The Zombies line-up has changed throughout the decades, however, founding members Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent still have the chops to bring their unique feel-good “baroque-pop” lyrical-prose to audiences aged 8 to 80. Newer members drummer Steve Rodford, guitarist Tom Toomey and bassist Søren Koch flesh out the band with a lusher, wiser, blues-ier sound than the nostalgic mono of their LBG-era Abbey Road-recorded albums. After breaking up in 1968, despite the success of “She’s Not There”, “Tell Her No”, “I Love You”, “I Want You Back Again” (later covered by Tom Petty) and their “sleeper” hit “Time Of The Season”, the group dispersed into various acts (Alan Parsons Project, Argent) with Blunstone and Argent never getting back together in earnest until 2000, then touring sporadically throughout the Aughts. When they finally were inducted into the Hall Of Fame (ironically, on the exact 50th-year anniversary-day of “Time Of The Season” going #1 in America), the band planned a much larger tour to celebrate. Of course 2020 reared its ugly head and Covid made that tour impossible. However, making use of the time off during the pandemic to pen a new album, the Zombies are now able to string together some new songs along with the classics. Blunstone revealed that some of the new songs (“Different Game”, “Merry Go Round” and “You Could Be My Love”) will be backed by the Electric Light Orchestra’s strings section and should be out later this year. Last night’s performance (the second of a two-night stand at The Chapel in the SF Mission District) featured all the major hits, along with some rarities like “Moving On”, “This Will Be Our Year”, and “Care Of Cell 44”, covers of Smokey Robinson’s “You Really Got A Hold On Me” and Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home To Me”, the 2015 single “Edge Of The Rainbow”, the Argent song “Hold Your Head Up” (which Argent explained was about producer Chris White’s wife battling an illness, but the lyrics, “Hold your head up woman!” now seem more a propos because “…it seems like women are going through a hard time right now…”), a medley of 1960s hits during the instrumental bridge of “She’s Not There”, then finally closing the encore with a beautifully melancholic a cappella version of “The Way I Feel Inside”. For septuagenarian rock n roll elder statesmen, The Zombies still want to take you to promised lands, whether you think that season is yesterday, today or tomorrow.