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12.29.02 EPISODE 39: NEW YEARS EVE "This is the time of year people like to sum up what happened. You know, evaluate everything. Make stupid lists and of course tell a bunch of lies about what we're going to do next year."—Little Steven  
12.22.02 EPISODE 38: CHRISTMAS "Somehow "Happy Winter Solstice" just didn't have the right ring to it. So it became "Merry Christmas," baby! Like most things, all based on an ancient religion, you know the pagans and the Zoroastrians and cats like that. But this end of the year time, this Winter Solstice thing, man, is like the superbowl of religious activities. I mean all kinds of action going on. Indigenous people from Native America are celebrating Mother Earth. Scandinavia is celebrating their Earth Mother feasting to ensure abundance in the coming year."—Little Steven
12.15.02 EPISODE 37: DETROIT "You are deep in the Underground Garage. Where we are engaged in a Thanksgiving, a confession, an open acknowledgement that gives thanks to a town that is spiritually and philosophically very much our parent. Although being that the arrogant, iconoclasts Detroiters tend to be, they'd probably disown us anyway as their bastard children. But the DNA sample would test positive, baby!"—Little Steven
12.8.02 EPISODE 36: SOPRANOS "January 1999 and that ridiculous box in the living room known as your television was starting to get interesting. A new dramatic series known as The Sopranos debuted on a cable channel called Home Box Office.... the coolest show on TV also happens to have the coolest music. And we are dedicating the show to it."—Little Steven
12.1.02 EPISODE 35: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE STILL UGLY (REPEAT) "1963, Riverside California.... Rick Brown singing, Steve Whiting on bass. Drummer Rick Moe. They would add a wildman steel guitar player named Glen Campbell (no relation)... Somewhere late ’64 early ’65 they start getting freaky like the Yardbirds.... You know, much more elaborate sound pictures begin to happen, feedback, mid-eastern melody, what would soon be psychedelic but they’re a little ahead of their time and they are not fitting in..... The Misunderstood become the Children of The Sun."—Little Steven
11.24.02 EPISODE 34: IN LIKE FLINT (UPDATED REPEAT) "…Radio. It's really futuristic in that it doesn't show you a bunch of digital pictures and pretty colors the way, you know, most mediums do these days. Insulting your intelligence at every opportunity. It mysteriously engages your mind and stimulates your imagination with nothing but words and music."—Little Steven
11.17.02 EPISODE 33: MARTY SCORSESE "Christmas 1972, Scorsese goes to some friend's house for dinner. There is Time magazine film critic Jay Cox and actress Verna Bloom. Two important things happened here. Jay and Verna introduced Marty to a guy named Bob DeNiro and Verna mentions to her friend John, who was a road manager of a band and wanted to get into movies, that Marty has a script called Season of the Witch…"—Little Steven
11.10.02 EPISODE 32: FRANK BARSALONA "He felt a bands live performance was as important, and maybe more important, than their records. This was unprecedented and totally radical thinking. He was like records, hits, whatever… they'll come. But if a band is great live, they'll have longevity. If they have a hit… then that's icing on the cake. He proved that theory over and over and over again, and helped create the entire rock era." -Little Steven
11.3.02 EPISODE 31: TEXAS "Last picture show. Last detail. Last movie. Last tango in Paris. Last temptation of Christ. Last DJ. Other than a word in a title and a certain obvious fanatic finality…What do they all have in common?" –Little Steven (Listen to find out!)
