[Obviously, the videos in this Track by Track series were all filmed the same day, but for easier indexing, I'm putting them under the dates they were posted.]
Rod: This is, uh, Rod Argent here from the Zombies.
Colin: It's Colin Blunstone from the Zombies, and this is Track by Track at Gibson, and we're on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
"Indication"
Colin: This was still produced by Ken Jones, but I think that there was a period here where 'Indication' was, uh, recorded that you can hear Rod and Chris's songs evolving in a way that was gonna climax with Odessey and Oracle. You know, I've gone back and li- listened to the tracks of that era, and it just sounds as though something's coming, you know? And I- especially with Chris. This song was from that era. We didn't record this at Decca Studios. We recorded-
Rod: Lansdowne.
Colin: Lansdowne, didn't we?
Rod: Yeah.
Colin: Yeah, and of course, there's there big, uh, improvised thing at the end.
Rod: But which Ken was very worried about so he submerged it into the mix and, and, and concentrated on the guitar. This actually came out of the fact that we always used to do a blues song, a Jimmy Reed song called 'Got Me Running, Got Me Hiding, Baby, What You Want Me to Do', um, and strangely at the end, I went into this bizarre thing where I was playing 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', and just all sorts of things were happening, and it used to go down a storm on stage, and we wanted to put a little bit of that into the track, and it is there if you, if you listen for it, but it was submerged a little becau- because they- Ken got a bit worried that this might be too avant garde, but like everybody else, like the Beatles particularly, we were tryna push the boundaries. We were trying to be cutting edge in what we were doing, and this was one of the ways i- in which our feelings were portrayed at that time. We actually were being a little bit experimental, but people got a bit worried about it and sort of held it down a bit, but it is there, and it's become a real favorite with people. I know, uh, Little Steven plays it all the time; he loves this track. Um, and, yeah, I'm, I'm fond of this, and I, I- and the, the B-side of the record as well. 'She Does Everything to Me' [sic]* I was really fond of as well.
Colin: Oh, yes, yes. We've played that a bit live as well.
Rod: It's- yeah, occasionally, yeah.
Colin: But I mean, you know, the thing is this battle with Ken Jones, our producer. He was tryna do the best for us
Rod: Oh, yeah!
Colin: in his opinion, but he was tryna make everything in our- to our mind more ordinary, and he was thinking more commercial, whereas we were trying to make things different, so it's just a- it's two different ways of looking at recording, really, but it was a continual battle for the first two and a half years of our career.
Rod: But it is still nice to go back and, after not hearing these tracks for a long time,
Colin: Mm.
Rod: hear them again, you know, and, and they have more going for them than, than we ever thought at the time, when you go back and say, 'Yeah, I really like that', you know? And I do like 'Indication'.
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*According to the Zombie Heaven liner notes, "She Does Everything for Me" was actually the B-side to "Goin' out of My Head," the Zombies' last single for Decca. The B-side to "Indication" was Colin's "How We Were Before."
