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Lenny Kaye & Friends / Tammy Faye Starlite

Saturday, December 14, 2024 @ 8:00pm



Outpost In The Burbs
40 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042

Lenny Kaye will celebrate his diamond anniversary (60 years) by playing songs from throughout his career, read from his written work, and tell stories that illuminate each of his eras and collaborations  He will celebrate a lifeline defined by the creative pursuit of music.  There will be a well rounded set covering six decades.

Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, record producer, and writer, and is a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band. He has worked with such artists as Suzanne Vega, Waylon Jennings, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Jessi Colter, Soul Asylum, and many others, as well as curating a body of solo work. His books include "Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll", "Waylon: An Autobiography", and "You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon." His seminal anthology of garage rock, "Nuggets: Original Artifacts from the First Psychedelic Era" is regarded as defining a genre and is currently celebrating its golden anniversary. Kaye was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2021.

It was at a fraternity house at Rutgers, Lenny's alma mater, that he played his first gig in November of 1964 with a local band he'd formed from the New Brunswick area, The Vandals.



Tammy Faye Starlite and her band perform The Rolling Stones’ 1968 opus, “Beggar’s Banquet”, in it’s epic entirety - a cri de coeur for revolution, subversion of societal norms, and some courtesy for the demons within us all.

Tammy Lang a/k/a Tammy Faye Starlite has been come to be one of the brightest stars in the Downtown New York scene.  The always peripatetic Tammy maintains a busy schedule of performances, guest appearances and benefits, not only in Manhattan but around the country with appearances in LA, Palm Springs, Chicago, St Louis, Pittsburgh as well as the farthest reaches of New Jersey and New Hampshire.  She’s been a girl on the go-go since her soap opera days when she was a regular on The Guiding light portraying one of two “wacky maids.”  Allison Janney was the other one.

She later came up with the Tammy Faye Starlite character, a chipper yet bitter country music singer whose reactionary rantings and authentically convincing Partonesque vocals made for sophisticated satire of the highest (or lowest) order.  Her jaw-dropping repertoire included such ersatz country classics as “God Has Lodged A Tenant In My Uterus” and “Did I Shave My Vagina For This,” among other campfire favorites.  Against all odds, the act was accepted not only in New York and LA but also in Nashville where her sold-out performances both scandalized and thrilled club goers.  Her following in Music City grew exponentially to the point where the fire marshal had to be called on at least one occasion. 

In recent times, her startling feats of musical reincarnation she has created a new kind of cabaret. Equally gifted as an actor and singer, Lang deep-dives into the vaults of art-pop-rock-whatever and returns clutching buried treasures. In Nico: Underground-- her bio-show, as it might be called – she brings back the late Velvet Underground icon in all of her fuzzed-out, deadpan glory.  With mentions of Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Jackson Brown, John Cale and Andy Warhol, she animates the character providing both historical context and up to the minute contemporary references. With Cabaret Marianne, Lang salutes Marianne Faithfull one of the great, straight-talking divas of modern pop music, another foreboding yet tragically vulnerable blonde icon of the 1960s.  She pays homage by performing a singular repertoire that is bitingly and world weary while commenting on the continuing downward spiral of the culture. Both portrayals are much more than mere concert tributes; she possesses these real life characters provides with spiky monologues woven between songs that have had audiences alternately laughing and gasping. Nico and Faithfull were woman committed to following their own rocky paths. They stood for a bruising new vision of love and other letdowns. Now, thanks to Lang, they stand before us once again




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