GOOD-BYE DENNY

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Denny Doherty of the Mamas and Papas dead at 66 - 2:30PM Saturday January 20, 2007

TORONTO - Denny Doherty, a member of the 1960s folk-rock group, the Mamas and the Papas, which was known for such hits as California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday, has died at age 66.

His sister, Frances Arnold, said the singer-songwriter died on Friday in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, after a short illness, Canadian Press reported.

Doherty was the only Canadian in the Mamas and the Papas along with Americans John Phillips, the group's chief songwriter, Phillips' wife Michelle, and singer Cass Elliot.

In 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Doherty was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

Doherty, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, co-founded a folk group called the Colonials in Montreal in 1960 and later drifted into the New York folk scene, where he met Elliot. He joined her in a band, the Mugwumps, along with another Canadian, Zal Yanovsky, later of the Luvin' Spoonful.

Doherty, Elliot and John and Michelle Philips formed the Mamas and the Papas in 1965 after signing a recording contract with Dunhill Records. Between 1965 and 1968 they were a big part of a California pop scene that included such bands as the Byrds and the Beach Boys.

In 1966 California Dreamin' became the first of a succession of hits that included Monday, Monday, Go Where You Wanna Go, and Dedicated to the One I Love that were characterized by soaring harmonies with Dohertry signing tenor.

The band sold an estimated 20 million albums but relationships among its members was undermined by jealousy and drug use.

Doherty co-wrote the songs I Saw Her Again Last Night and Got a Feelin'.

The Mamas and the Papas disbanded in 1968 following John and Michelle Phillips' divorce. The group reformed briefly in 1971.

Doherty made a solo album in 1974, and in the 1990s he had a major role in the children's TV series Theodore Tugboat, in which he voiced all the characters and played the Harbourmaster.

The 30-year-old Elliot suffered a fatal heart attack in 1974. John Phillips died in 2001 at 65.

Michelle Phillips is now the only surviving member of the band.

Denny I've- "Got a Feelin'" that a lot of people will be "California Dreamin'" this winter.

Good-bye for now

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Shot in the eye

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Firstly, to set the scene. Since the age of 26 I have had numerous sexual encounters with guys, but I have never done anything that put me at risk of contracting anything nasty. I have never had intercourse with a guy for example, and I have never sucked a guy off right thru to the end. I do sometimes fantasise about going further, but that desire has so far not expressed itself when we've been at it.

So last weekend, a few days after 'coming out' and being more relaxed about my sexuality than ever before, I ended up being accidently 'shot in the eye' by a guy that I had invited over, after watching him a little bit too intently when he was getting off. If it's happened to anyone else here, I know you'll appreciate how uncomfortable that it feels. It stings, and it does so for a while... but my biggest concern was the fear that I may have contracted something off the guy that I didn't want to think about. I spent the rest of the night in a frenzy, searching the net for information about the element of risk, and then not getting much sleep after that.

I met the guy on a gay website. It was the third hookup I have made online, but it's something I don't really wish to pursue anymore. Not because of what happened on the weekend, but because I need and seek something deeper, it's my sexual evolution revolution. Anyhow, the guy was nice, I sneeked him into my room, and we made out while stripping off. We spent alot of time just touching and massaging each other, with some kissing, and a little bit of sucking. It was gentle and it was preety sensual. We ended up in a position with me being on my back and him sitting on my thighs. And I lay there eagerly waiting for him to climax, waiting for him to cum, and wanting to watch it happen. And when he did, his first spurt hit me in the eye.

OK. This is what I have learnt. There is a risk of catching an STD thru the eye if he was infected with something, but the risk of transmission is close to negligable. i.e when it comes to hiv, it's less than 1%. I don't know how they calculate that figure, as there is apparently no confirmed cases of it being passed on that way.

I contacted the guy the next day by email and spelled out my worries to him. I asked him some preety direct questions in a gentle kind of way. He did respond quickly and kindly, and from what he told me, I do now feel much more at ease that everything is aye ok.

Still feel like a bit of a goose though.

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