Ahead of Their Time

Ahead of Their Time is a live album by The Mothers of Invention. It was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England on October 28, 1968, and released in 1993 on CD by Barking Pumpkin, and was subsequently reissued on Rykodisc in 1995.

The first part of the set is a one-off performance of a musical play retrospectively entitled Progress?, and featuring members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Portions of this performance originally found their way on to the Weasels Ripped My Flesh album and the Honker Home Video release of Uncle Meat. Much of the humor and storyline of the play is lost to the casual listener due to primitive recording techniques and the visual nature of some of the performance, necessitating extensive liner notes by Zappa. The remainder of the set is "A fair – not outstanding – 1968 Mothers of Invention rock concert performance" (Frank Zappa – Ahead of Their Time liner notes).

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 References
4 External links

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"Prologue" – 3:07
"Progress?" – 4:44
"Like It or Not" – 2:21
"The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson " – 2:01
"Holding The Group Back" – 2:00
"Holiday in Berlin" – 0:56
"The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage" – 2:55
"Undaunted, the Band Plays On" – 4:34
"Agency Man" – 3:17
"Epilogue" – 1:52
"King Kong" – 8:13
"Help, I'm a Rock" – 1:38
"Transylvania Boogie" – 3:07
"Pound for a Brown" – 6:50
"Sleeping in a Jar" – 2:24
"Let's Make the Water Turn Black" – 1:51
"Harry, You're a Beast" – 0:53
"The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I)" – 0:46
"Oh No" – 3:22
"The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part II)" – 10:36

[edit] Personnel

Frank Zappa
Ian Underwood
Bunk Gardner
Roy Estrada
Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood
Don Preston
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Jimmy Carl Black
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Album review. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.

[edit] External links

v • d • e Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

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