No - not Zombies. It's about what the unconcious mind gets up to. It's one of Hammill's more recurring themes.
This song to me was the high point of the second era Van der Graaf Generator. With Hammill playing rhythm guitar, Jaxson seemed to take affront and fills the song with so much sax that you can hardly hear the guitar! He would have been playing two saxes - taped together so that both mouthpieces were properly positioned and one hand on each set of keys. This was to get the thickness of tone and in order to play simple chords. I've never heard anyone else do this.
No - not Zombies. It's about what the unconcious mind gets up to. It's one of Hammill's more recurring themes.
This song to me was the high point of the second era Van der Graaf Generator. With Hammill playing rhythm guitar, Jaxson seemed to take affront and fills the song with so much sax that you can hardly hear the guitar! He would have been playing two saxes - taped together so that both mouthpieces were properly positioned and one hand on each set of keys. This was to get the thickness of tone and in order to play simple chords. I've never heard anyone else do this.