Article: Guitarist/actor Steve Van Zandt turns to radio with `Garage'.

Byline: Nick Cristiano

For Steven Van Zandt, the reason to start his own radio show was simple.

"Most of my favorite things, I'm not hearing" on the air, said the trusted sidekick to both Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano. And "I consider them to be ... very important as far as representing the tradition and history of rock and roll."

They're not the horn-fired rhythm-and-blues Van Zandt created for Southside Johnny, or the anthems he cranks out in the E Street Band, or even the soul, funk and hard rock he's fashioned in his solo career.

Rather, they are garage-rock, the primitive, attitude-heavy subgenre that, at its best, serves as ...

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