We need to keep the renaissance around for future generations.”Īt the center of Van Zandt’s renaissance is the British Invasion, The Beatles-led English bands that sent American kids-like Van Zandt and Springsteen-into their garages to create the rock and roll that gives the program and channel its name. The last time, there were these cats named Michalangelo and DaVinci hanging around. The greatest music being made was also the most commercial. “There’s a fertile period of time in my mind that I call the renaissance-from 1951 to ’71,” he continues. “They’re hearing the coolest rock and roll records ever made. “We’ve got a captive audience and people can listen for free,” Van Zandt says. The Sirius/XM channel has had a noticeable uptick in the last two months. Why should our generation be the only generation that had any fun?” “It was a selfish thing, first and foremost,” he said. So he came up with the Underground Garage concept, which he brought to Sirius satellite radio in 2003. “Even the oldies stations keep changing newer and newer. “I turned on the radio one day and I was ‘Wait a minute, what happened to this or that?,’ he explains. Van Zandt created the Underground Garage in 2002 for a simple reason-real rock and roll had largely disappeared from the airwaves.
The episodes can also be heard after they air at . Bits and pieces of the shows also turn up during Van Zandt’s daily segments on Little Steven’s Underground Garage Sirius/XM channel 21. “The Qoolest Quarantine Qollection,” a 12-episode series, can be heard on more than 80 radio stations nationwide. So you can have a different conversation than you would with an outsider.” Heard Nationwide We're insiders when it comes to the music business.
It makes the conversation a little bit different. “Keith Richards is coming up, Ray Davies of The Kinks is coming up, Brian Wilson. “Last week, it was Paul McCartney, Bruce was the week before that,” he elaborates. So I thought let’s string all of those shows together “My syndicated show isn’t an interview show, but through the years, the guests would come on every now and then. “I’m thinking everybody’s home, everybody’s trapped at home, let’s give them some extra special content,” Van Zandt says. He called the new program “The Qoolest Quarantine Qollection” and found a host, “Trenton Quarantino,” another of his many alter egos.
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I still think there is some measure of success to be had - if he wants it hard enough to work for it, and his views aren't now so extreme that he goes full Tommy Robinson/David Ike in public.Stuck in his New York apartment, Little Steven Van Zandt decided he’d dig back through the archives of his weekly “Little Steven’s Underground Garage” syndicated radio program and create something special for those who are laboring under the coronavirus quarantine.
I get that he's frustrated by what he sees as the media making up stories about him, but his refusal to do interviews hasn't stopped that - people are still calling him a right-wing racist all over the place anyway, so he might as well ignore the haters and get back out there.
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As well as playing live he needs to do a media blitz, loads of press and radio interviews, appear on whatever TV spots he can get (even if they are not 'prestige' shows), do some in person record signings, and use his social media presence to spread some decent content (such as the lockdown acoustic live sessions Alain posted, or the 'in studio' session Marr did - rather than posting endless obituaries and Sam's photoshop monstrosities). I totally agree that if Moz wants 'Bonfire' to do well (presuming it's coming out), he really needs to come out of hiding, buckle down, and work like hell to promote it.