When I talked to Rod Argent about The Zombies tour, playing the whole of its legendary “Odessey and Oracle” album in the U.S. for the first time this fall, I asked him about how the two main vocalists, Colin Blunstone and he, both at age 70, still can maintain the same kind of voices from that 1967 album that included “Time of the Season,” as they do on their new album “Still Got That Hunger,” which comes out Friday.
“One of the things is that when you get older, you can keep your chops and you can improve them in many ways, but you have to work at it,” Argent said. “When you’re 18, you don’t have to work at it so much. It’s like anything else. The voice is a muscle.
“I mean, there will come a point probably when you’re past that critical point and, in spite of anything you do, it will start to go down a bit,” he added. “But look at Tony Bennett. He’s singing great. He’s made a great album in the last couple of years and he’s 89 or something.
“So I’d like to think that we’ve still got a few years.”
The Zombies play the Lincoln Theatre in D.C. Thursday. The rest of the interview can be found here.