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+Jackson Mills Not much more I can add to it to be honest, maybe I'll make a short one on Slender the eight pages but that's if I can get round to it :)
Frank Zappa "The True Story of 200 Motels".
Frank Zappa °°°°°°°°°°°°°°° The True Story of 200 Motels °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Copyrights reserved to the Autors.
+acoronab Zappa, can't hold back laughing...ok...at least he plays a good narrator... quite logical since he wrote the stuff... but the others come through like a bunch of morons when not doing music
I would like to know how it came to be that Jeff Simmons was allowed to
re-join the Mothers in '73 after walking out on Frank at such a crucial
point in the 200 Motels film timeline. What was THAT conversation like?
+Ah Clem Jeff wasn't fired dude. I don't know why people keep saying that. He walked off before they filmed a single scene. He was somewhat perturbed that Mark Volman had recorded his conversation regarding "comedy music" and played it for Frank. Frank in return wrote what Jeff had said verbatim into the script. Jeff and his girlfriend read it, and she coaxed him to leave the band and fly home. He definitely WAS NOT FIRED. Both Jeff and Frank say that Jeff walked off, I'm not aware of anyone saying otherwise... except for you. If you watched this movie you'd realize that Jeff left shortly after they arrived in London. He left before any taping or editing was done, and he left of his own free will... stop spreading disinformation.
+Ah Clem Most know Frank's stringent rules on drugs & alcohol, but it would have made more sense for him to fire Jeff directly after the movie rather than directly before it and leave himself and the project in a huge bind
+Cedric Harris Where were YOU? Jeff was IN the movie! Frank "tweezed" all of his live action parts out and inserted a cartoon character: "I'm stealing the towels! What can I say about this Elixir?" I saw the World Premier of 200 Motels in Mission Valley, San Diego, Ca.. I once met Jeff in a bar in Bellingham, Washington. He was/is the friend of a friend's friend. I recognized him and sat down at the next bar stool to have a quick chat, so I thought. Many years earlier, I had offered Jeff some of the grapes, which were disguising large bottles of wine that my friends and I were smuggling into a show during a sound check at Peterson Gymnasium @, SDSU. We were L.D.'s with the night off and went to the show early. The Board Engineer, probably Barry Keene, was accommodating, letting us stow the bags at his station and our Wine Smuggling Caper went just fine. Wine and fruit for all our Festival Seating neighbors! Anyway, after exclaiming that he "Loved Grapes!", Jeff inserted his whole head into the bag, mushed it around and came out with grapes, etc., stuck all over his tiny beard. Now, I thought all that stuff was great and that he was a swell guy and all. However, at the bar meeting, Jeff was a sullen, asshole of a man and besides being a drunken bore, he made a point of loudly suggesting that I wanted to suck his dick or something. It was just pathetic. I bought him a beer and just walked away. Maybe I was intruding on his "safe place?" Who cares? I'm sure there were lots of people in that shitty little town to impress."Bidoshka" fucked up the timeline here. Jeff didn't "walk out" on Zappa. He got fired. Not that it concerns me, I'm just setting the record straight here. Probably the best thing, IMHO, Simmons ever contributed to The Mothers was: "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" for the Joe's Garage LP. Zappa bought the rights to that song from Jeff. Although Jeff was a fine bass player and a funny guy, he kept showing up for rehearsals and shows, high. In direct violation of the contract he'd signed with Zappa about not ever doing that. Frank didn't care what people/band members did on their time off, he just wanted them to be "present" during rehearsals and shows. There was allot of stuff to remember and being high doesn't help short term memory.
+John Bidochka I think Frank just had a lot of respect for Jeff. In 69/70 Jeff Simmons was cranking out a bunch of songs and could play bass, guitar, and piano. It would have been amazing if he would have stayed on for the movie, who knows how they might have collaborated in the years following the movie. The interesting thing for me is that Frank excused his pothead persona. As far as I can tell Jeff has always been very vocal about smoking the chronic. There was a Q&A a few years back with Jeff and Scott Thunes. Jeff mentions getting baked a couple times in that alone. Jeff is in "A Day With Frank Zappa" saying "can we get high now" during 71 tour. I could go on... I think that was the whole joke behind the Dummy Up sketch. Anyway, the only reason Frank shared songwriting credit with Simmons is because Frank covered "Wonderful Wino" and changed it slightly. The song is really a Jeff Simmons composition.
Yep. Jeff's Old Lady was the bug in his ear, the Hotel Towels and the "Comedy Music" schtick probably was something she said to him at some point. No doubt she ditched him for a Real Estate Agent when he fell flat on his Seattle Afro as a Solo Act.
+Ah Clem Plus I think his missus was in his ear, as women do, that he could do better on his own and he could make it solo away from Zappa's comedy music
+John Bidochka He had that "Real Music vs. Comedy Music" thing going on with him from the get go. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up is a gem. Jeff didn't have it in him to be in The Mothers. It was just too weird for him. Not that Jeff "Isn't Weird" or anything... I have a couple of friends that know him quite well.
+The Grumpy Old Buggers Just for the record, Simmons is still an asshole. I tried talking to him in a bar in Bellingham, Wa., years back and he was just disgusting and vulgar. I'd met him back in the '70s at a show while I was watching the sound check at a Mothers show in SoCal. As far as I know, he's still quite bitter about being cartooned out of 200 Motels.
+John Bidochka Simmons is one of the very few who shared co writing credits with Frank, so Zappa held him in high esteem. Maybe Jeff crawled his way back, or they worked out their differences. Interesting to find out for sure
+Bill Mike Frank has had the occasional falling out with band members over the years, but Simmons was the only guy I heard Frank let back in... Sal Marquez was fired from the Grand Wazoo band for asking for a per diem... Vinnie Coliauta and Jeff Berlin were supposedly let go in 1980 over a disagreement in salary... Napolean Murphy Brock was removed from the 1984 tour for drug use... but none of those guys came back.
We KNOW Simmons did not want to take part in the film in '71, there is audio of the conversation. What is of interest to me is, how did he get back in Frank's good graces two years later to partake in the late '73 tour and the recording of "Roxy And Elsewhere"? I have never understood why Frank would consent to that.
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