On the way home from the movies Sunday night, the conversation on sports talk radio veered toward the National Basketball Association, which immediately prompts me to switch to another station.

"Try FM," my son suggested.

"I wonder which Led Zeppelin song they'll be in the middle of," I countered. We'd been playing this game for years, where you switch to a Pittsburgh "classic rock" station and guess how many songs you'll hear before Page, Plant and the boys come on the air. My son has tried it with his friends, and they get a kick out of it, too. I think the maximum anyone has gotten to is 3 songs.

Anyway, I switched to FM and heard the Beatles playing "Dear Prudence." I was impressed. That's a relatively obscure offering from the Fab Four.

As "Prudence" faded out, the first few chords to the next song started, sounding vaguely familiar. All of a sudden, I started shouting, "That's Moby Grape! 'Motorcycle Irene'! One of the songs Skip Spence wrote before he freaked out and took an ax to the hotel room door!

"Wow!" (Which happens to be the name of the Moby Grape album on which "Irene" appears.)

I realized we must have bee listening to "Little Steven's Underground Garage," a program hosted by guitarist Steve Van Zandt featuring the great music of the mid- to late '60s. Sure enough, after the two-plus minutes of "Irene," Steve took to the microphone, telling us all about the songs he'd just played.

I'd read about the show when it was introduced last year, but had no idea it was on in Pittsburgh (Little Steven probably doesn't play that much Led Zeppelin). But here it is, listed as airing from 10 p.m. to midnight every Sunday on 96.9, WRRK-FM.

Now I know exactly what to listen to when I'm dozing off the night before the start of the work week. That's a good way to go!