lenny kaye Archive
10 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Onstage, the band was a mix of incongruous elements. The typical American audience member of 1965 wouldn’t have known that Australia had neither zebras nor African drums. And things got ever weirder when the Strangeloves went on television. “We were on Hullabaloo,” Gottehrer recalls. “We were introduced by Sammy Davis Jr.,
09 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… When it’s suggested that the story sounds like a scene straight out of a motion picture, Feldman agrees. “Listen, our whole career has been something out of a movie,” he says. A whirlwind of songwriting followed in the wake of those episodes. “We wrote songs on order for Chubby Checker, Dee
08 Apr 2020
New Yorkers in Sheep’s Clothing: The Strangeloves Story (Part One)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in Record Collector. One evening in late November 2018, Lenny Kaye’s phone rang. The music journalist and (since 1971) guitarist for Patti Smith answered, and on the other end of the line was Todd-o-phonic, the disc jockey at WFMU. Todd told him, “You have to come to
27 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Interviews
I lost count of how many interviews I conducted in 2019. I think the number is right around 175. I enjoyed ever single one of them, but as is typical, a few will go down among my all-time favorites. Here’s a quick roundup of ten of those, with links to the full features (and often
29 Nov 2019
Let’s Talk About ‘Nuggets’ with Lenny Kaye (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … You had moved on by then, right? I only lasted like five or six months at Elektra. And about six months after I was gone and forgotten about it, somebody called me up from there and said, “We have the rights to all these records, these songs. What do we
28 Nov 2019
Let’s Talk About ‘Nuggets’ with Lenny Kaye (Part One)
On this day of Thanksgiving I’d like to give thanks to Lenny Kaye for creating Nuggets. It’s not hyperbole to assert that Nuggets affected the course of popular music. In its own way, the 2LP set released on Elektra Records in the early ’70s influenced an entire generation of musicians. The compilation curated by Lenny