Dub Room Special

Dub Room Special

 This "Soundtrack" delivers the goods without the sound effects for Bruce Bickford's animations. This is like a lost live album from the 1974 Zappa band (arguably his best) with 2 songs from the amazing but very different 1982 band. The CD sounds great. Chester Thompson's drum sound on this CD is the drum sound I hear in my head when playing air drums. Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock and George Duke are all amazing musicians being driven by Zappa at the top of his game. Zappa's custom SG guitar sound is just sick. I actually prefer this Inca Roads guitar solo to the one dubbed into this basic track from the Helsinki album to make up the One Size fits All album version. One of the 1982 songs features a guitar duel and lyrical tribute to a young Steve Vai. According to the liner notes this was a FZ master intended for release at one time. There is also some nice liner notes from Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusiante who I believe chickened out before trying out for the 1988 band.