#TRENTON QUARANTINO TV#Īs 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 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. 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. He called the new program “The Qoolest Quarantine Qollection” and found a host, “Trenton Quarantino,” another of his many alter egos. “I’m thinking everybody’s home, everybody’s trapped at home, let’s give them some extra special content,” Van Zandt says. 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. “Last week, it was Paul McCartney, Bruce was the week before that,” he elaborates. “Keith Richards is coming up, Ray Davies of The Kinks is coming up, Brian Wilson. It makes the conversation a little bit different. 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. “The Qoolest Quarantine Qollection,” a 12-episode series, can be heard on more than 80 radio stations nationwide. 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 episodes can also be heard after they air at. Van Zandt created the Underground Garage in 2002 for a simple reason-real rock and roll had largely disappeared from the airwaves. “I turned on the radio one day and I was ‘Wait a minute, what happened to this or that?,’ he explains. “Even the oldies stations keep changing newer and newer. So he came up with the Underground Garage concept, which he brought to Sirius satellite radio in 2003. Why should our generation be the only generation that had any fun?” “It was a selfish thing, first and foremost,” he said. The Sirius/XM channel has had a noticeable uptick in the last two months. “We’ve got a captive audience and people can listen for free,” Van Zandt says. “They’re hearing the coolest rock and roll records ever made. “There’s a fertile period of time in my mind that I call the renaissance-from 1951 to ’71,” he continues. The greatest music being made was also the most commercial. The last time, there were these cats named Michalangelo and DaVinci hanging around. “Maybe because I’m a huge Blaxploitation fan and that seemed to be uncharacteristically half-realized.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. “That’s my least favorite film of his,” he wrote on Monday. The only Tarantino flick he doesn’t seem to like is 1997’s Jackie Brown. He’s been tweeting in recent days about the brilliance of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Van Zandt will host himself under the moniker “Trenton Quarantino.” It’s a name that speaks to his New Jersey roots, the ongoing quarantine and his love of Quentin Tarantino movies. According to a press release, it will feature ‘”iconic co-hosts” and “classic interviews” with Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Darlene Love, Keith Richards, Ray Davies, David Chase, Ringo Starr, Leslie Gore, Iggy Pop, Peter Wolf and Jack Black. That is why the long-time host of Little Steven’s Underground Garage has just announced plans for a special series of radio shows he’s dubbing The Qoolest Quarantine Qollection that will air on his syndicated terrestrial radio show. Like the rest of us, however, the coronavirus has forced him to make other plans. Steve Van Zandt originally planned on spending 2020 touring the world with Bruce Springsteen and his colleagues in the E Street Band.
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