27-560: Lenny Kaye ( né Kusikoff ; born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer, and writer, notable for his work with the Patti Smith Group, his contributions to music magazines, and his garage rock retrospective anthology Nuggets . Kaye was born to Jewish parents in the Washington Heights area of Upper Manhattan , New York City. His father changed the family name from Kusikoff to Kaye when Lenny
54-471: A Grammy as "Record of the Year". In 1995, he reunited with Patti Smith and has been a part of her band since, creating six studio albums, a retrospective, and celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Horses . He has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards in the liner notes category for boxed sets on the 1960s folk revival of Bleecker & MacDougal , the white blues band Crossroads, and
81-850: A division of Starday Records in Nashville ; it was released in March 1966. It garnered a Newcomer Pick of the Week from Cashbox ("A rhythmic bluesy folk-rocker with a pulsating beat") and was issued in the UK and Australia. Kaye's group at the time, The Zoo, played the college circuit in New York and Pennsylvania , an experience captured on Live 1966 , an album released by Norton Records . He began writing for Jazz & Pop magazine, and later for Fusion , Crawdaddy , Melody Maker , Creem and Rolling Stone . He became music editor for Cavalier ,
108-767: A men's magazine, where he also wrote a monthly column until 1975. He served as the New York correspondent for Disc , a British weekly publication. He edited Rock Scene and Hit Parader . While working at a record store on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village , Kaye met poet and vocalist Patti Smith . On February 10, 1971, he backed her at a reading at St. Mark's Church on East 10th Street, opening for Gerard Malanga . They resumed performing in November 1973, and Kaye produced Smith's debut single, "Hey Joe/Piss Factory", and performed as part of her group throughout
135-594: A second memoir, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973, continuing his autobiography into his early adulthood in the New York City music and art scene as well as his struggle to kick his drug habit. After working as a musician, Carroll returned to writing full-time in the mid-1980s and began to appear regularly on the spoken-word circuit. Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo . In 1995, Canadian filmmaker John L'Ecuyer adapted "Curtis's Charm",
162-548: A short story from Carroll's 1993 book Fear of Dreaming , into the film Curtis's Charm . In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since overcoming his heroin addiction, Carroll formed Amsterdam, a new wave / punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith , with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City, along with Robert Mapplethorpe . The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums - he had previously been in hard rock band, Estus), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars). He performed
189-1005: A spoken word piece with the Patti Smith Group in San Diego when the support band dropped out at the last moment. They changed their name to The Jim Carroll Band and were able to secure a recording contract with Atlantic Records with the support of the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards . Their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy , was originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records . The album featured contributions from Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys . Later albums were Dry Dreams (1982) and I Write Your Name (1983), both with contributions from Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez (guitar). Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed , Blue Öyster Cult , Boz Scaggs , Ray Manzarek of The Doors , Pearl Jam , Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid . Carroll raps on
216-508: Is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in
243-461: Is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote a man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over
270-656: The R.E.M. songs "Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter" and "Blue", which appear on the band's 2011 album Collapse into Now . In mid-February 2018, Kaye took over the night shift on Underground Garage , replacing Richard Manitoba . "Crazy Like a Fox" b/w "Shock Me" (as Link Cromwell; Hollywood Records, 1966) I've Got a Right (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1984) "Child Bride" b/w "The Tracks of My Tears" (Mer Records, 1980) Daddy Rockin Strong: A Tribute to Nolan Strong & The Diablos (The Wind / Norton Records, 2010); track: "I Wanna Know" Birth name A birth name
297-456: The e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,
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#1732779706294324-488: The 1970s, contributing to four of Smith's albums: Horses (1975), Radio Ethiopia (1976), Easter (1978), and Wave (1979). Kaye authored a 1972 anthology of garage rock during the 1960s, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 . With David Dalton, he co-authored the book Rock 100 , a 1977 overview of leading rock stars from the 1950s into the 1970s. Following
351-740: The Jim Carroll Band. James Dennis Carroll was born on August 1, 1949 to a working-class family of Irish descent , and grew up in New York City 's Lower East Side . When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan . He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem , but was soon awarded a scholarship to