10.27.02 EPISODE 30: HALLOWEEN "Halloween is definitely one of the coolest holidays. I mean, these cats in Ireland called the Celts started the whole thing 800 years before Christ…They celebrated the end of summer, October 31st. It was their New Years' party. The Celts called it Samhain. They believed life and death came together at this time. All laws of time and space were suspended allowing the spirit world to interact with the living. Oh yeah!"—Little Steven
10.20.02 EPISODE 29: BARBARELLA IN BOSTON (REPEAT) "And the Sex Pistols ended the set. One of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands ever, in my opinion, making one of the greatest rock albums ever. I hope you caught their reunion in 1996. It was fantastic. I went backstage and begged them to stay together and they laughed at me."—Little Steven
10.13.02 EPISODE 28: 77 SUNSET STRIP (REPEAT) "Ain't nobody going to keep us from living life to its fullest capacity, baby…Give me more freedom, not less. Give me more choices, not less!"—Little Steven
10.6.02 EPISODE 27: MURRAY THE K (REPEAT) "There were no singers until the British Invasion. Everybody had instrumental bands. The only reason why they had singers in England was because, let's face it, they had nothing else to do. Global warming or no global warming, the sun comes out for about an hour in England. We're talking about once a month. That's why the British Invasion happened…"—Little Steven
9.29.02 EPISODE 26: GROUCHO "Death is no impediment in the Underground Garage. We are not prejudiced about such things. Black, white, Arab, Jews, young, old, straight, gay, artist, scientist, alive, dead—we don't care. A member of the family is a member of the family. Everybody is equal in the Garage."—Little Steven
9.22.02 EPISODE 25: HARD DAY'S NIGHT "Just in case you thought your band was popular, girls screamed and cried throughout the movie [A Hard Day's Night] and during the film would occasionally run down the aisles and physically attack the screen. I kid you, not."—Little Steven
9.15.02 EPISODE 24: MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE "Now, Question Mark says he's from Mars. You hear that and laugh right? But then you meet the man and then you, I don't know. Have you seen him lately? Go check out Question Mark and the Mysterians. First of all, they are great. It's a great show. He looks exactly the same as he did in 1966. I was six inches away from him. I talked with him for an hour. He looks exactly the same. Consider that before you laugh."—Little Steven
9.8.02 EPISODE 23: BACK TO SCHOOL "…All I know is, I still feel that little twinge of anxiety around this time of year. After all this time, I'm still relieved I don't have to go [to school]. I mean, half the battle is getting up that early. My body was born on rock 'n' roll time. Literally, I was born at 5:30 in the afternoon. I just wake up as night falls."—Little Steven
9.1.02 EPISODE 22: GIRLS OF SUMMER "'Help Me Rhonda,' [Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' main writer] very real cry for help in 1965. [The Beach Boys] stopped touring in winter '64, having suffered from a nervous breakdown. Trying to get three albums out a year and four, five or six singles over the year, man, you know. I don't know how those cats did it in those days."—Little Steven
8.25.02 EPISODE 21: JACK NITZSCHE "Our format here is the coolest rock songs ever recorded. We don't care if they are 50 minutes old or 50 years old, we have no particular interest, respect, or relationship in, for, or with chronological time. Chronological time is something imposed up on us by society to control us. To sure make us stay too busy to realize we're working too hard."—Little Steven
8.18.02 EPISODE 20: BRITISH INVASION "What we do is Garage Rock—all 50 years of it. The direct influence of the bands of the British Invasion remains the single most significant defining characteristic of the entire modern, contemporary garage band movement. The movement began in the late-70's, early-80's…"—Little Steven
8.11.02 EPISODE 19: THE TRIP "The Underground audience is the best. You are the most musically informed, the most enthusiastic and the most loyal. You're the best. I love you, baby. Keep them emails coming."—Little Steven
8.4.02 EPISODE 18: MANHATTAN "I just want Aerosmith's next album to be totally 60's, baby. I am convinced that they can pull it off. This new song ["Girls of Summer"] is 60's, what can I tell ya. The further they get from the 60's, the more 60's they're getting. And the more I love it."—Little Steven
7.28.02 EPISODE 17: CANADA "You ain't dreamin' baby. We are real here. Everything else outside, that’s the bad dream....The eternal dance party knows no time or space. Chronology and Geography do not deter us or divert us from our mission to play the coolest songs ever recorded." —Little Steven
7.21.02 EPISODE 16: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND "We started with the coolest song in the world this week, and this is the only place where you can hear it. From the new album The Rising, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band-"Counting on a Miracle"…Out a week from Tuesday [July 30]. Super Tuesday…Make a statement. Riot at the record store. Peaceful riots. Parties in the parking lots. First record with the entire E-Street Band in 18 years!"-Little Steven
7.14.02 EPISODE 15: PIRATE RADIO "July 20, 1965, Columbia Records released Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," which goes all the way to #2 on the pop charts and with that, in my opinion, the art form of rock was born."—Little Steven
