DUB ROOM SPECIAL

Starting in 1974 and continuing for nearly a decade, Frank Zappa's annual Halloween concerts were a New York City institution. When the avant-rocker scored a Top 40 hit with Valley Girl in 1982, he skipped that year's Halloween performance and instead chose to premiere a documentary called Frank Zappa's Dub Room at New York's Ritz Theater. The documentary was comprised of two concerts - the 1981 Halloween show at the Palladium, and the December 1974 KCET television special, A Token of His Extreme - as well as animation by claymation artist and longtime Zappa collaborator, Bruce Bickford. RED Distribution