Zombies - Time Of The Season

[Swede]

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[viva la]

1. The Zombies were one of those amazing Brit bands--

that were overshadowed by the Beatles and Stones.
This song is so trippy.

[Wuddles440]

2. A classic!

Thanks for sharing.

[Harker]

3. Rod Argent, keyboards. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Rod Could Play

The organ solos are both quite clever.
I really like the one at the end where he starts pulling middle drawbars making the sound more present & aggressive.
Cool sing. Excellent keyboard part.

[BobTheSubgenius]

5. Rod Argent could REALLY play, and was greatly underappreciated!

In a large poll, his work in Hold Your Head Up was voted to be the best organ solo in the history (to that time) of rock music, which is really something, considering the work of other players.....most notably, Keith Emerson.

Also underappreciated was She's Not There, although his solo on the Rhodes could have been stretched for several more bars, IMO. I thought, and still think, it was years ahead of its time.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. A Couple Things

First, are you sure that's a Rhodes? It's sounds more tingy, like a Wurlitzer. I've had both over the decades, and the Rhodes tonebars are very different sounding than the tines used on a Wurlizer. (BTW: the Wurlitzer I had was from the 50s. The case was not the molded plastic. It was 3/4" press board. Made it really heavy for a 61 note keyboard!)
And, I might have agreed with you on the solo a year ago. Then I heard it isolated. Hearing it that way changed my opinion.

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[BobTheSubgenius]

7. Apparently, it was neither.

Seems that RA played, for the most part, either a B3 or a Hohner Pianet. Matters not at all to me; I still think it a lovely bit of work.

I have little experience with isolated tracks, which I am OK with - I have never found that it enhances my listening experience, and is often the opposite. Occasionally, it has struck me as funny, though. Linda Eastman McCartney comes to mind. Her isolated vocals sounded like she was being fed through some kind of industrial equipment and was not at all happy with it.

I can sure see how it would be very useful, if one was trying to learn a track note-for-note, though. Especially for one such as I with a tin ear. I could play passably well (Grade 5 in the Toronto Conservatory course), but could NOT learn anything but the simplest parts by ear.

I had a friend whose ear was mind-blowing, though. I was taking guitar lessons from him, and dropped off a Leo Kottke record (Greenhouse) for him to be able to hear Bean Time. I thought me might be impressed by it, but he misunderstood and thought I wanted to learn it. He said he
would teach me, but I had picked a fairly difficult song. That finally cemented for me how vast was the difference in our levels of talent. He had some.