Zappa DVD

I bought a Zappa DVD : A token of his extreme. It's about 100 minutes material from a 1974 TV special that was taped in 1974 for KETC and partly broadcast. Bad news first, FNM, who released it, is a german publisher who releases licence free material : broadcast, records etc. on a cheap price level. There is no digital mastering, it is just a analog/digital transfer of the tapes and IMHO not even the mastertapes. The overall image quality is average, especially in the clay animation parts;ther are some obvious flaws : out of sync passages, colours slip away. the overall sound quality is good but slighly muddy.

The good news: 1.to see Ruth Underwood play percussion on Inca Roads in a bikini top comes quiet close to my idea of Nirvana.2.This material is rather difficult to get3.the best band you ever heard in your life.

The material is presented in 3 parts:

 1. the actual broadcast from KETC  LA , a 1974 show, named "A Token of His Extreme".  Songs include Inca Roads, FlorentinePogen (both of which were used for the studio versions on One Size FitsAll) Stinkfoot, Cosmik Debris, Montana, pygmy twilite.The images are electrony treated and there are clay animations from Bruce Bickford, the same who made the animations for Baby snakes.

2.Material which comes from the same TV special and was released in 1982 by Zappa with other material as  Dub Room Special These two forms have overlapping footage, but
each has different footage as well.  Approximate, Cosmik Debris, Roomservice. This material has better image and sound quality than the first part.

3.Mainly the same material as the broadcast without the clay animations and the treated images.

Alucard wrote: I bought a Zappa DVD : A token of his extreme. It's about 100 minutes material from a 1974 TV special that was taped in 1974 for KETC and partly broadcast. Bad news first, FNM, who released it, is a german publisher who releases licence free material : broadcast, records etc. on a cheap price level. There is no digital mastering, it is just a analog/digital transfer of the tapes and IMHO not even the mastertapes. The overall image quality is average, especially in the clay animation parts;ther are some obvious flaws : out of sync passages, colours slip away. the overall sound quality is good but slighly muddy. The good news: 1.to see Ruth Underwood play percussion on Inca Roads in a bikini top comes quiet close to my idea of Nirvana.2.This material is rather difficult to get3.the best band you ever heard in your life. The material is presented in 3 parts:  1. the actual broadcast from KETC  LA , a 1974 show, named "A Token of His Extreme".  Songs include Inca Roads, FlorentinePogen (both of which were used for the studio versions on One Size FitsAll) Stinkfoot, Cosmik Debris, Montana, pygmy twilite.The images are electrony treated and there are clay animations from Bruce Bickford, the same who made the animations for Baby snakes. 2.Material which comes from the same TV special and was released in 1982 by Zappa with other material as  Dub Room Special These two forms have overlapping footage, but each has different footage as well.  Approximate, Cosmik Debris, Roomservice. This material has better image and sound quality than the first part. 3.Mainly the same material as the broadcast without the clay animations and the treated images.

I also have this DVD. I LOVE IT! The quality is indeed poor, but as you said very well: the best band you ever heard in your life!

Orgastic!

Parts of this performance are also featured on the NEW ZAPPA DVD: The Dub Room Special!

( http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD. asp?cd_id=9719)

The picture quality is so much better!