7.7.02 EPISODE 14: JOHNNY COOL "The Beatles' "When I Get Home" from their third album A Hard Day's Night. One of several great songs not included on the American version of the album at the time. The English versions of their albums and the American versions were different until Sgt. Pepper, I believe. Their eighth album…Happy birthday, Ringo. July 7th. You don't look a day over 25, son."—Little Steven
6.30.02 EPISODE 13: BARBARELLA IN BOSTON "And the Sex Pistols ended the set. One of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands ever, in my opinion, making one of the greatest rock albums ever. I hope you caught their reunion in 1996. It was fantastic. I went backstage and begged them to stay together and they laughed at me."—Little Steven
6.23.02 EPISODE 12: 77 SUNSET STRIP "We also are determined to play you the coolest songs ever recorded within our self-imposed limitations. Sometimes that means a cool song that fits in, even though the group may not be garage at all or most of their songs don't fit, ya know. That's all right. What matters is that you get two hours of inspiration, motivation, energy and an energy infusion to help you make it through the next week. That's what counts."—Little Steven
6.16.02 EPISODE 11: MURRAY THE K "There were no singers until the British Invasion. Everybody had instrumental bands. The only reason why they had singers in England was because, let's face it, they had nothing else to do. Global warming or no global warming, the sun comes out for about an hour in England. We're talking about once a month. That's why the British Invasion happened…"—Little Steven
6.9.02 EPISODE 10: BYE BYE BIRDIE "I got to say Ann Margaret has got the sexiest scene in any movie ever in Bye Bye Birdie. This movie is the most PG, clean cut, '50's teenager fantasy movie ever made, right…Anyway, she does this song "How Lovely To Be A Woman," right, and I thought maybe I remembered it being sexy because I was a kid when I saw it, ya know. But I saw it recently and it's still incredible…I don't care if you're fifteen or fifty; this scene is one of the very few totally legitimate reasons to continue to live."—Little Steven
6.2.02 EPISODE 9: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY "All the pioneers in the 50's are important, but as far as garage rock goes, nobody touches Bo Diddley. Bo Diddley's beat alone would do it. He gave the Pretty Things their name."—Little Steven
5.26.02 EPISODE 8: STAR TREK "My father was an actor. By 1969, my father acted like he wanted to kill me, I'll tell you that. We were the generation gap you read about. That was us. What I put that poor guy through. He was an ex-Marine, Republican, and I'm the only freak for 30 miles in any direction. Of course, we reconciled later and became good buddies. But in the Sixties, he was Benny Goodman and I was Moby Grape." —Little Steven
5.19.02 EPISODE 7: HOBOKEN A GO-GO "Most of what you hear with us is the roots of and the influences of what gets played the rest of the time on this station. The point is to take two hours a week to turn you on to something that perhaps you don't know or maybe haven't heard for a while."-Little Steven
5.12.02 EPISODE 6: BIRTH DEATH INFINITY "One cool new song can make my day. My whole week sometimes. I play it over and over and over, just like I did when I was a kid growing up. A cool new song to me is like an essential part of your genetic make up that has been missing and you didn't realize it until you found it. I listen to it constantly until it becomes a part of the fiber of my body, of my consciousness. It makes you feel complete somehow—more whole."—Little Steven
5.5.02 EPISODE 5: OUR MAN FLINT "When things get tough at work or you get bored, or getting tense, you will be transported back to the underground garage. It all will be all right. A smile will come to your face 'cause you know you are not alone, baby. No matter who or what is bugging you, you know you can let it go because you know something they don't. You know what's cool! You have touched the face of God, baby. Right here. You have an All Access pass to the flow of the life energy itself. Taste it anytime you need it. It'll take you anywhere you want to go. Let's take a trip."—Little Steven
4.28.02EPISODE 4: FLOATING CRAP GAME "All lyrics changed in 1965. Actually the whole world changed in 1965. That's when Bob Dylan went from completely changing folk music forever by bringing the rock 'n' roll attitude to it. He completely changed pop music forever by bringing a folk music consciousness to that. And that cosmic confluence of Dylan's lyrics, the Beatles' pop genius, and the Stones' street level, sexy, primitive, garage style, created a new art form called rock." —Little Steven
4.21.02 EPISODE 3: ENTER THE DRAGON "How cool is George Harrison. He's what got me and kept me attached to the Beatles all those years…. How boring life would have been without George Harrison. How pivotal. It would be impossible for me to live without him. Thankfully he's everywhere. All around me, inside me, all the time." —Little Steven
4.14.02 EPISODE 2: THE SEQUEL "The air was actually slick with excitement. Palpable. I could still feel it. Taste it. Dreams get made on nights like this. Real magic. That's how I felt. The headliner ended up having such a profound effect on me…. The show that they did that night would forever be in my Top 5 performances of all time…I never felt the true power, the true potential of live rock 'n' roll until that moment. It was the Rascals." —Little Steven
4.7.02 EPISODE 1: IT'S ALIVE! 
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