CLONES - I thought I heard one

[A K]

I was listening to my wife's music in the car on the way to work when I couldn't believe what I was hearing - it was ORH coming through my speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOq_1jAGp94
or search "Genesis calling all stations".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOq_1jAGp94

The vocal delivery, lyrical content and unmistakeable vox all seemed to be his.
Was ORH moonlighting with the greats, or was there a clone?

[64Guitars]

That's Scottish singer Ray Wilson. You're right - they do sound similar.

Here he is singing with Steve Hackett.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_P5wP34Bw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZwLXJhzbMs

In the last few seconds of the Firth of Fifth video, it looks like the house engineer faded out the sound while the keyboard player was still playing and, if my lip-reading skills are any good, he says "I'm not finished!!".


Ray Wilson with his own band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4EHuxufGA

[kenny mac]

Yeh mr rottenheads definitely a contender for the clone singer award here.
Is that a Fernandez les paul there?

[64Guitars]

Is that a Fernandez les paul there?

Could be. He does use some Fernandes gear.

http://hackettsongs.com/instrument.html

Although, he was getting that kind of sustain long before the Fernandes Sustainer was invented. "Firth of Fifth" from "Selling England by the Pound" was recorded in 1973. I believe he used his 1957 Les Paul Goldtop on that recording. I don't think the Fernandes Sustainer was invented till the mid-1990s.

[kenny mac]

Yeh,I don't think it's the sustainer pic up but going by the headstock Decal it looks like a Fernandez .
Great guitars,think Neil schon from journey had a few.

[bruno]

Wow - that is uncanny :-)

[thetworegs]

 

[Farrell Jackson]

Wow, I'm telling you someone stole ORH's voice! He has an identical vocal twin!

Farrell