378-524: The Patti Smith Group's final performance, for the time being, in September 1979, Kaye joined Jim Carroll and his band and fronted his own group, Lenny Kaye Connection. Over the years he has worked in studio capacities with Carroll, R.E.M. , James , Soul Asylum , Kristin Hersh , and Allen Ginsberg . He coproduced Suzanne Vega 's first two albums and her 1987 hit single, " Luka ", which was nominated for
405-664: The Rancid song "Junkie Man", off 1995's album "...And Out Come The Wolves". The title off the album is derived from the lyric that Carroll wrote and performed while in the studio. The Jim Caroll Band released a single, "People Who Died", from their debut album, which made it to No. 103 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The song's title was based on a poem by Ted Berrigan . "People Who Died" has continued to be used in other media and covered by other musicians. The first known use of "People Who Died" in film or television
432-785: The age of 15. His personal collection of fanzines later formed the foundation of the Lenny Kaye Science Fiction Fanzine Library at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida . In 1967, he graduated from Rutgers University , where he majored in American history. During college he had begun playing in bands, on a college mixer and fraternity circuit. His first gig was with the Vandals at Alpha Sigma Phi on November 7, 1964. Kaye's uncle
459-523: The attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967. Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, and Poetry the following year. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol . At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as
486-605: The co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies , was published in 1973. In 1978, Carroll published The Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical book concerning his life as a teenager in New York City's hard drug culture . Diaries is an edited collection of the diaries he kept during his high school years; it details his sexual experiences, his high school basketball career, and his addiction to heroin. In 1987, Carroll wrote
513-726: The elite Trinity School . He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968. Carroll was a basketball star in high school, but also developed an addiction to heroin . He financed his drug habit by engaging in prostitution in the vicinity of 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. Carroll briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University . He dated Patti Smith . Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke , Frank O'Hara , John Ashbery , James Schuyler , Allen Ginsberg , and William S. Burroughs as influences on his artistic career. While still in high school, Carroll published his first collection of poems, Organic Trains. Already attracting
540-405: The normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né
567-633: The progressive rock band Elektrock. His book You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon , about the romantic singers of the 1930s, was published in 2004. In 2010, Kaye contributed a solo recording for Daddy Rockin' Strong: A Tribute to Nolan Strong and the Diablos , released by The Wind/ Norton Records . Kaye recorded a version of "I Wanna Know", a 1950s rhythm and blues ballad. He appeared on and wrote one song for The Fleshtones 2011 album Brooklyn Sound Solution , released by Yep Roc . He appeared on
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#1732779706294594-548: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . Jim Carroll James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries , which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with
621-407: Was also covered by UK rock band The Wildhearts for their 2009 ¡Chutzpah! Jnr EP, and in 2019 on a remastered, extended, re-release of their ¡Chutzpah! album. Against Me! released a version in 2018. Carroll became sober in the 1970s. After moving to California, he met Rosemary Klemfuss; the couple married in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce, but the two remained friends. Carroll died of
648-502: Was featured in the 2015 episode "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" in Season 1 of Mr. Robot and in the end credits of the 2022 episode "Everything Is Bellmore" of Season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel . The song was covered by John Cale for the 1995 film Antarctica and issued on Cale's Antártida soundtrack. The song also was covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise with vocals by Johnny Depp. The song
675-609: Was in Steven Spielberg 's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opening the first scene with dialogue while the boys play Dungeons & Dragons . It was also used in the 1985 film Tuff Turf (which also featured a cameo appearance by the band) and in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries (based on Carroll's autobiography). It was included in 2004's Dawn of the Dead , and 2021's The Suicide Squad . It
702-455: Was one-year old. He grew up in Queens and Brooklyn . He played the accordion, but by the end of the 1950s had dropped the instrument in favor of collecting records. In 1960, his family moved to North Brunswick, New Jersey , where Kaye attended high school . He participated in science fiction fandom and gained experience in writing, publishing his own science fiction fanzine , Obelisk , at
729-420: Was songwriter Larry Kusik , who wrote lyrics to " A Time For Us " and " Speak Softly Love ". Kusik noticed Kaye's lengthening hair and musical commitment, and asked him to sing on a song that he co-wrote with Ritchie Adams ("You Were Mine"). Kaye recorded "Crazy Like A Fox" and its flip side song, "Shock Me", which were released as a 45, issued under the name of Link Cromwell, and leased to Hollywood Records ,
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