
these Neu-style drums and a lot of bands that I hadn't heard
of at the time, and he was really dumping a ton of influence
on the band," says Dennis. "That Inventions record was a mish
mash of all of that."
Inventions for the New Season, Maserati's first album with
Fuchs and first on Temporary Residence Records, was aptly
named. The opening track, "Inventions," is doubly indicative
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M aserati was formed 10 years ago by guitarists Cherry
and Dennis, who bonded over a mutual appreciation for
the dynamic racket of bands like Sonic Youth, Mogwai
and Tristeza. Along with bassist Steve Scarborough and drum
mer Phil "Thrill" Horan, they established a solid M.O.: patient
compositions, clockwork arrangements and no vocals. In 2005,
just as they were beginning to gamer more-than-modest atten
tion, Horan amiably floated off of the drum throne and headed
for points west; he eventually became the lead dancer in San
Francisco-by-way-of-Athens stoner-pop band Still Flyin' The
band's future was nebulous at best and hinged on the notable
absence in the rhythm section.
"Guess when it came time to think about playing with a
new drummer, if we were gonna continue, Jerry was someone I
looked up to and thought was a great drummer and was a bro
and kind of a logical choice," says Dennis.
A onetime design major at the University of Georgia, Jerry
Fuchs was splitting his time between Athens and New York as
his undeniable talents as a drummer became too outsized to
be contained by a single locale. He'd developed his chops in
the Athens band The Martians, but he had begun to make him
self known as a figure of respect among indie drummers coast
to coast while performing in the New York-based trio Turing
Machine. He v?bs known equally for his power, his precision and
his restraint.
of their new drummer's impact and genius. The percolating
guitar fade-in references Inventions for the Electric Guitar, the
pioneering 1974 masterwork of Ash Ra Tempel guitarist Manuel
Gottsching. Perhaps more notably, though, the drums don't
even appear until almost the exact middle of the near-10-
minute track. As stated above: restraint.
Scarborough moved to Portland, OR, and Chris McNeal
began subbing on bass, eventually segueing into the role of
full-time bassist It was around this time that Fuchs introduced
Maserati to Pittsburgh-based prog band Zombi. A niche band
within the niche world of indie rock, Zombi is the coalescence
of keyboardist/bassist Steve Moore's cinematic analog synth
work and drummer Anthony Paterra's impossibly nerdy drum
ming. In a nutshell, imagine Rush soundtracking Dario Argento
films. Maserati's friendship with Zombi continued to nurture
the band's gravitation toward the outer reaches of rock's secret
histories in space exploration. After a well-received split IP
with Zombi, Maserati began to write its next full-length, flying
Fuch's down for weekends of marathon jamming and writing at
Cherry's family lake house.
Fuchs' commitment to Maserati required no small effort on
his part in the realm of scheduling. Since joining the group,
he'd been enlisted as touring drummer for California-based
disco-punk pand !!!, as well as 0FA Records electronic act The
Juan MacLean.
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