LENNY KAYE: RIGHT ON, WRITE ON, RITE ON!
NEW YORK—If anybody’s got a right, it’s Lenny Kaye. As rock’s foremost young (mid ’30’s) historian-cum-performercum-songwriter, the man who brought us Nuggets, Rock Scene’s “Ask Doc Rock,” the cofounder of the Patti Smith Group and the ultra adorable one-year-old Anna Lee Witt, Lenny is currently involved in more projects per month than most music people dare to even dream of.
LENNY KAYE: RIGHT ON, WRITE ON, RITE ON!
The Beat Goes on
NEW YORK—If anybody’s got a right, it’s Lenny Kaye. As rock’s foremost young (mid ’30’s) historian-cum-performercum-songwriter, the man who brought us Nuggets, Rock Scene’s “Ask Doc Rock,” the cofounder of the Patti Smith Group and the ultra adorable one-year-old Anna Lee Witt, Lenny is currently involved in more projects per month than most music people dare to even dream of.
In fact, “Doctor, my dreams have been very strange lately,” were Lenny’s first words to the press. His solo LP on the Giorno Poetry Systems label, I’ve Got A Right, recalls a dreamy, highly textured emotional state, fully feeling and listenable in a classic rock/country/rave-on sense. “The songs that I write, the songs that I sing, they could be hits 10 years ago, or 10 years from now. It’s the emotion behind the song that I’m after...” Lenny Kaye’s musical tastes embrace the width and breadth of eclectic American music; he rocks, he folks, he sings da blooze.