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Starring	Frank Zappa
Genres	Music/Musical

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Frank Zappa - The Dub Room Special

For nearly a decade composer / rock guitarist / musical genius Frank Zappa and his band would descend upon New York City for their annual Halloween Concert. A yearly tradition beginning in 1974, Zappa skipped the concert in 1982 even though he had recently scored his biggest commercial hit with the song Valley Girl. Despite the decision not to tour, Zappa did not disappoint fans that looked forward to their yearly Halloween pilgrimage to New York City. Instead he premiered a 90 minute documentary titled Frank Zappa's Dub Room Special at New York's legendary Ritz Theater. The documentary features two concerts - Zappa's 1981 Halloween show at New York's Palladium and the other from KCET Studios in December 1974 for the TV special 'A Token Of His Extreme'. Paired with performances of Zappa classics such as Stinkfoot, Cosmic Debris, Montana, and Flakes is the animation of Bruce Bickford who collaborated with Zappa on his previous documentary, Baby Shakes.

Starring	Frank Zappa
Studio	EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT
Certificate
Genres	Music/Musical
Language	DVD: English
Released	To Rent: DVD: 17 Oct 2005

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  Frank - great guitarist, no filmaker!
  
  The Zappa Family Trust have finaly started to release some of the video product (as he was so fond of calling it) that Frank worked on throughout the 70's... read more »
  
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  - 20 Oct 2005 at 11:15
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  The Real Deal
  
  This DVD isn't for someone who has vaguely heard of this crazy musician called Frank Zappa. You have to be fairly familiar with him from both the Seventies... read more »
  
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- - CamarilloBrillo
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  - Cheltenham
  - 06 Apr 2009 at 22:39
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  Average!
  
  The 70s footage musically is pretty dreadful. The 80s footage is better, but a full concert would have been so much better. Interspersed with tedious clips in... read more »
  
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- - Haza
  - 19 reviews
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  - 27 Aug 2008 at 21:26
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  Sublime from the Video ?..it' s the best you can get..
  
  ..cos apparently there ain't much more. If you saw the Late Show specials that were made by BBC prior to FZ's death then you will alerady be familiar ... read more »
  
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  For nearly a decade composer / rock guitarist / musical genius Frank Zappa and his band would descend upon New York City for their annual Halloween Concert. A yearly tradition beginning in 1974, Zappa skipped the concert in 1982 even though he had recently scored his biggest commercial hit with the ...