"Making" Series Ed. 7 - Rock 'N' Roll with Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye laying down guitar tracks with Jordan McLean in Kensington, Brooklyn. 2019.

Welcome to the latest edition of our “Making” series, where we speak to artists and others in the public eye about their respective crafts.

The Patti Smith Group (Publicity Photo).

For this edition, we had the privilege of sitting down with Lenny Kaye, who stopped by our place last year to chat with us and to lay down some guitar tracks for our Chief Ambassador, Jordan McLean. Lenny is probably best known as the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group, but you may also know this native New Yorker as a punk pioneer (his seminal anthology of sixties’ garage rock, Nuggets, is widely regarded as having defined the genre) and renowned rock and roll historian.

Lenny Kaye and Patti Smith. Photo by Lynn Goldsmith.

We think you’ll enjoy listening to the wise and wonderful words of Lenny, which we think resonate even more today.

Happy Listening!

For this edition, we had the privilege of sitting down with Lenny Kaye, who stopped by our place last year to chat with us and to lay down some guitar tracks for our Chief Ambassador, Jordan McLean. Lenny is probably best known as the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group, but you may also know this native New Yorker as a punk pioneer (his seminal anthology of sixties’ garage rock, Nuggets, is widely regarded as having defined the genre) and renowned rock and roll historian.