Dub Room Special

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Dub Room Special
Released 1985
See also: The Dub Room Special! (The Album) A Token Of His Extreme

Players

Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13 KCET Studios, August 1974 Frank Zappa (lead guitar, percussion, vocals) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor sax, flute, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, zil, tambourine, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Chester Thompson (drums) Ruth Underwood (percussion)	Chapters 3, 6, 10, 12 & 14 Halloween, 1981 Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) Ed Mann (percussion, harmonica, vocals) Tommy Mars (keyboards, vocals) Bobby Martin (keyboards, tenor saxophone, vocals) Scott Thunes (bass) Steve Vai (stunt guitar) Chad Wackerman (drums) Ray White (guitar, vocals)
Chapter 8 Compact Video, 1982 Halloween, 1981 players Massimo Bassoli (vocals)

Tracks

1. Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
2. Room Service
3. Nig Biz
4. Approximate
5. Cosmic Debris
6. Cocaine Decisions
7. Montana
8. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
9. Florentine Pogen
10. Stevie's Spanking
11. Stinkfoot
12. Flakes
13. Inca Roads
14. Easy Meat

Bonus

• Valley Girl Documentary by Steve Durgin

Release Notes

• Bruce Bickford: animations

Background Information

The Dub Room Special was a film produced for direct-to-video release in October, 1982. The video combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews.

The video was only available through mail-order, and thus went unseen by many of Zappa's fans until it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005. The DVD version was trimmed slightly by Zappa to fit the space limitations of early laserdiscs. The 1974 footage was originally conceived as a TV special. In 2007 a soundtrack with the same name was released.

Conceptual Continuity

VHS Cover

Versions

ZFT #	Version #	# discs	Format	Catalog #	Release (YYYY-MM-DD)	Barcode (EAN-13)	Artwork	Comment
n/a	1.1 Original Stereo Hi-Fi	1	VHS CS/ BETAMAX	Barking Pumpkin VDUBRS	1984	?	Black Plastic Case	90 min., Stereo Hi-Fi,
	1.2 DVD-Video PCM 2.0 Stereo (short edited)	1	DVD	naïve vision: / Eagle Vision EV 426252	2005	3298494262524	French packaging / Tracy Veal, Creative Portal	DVD 9 Dual Layer, all regions, 4:3 PAL. Matrix # Upper layer: IFPI 9740 manufactured by optimal media production D535751-01 EREDV375 Lower layer: ifpi L573 D535751-01
		1	DVD	Eagle Vision EREDV375	2005-10-17	5034504937574	UK packaging / Tracy Veal, Creative Portal	DVD 9 Dual Layer, all regions, 4:3 PAL.
		1	DVD	Eagle Vision / Eagle Rock EV30138-9	2005-10-18?	0801213013890	US packaging / Tracy Veal, Creative Portal	DVD 9 Dual Layer, regions 1 & 4, 4:3 NTSC.
		1	DVD	VideoArts VABG-1225	2007-01-24	4988112610422		Japanese edition.
		1	DVD	Yamaha Music & Visuals VABG-1239	2007-07-18	4988112610583		Japanese edition.

See Also

• The Dub Room Special! (The Album)
• Official Announcement at Zappa.com
• A Token Of His Extreme