Frank Zappa was fond of cheesy monster movies and sci-fi flicks. He had a record label called Barking Pumpkin and his favorite holiday was Halloween. From 1977 until he stopped performing, Zappa and whatever Mothers of Invention he was touring with at the time, made a stop at New York’s Palladium Theater on 14th Street, the same venue where The Clash’s Paul Simonon smashed up his bass (as seen on the cover of London Calling) and that was reborn as the Palladium nightclub (home of Club MTV) and later NYU student dorms…
 

 
First up, the 1977 show as recorded by radio’s King Biscuit Flower Hour:
 

 
The marathon (nearly four hours) 10/31/1978 show from that year’s Palladium run:
 

 

 
In 1981, MTV did a live simulcast of Zappa’s Halloween show from The Palladium: