Lenny Kaye

Lenny Kaye (born 27 December 1946 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) from 1975 until its dissolution in 1979 guitarist and composer of the Patti Smith Group.

In February 1971 he accompanied Patti Smith at one of her lectures with the guitar. They were later reinforced by Richard Sohl ( piano) and Ivan Kral (guitar) and played regularly in and around New York. It was in 1972 when the editor of the records compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 one of the first authors who used the word punk rock and is considered one of the founders of modern ( punk ) rock. The author Steven Lee Beeber, chronicler of the Jewish roots of the New York punk rock, Kaye referred in his anthology The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's, as the "creator of the Ten Commandments of punk ".

In the 1980s he had his own band, the Lenny Kaye Connection. He produced, among others, the first two albums by Suzanne Vega, and the sampler Rubaiyat.

He is co -author of the autobiography of Waylon Jennings.