Ahead of Their Time

Infobox Album |
Name = Ahead of Their Time
Type = Live album
Artist = The Mothers of Invention


Released = March 23 1993
Recorded = October 28 1968
Genre = Jazz fusion, progressive rock, art rock, experimental rock
Length = 67:39
Label = Barking Pumpkin Records
Rhino Records/Warner Bros. Records
Rykodisc
Producer = Frank Zappa
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:euavqjmyojja~T1 link]
Chronology = Frank Zappa
Last album = "Playground Psychotics"
(1992)
This album = "Ahead of Their Time"
(1993)
Next album = "The Yellow Shark"
(1993)

"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).

Track listing

#"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

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

References

External links

* [http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Ahead_Of_Their_Time.html Lyrics and information]
* [http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/ahead-of-their-time.html Release details]