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| From | "Jennifer Leduc" <jenleduc@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Little Steven's Underground Garage on TV ? |
| Date | Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:13:23 -0500 |
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From www.billboard.com :
Van Zandt says he is also looking to expand his syndicated garage-rock show,
"Little Steven's Underground Garage" at radio and TV and possibly even
launch his own record label.
When it launched in April 2002, "Little Steven's Underground Garage" was on
20 radio stations. Now, 112 outlets nationwide broadcast the two-hour
program, which features often obscure tracks by everyone from the Rolling
Stones, the Animals and the Kinks to the Hives, the Ramones and the
Crystals.
Van Zandt says he wants to turn "Underground Garage" into a TV show
resembling the live-performance, late-'60s programs "Hullabaloo" and
"Shindig!"
"I would have live performances by these new bands, as well as some of the
older bands that are still around doing this real garagey rock'n'roll," he
says. "I would show old video clips, I would have interviews with a lot of
interesting people that nobody talks to from the '60s that are very much
around and vital and just being ignored."
He's already had some discussions with VH1 about the project, and plans to
create a pilot for the program over the next year.
The radio show would continue, but Van Zandt is hoping to find a station
that would allow him to try the music played on "Underground Garage" as a
full-fledged, 24-hour-a-day format. "I'm just trying to fight to the point
where at least these new rock'n'roll bands can make a living," says the
guitarist, who also plays mobster Silvio Dante on "The Sopranos."
"I have a bit of celebrity capital at the moment, and these things come and
go and rise and fall," he says. "You decide what you want to spend it on,
and, to me, ['Underground Garage'] was worth my time and my energy. I think
what we're on the verge of is a rebirth of rock'n'roll, nothing short of
that. And all it needs is a little encouragement, and that's what I plan on
spending my time doing."
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