Tonight in the studio we are recording some conversations for the radio show.
One segment will be the first installment of Devil's Music Advocate, which is more or less "Karl Straub for the Defense" of whichever benighted music genre we're dealing with on that episode. Tonight it's Avant Garde music, and my friend and colleague Martin Beam will be on hand to help me take a look at some improvised solos and duets by guitarists Derek Bailey and Eugene Chadbourne and soprano saxophonists Steve Lacy and Evan Parker, as well as Min Xiaofen on the Chinese pipa and Tony Trischka on banjo.
Another segment debuting tonight is Total Ripoff, where I'll discuss the fine line between music plagiarism and music borrowing. We'll look at controversial connections between the music of Led Zeppelin and Muddy Waters, and we'll listen to an early pre-fame interview Muddy did with Alan Lomax that touched on these issues, recorded a couple years before Jimmy Page was born.
If we get to it, we'll also talk about some early B.B. King singles where the master was still getting his sound together, and cranking his amp up to a level of raunch that we don't usually associate with him these days. But we might have to get into B.B. King another night-- I have to sleep sometime.
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