LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

This superb set documents the Mothers appearance at the 1968 Schaefer Music Festival, sponsored by the Schaefer Brewing Company and held at the Wollman Skating Rink in New York City's Central Park. In exchange for $4000 and what the contract described as 100% star billing, Zappa and his cohorts played two exhilarating 40-minute sets (at 8pm and 10:30pm), taking in early material, pieces that had yet to be recorded, and some that never would be. It makes its long-awaited return to CD here.