Frank Zappa - The Dub Room Special

This audio companion to Frank Zappa's no-frills made-for-video Dub Room Special (1982) was originally to have been issued on vinyl and presumably cassette some 25 years earlier than its eventual release on CD in 2007. But hey, what's a quarter century, rightNULL The material was gleaned from a Mothers Of Invention in-studio KCET-TV appearance on August 27, 1974 in Los Angeles, as well as a Halloween 1981 show at the Palladium in New York City. In 1974, Zappa's revolving-door Mothers featured Zappa (guitar/vocals), George Duke (keyboards/vocals), Ruth Underwood (vibes/marimba/percussion), Chester Thompson (drums), Tom Fowler (bass), and Napoleon Murphy Brock (vocals/tenor sax). Read More