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Larry Townsend with Jeanne Barney and Jack Fritscher, the Los Angeles
and San Francisco founding editors of Drummer, Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion, Los Angeles, January 19, 2007. Photo by Mark Hemry (Back
cover photo)
While writing for The Advocate in 1968, Larry met his “leather
wife” Jeanne Barney, a staff founder of that magazine, whose advice
column “Smoke from Jeannie’s Lamp” moved to Drummer magazine
when publisher John Embry, who founded Drummer all by himself in
November 1971 and collaborated on it with Larry Townsend in 1972,
hired her as editor from 1975 to 1976. Embry knew that Larry, whom he
asked, should have been the founding LA editor-in-chief of Drummer,
but alpha Larry said no. So alpha Embry chose Jeanne Barney who was
more clerical and would bend to his will—until she didn’t.

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