Jeff Simmons - Naked Angels OST. CD. (Fallout - FOCD2036) Originally released on Frank Zappa's legendary Straight label in 1969 as the soundtrack to an obscure B-movie, this hard rocking collection with mainly fuzz-guitar jams and keyboard dominanted workouts,was the first release from future Zappa sideman Jeff Simmons and makes its CD debut here.Largely instrumental, it showcases his superb guitar skills to memorable effect, and will delight collectors of rare soundtracks, biker rock fans and Zappa completists alike.

Jeff Simmons - Naked Angels & Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up. Dble CD. (World In Sound Records - WIS-1035/36) This 2CD set presents the Straight label years of Zappa´s multi-talented "sideman", Jeff Simmons. In 1968 in Seattle Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa was in the audience after his sound check, and was listening to "Easy Chair", Jeff´s group. Fascinated by his talent, he was signed for Straight records. Both albums, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" and "Naked Angels" were recorded in 1969.CD #1 The Lucille album was produced by by Chris Huston (Led Zeppelin II, Undertakers, Young Rascals) and Frank Zappa under the synonym "La Marr Bruister", who wrote the title track, played lead guitar on two tracks and co-wrote "Wonderful Wino". Lucille contains 10 catchy and heavy Blues-Rock and Folk, Jeff is "playing a hard-driven and groovy bass, piano, organ and accordion and singing in a style similar to that of Jack Bruce with Cream. Simmons presented a brace of strong, harmonically sophisticated songs that have some of the explosive, multi-hued impact of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. (Ben Watson, excerpted from Frank Zappa: "The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play")... "No one knows it... not even him... but someday that kid's gonna be a great R&B singer" (Frank Zappa). Jeff was in the Mothers of Invention at the time of 200 Motels, Jeff also played rhythm guitar on Waka/Jawaka and clown about with Frank and George Duke on Roxy & Elsewhere.CD #2 Naked Angels, a soundtrack for a biker movie is a sequence of mostly instrumentals that combine melody and fuzz guitar; heavy, psychedelicate surf-rock. This 2 CD-set presents in a 20p. booklet with all original artwork, lots of memorabilia from Jeff´s vaults (posters, cool photos, linernotes). The music was carefully re-mastered to sound today as fresh as it was 40 years ago, plus 2 bonustracks. Lucille was rated in Mojo Magazine as the 2nd best release on Straight Records.

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