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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zappa and Co do impossible things with a PZM microphone!,
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This review is from: The Dub Room Special [DVD] [2008] (DVD)
This is a very nice DVD re-issue of the old Barking Pumpkin tape VDUBRS-V or (B) if you had a Betamax machine, remember we are talking 1982 here and that’s along time ago boys and girls. Back then much like the baby snakes tape, if you lived in Europe it was going to cost you 68$ including shipping to get your hands on this little wonder via mail order. So what’s it like? Well until they get around to issuing the rumored Roxy & Elsewhere DVD this is your only decent opportunity to see the incredibly tight 1974 line up doing their thing! Neatly interwoven with segments from the 1981 Halloween shows, and occasional buffoonery as Zappa and associates do impossible things with a PZM microphone stuck to their heads in an editing suite at a facility called Compact Video, hence the working title The Dub Room Special. Think cheap and highly amusing and you will get the picture, and talking of pictures, the image quality is vastly superior to the old VHS tape, good color saturation and its pin sharp for the 74 footage! The sound however and bearing in mind that the 74 concert is a TV show is every bit as mild as it’s always been. Yes you can live with it for the joy of the performances, just don’t expect it to knock your stereo socks off. Extras include the usual trailers and a very nice short piece called Valley Girl, fill in the blanks for yourself with Moon and FZ expanding on the worthlessness of the valley girl culture. Oh and an all too brief glimpse of FZ interacting with the family. There’s plenty I have omitted here because I am (A) lazy and (B) if you haven’t seen it you are still in for some surprises. It deserves its five stars for nostalgia value and the bargain price. ENJOY!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could have been so much better,
By PygmyTwylyte (Citizen of the world) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Dub Room Special [DVD] [2008] (DVD)
Half of this(the LA TV show)has been circulating in bootlegland for a long time now.The music is fantastic,but on "Dub Room Special",you only get about half of the original show,intercut with a fair-to-middling 1981 FZ and band.Why not just release the original show?Or,even better,release the music on a CD and forego the DVD images-after all,you went to FZ shows for the music,not to look at the band.
A missed opportunity.And the 1973 Roxy shows are no closer to a DVD release!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Dub Room Special,
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This review is from: The Dub Room Special [DVD] [2008] (DVD)
Like all of Zappa's video projects this programme is flawed but contains many moments of brilliance. It was quite hard for many fans to get hold of when originally released in 1982 and became highly sought-after as a result, so the reissue is very welcome.
It's a humbling privilege to see the 1974 band performing, and their sections are the clear highlights here. What we would all like to see is the full performance at KCET released on DVD, preferably without Bruce Bickford's animations and the sound effects that interrupt 'Inca Roads'. The performances of 'Inca Roads' and 'Florentine Pogen' here provided the basic tracks for their album versions on 'One Size Fits All', and if you know that record you'll enjoy seeing footage of the band producing many of the little details heard on it. The 1981 band was capable of extraordinary things, but their clips here are not outstanding for the most part. Two of their tunes here, 'Cocaine Decisions' and 'Nig Biz' are unique to this release; the others have all been released on 'The Torture Never Stops'. Steve Vai gets his time to shine in 'Stevie's Spanking', showing why FZ called him "our little Italian virtuoso", but the cameras miss him playing the big trilling flourish at the end. The cameras apparently also missed the band playing 'Drowning Witch / What's New In Baltimore? / Moggio' that same night, but there we are. All this is linked by largely forgettable footage of FZ mucking around in a dub room / editing suite with (among others), grotesque Italian journalist Massimo Bassoli, who also appears during a short clip shot backstage during the riot at Zappa'a Palermo gig in 1982. Despite the film's faults, if you're a Zappa fan you won't want to be without it.
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