zombies Archive
30 Sep 2022
Five Classic Tracks Featuring Bassist Jim Rodford
Let’s Take Five in honor of Jim Rodford… Jim Rodford would have turned 81 in July; sadly, he passed away in January 2018 after a fall down the stairs of […]
25 Sep 2018
Album Review: The Zombies — Greatest Hits
The Zombies have a sterling and well-deserved reputation. That reputation is built primarily on three things: a couple of early singles, a final album of staggering quality, and a latter-day, […]
22 May 2017
The Zombies: A Half-century ‘Odessey’
During 1967’s so-called Summer of Love, the Zombies began recording what would be their defining work, the critically-acclaimed album Odessey and Oracle [sic]. But on its release, the record performed […]
28 Dec 2015
Best of 2015: New Music
2015 has been another year of wonderful musical discoveries for me. Putting the lie to the tired argument that “there’s no good music any more” (oh, shut up), my Top […]
26 Oct 2015
Album Review: The Zombies — Still Got That Hunger
File Next to: The Left Banke, Argent, The Kinks Call them late bloomers if you will. Compared to their fellow British invaders, The Zombies scored relatively few hits in the […]
15 Apr 2014
Zombies Among Us: A Conversation with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… One thing that has changed – somewhat – is Rod Argent‘s keyboard arsenal. “I would only ever use my real [Hammond] C3, a Leslie [rotating speaker], […]
14 Apr 2014
Zombies Among Us: A Conversation with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… “I can’t tell you why [Odessey and Oracle] wasn’t successful when it first came out,” offers Rod Argent, “unless it was the fact that everything was […]
11 Apr 2014
Zombies Among Us: A Conversation with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone (Part One)
The Zombies are among the fondly-remembered cast of characters from the British Invasion (or, as they somewhat more succinctly call it in the UK, the Beat Era). While they certainly […]