From there he became the program director of four major market radio stations including K-100 Los Angeles, CKLW Windsor, Ontario, WRKO Boston, and KFRC San Francisco.

Garland created a KFRC promotional titled "Close Encounters", which announced that the station would go silent in order to communicate with extraterrestrials.

At that time, Atlantic was home to Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Genesis, ABBA, Aretha Franklin, Foreigner, The Spinners, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and AC/DC.

[3] After Atlantic Records, Garland moved back to the east coast becoming a founder of MTV Music Television, and VP of programming.

During his time at MTV he was asked to be the DJ voice embedded in the classic hit "We Built This City" by Starship.

He also keynoted the ESPN Sports Radio Convention and was guest lecturer at the Electronic Arts worldwide marketing conference.

Garland received the first of four invitations to appear in a unique internet lecture on the subject of "Sex, Race, and Rock in the USA" in a class taught by Professor Rebecca Sheehan at Australia's prestigious University of Sydney.