‘Music belongs to the moment’: Patti Smith’s guitarist Lenny Kaye is ‘Goin’ Local’

Lenny Kaye has been Patti Smith’s guitarist since their early days, when he was a rock critic, and she was doing poetry readings. Bob Gruen
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Bob Gruen
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Lenny Kaye has been Patti Smith‘s guitarist since the early days, when he was a rock critic, and she was doing poetry readings. It all started in 1971, he says: “I went over to the loft where she was living with Robert Mapplethorpe and