Sad news. I’m sorry to have to tell you that Larry Townsend died the day before yesterday, July 29th, 2008, from a combination of viral pneumonia and a highly infectious lung problem. His friend Jack Fritscher, founding editor of Drummer Magazine in 1975, sent me the following Larry-approved biography which appeared in the recently published (June, 2008) leather-heritage book, Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer, for which Larry provided an “Eyewitness Introduction,” his last published writing: