Lenny Kaye is one of rock ’n’ roll’s national treasures. Lenny Kaye was the kind of cool, level-headed rock ‘n’ roll maven who was both important to and part of our history. Lenny Kaye was the kind of cool, level-headed rock ‘n’ roll maven who was both important to and part of our history. In 2022, Kaye’s book “Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock ‘n’ Roll” was published. But that means I have to go into the file cabinet and be shocked by some of my early attempts at explicating rock ‘n’ roll .