Genesis - Calling All Stations Live 1998 (Katowice, Poland)
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- Genesis performing live at Spodek in Katowice, Poland on January 31st, 1998. From the Calling All Stations tour with Ray Wilson on vocals. Full show.
Setlist:
Land of Confusion
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Calling All Stations
Alien Afternoon
The Carpet Crawlers
There Must Be Some Other Way
Domino
Shipwrecked
Firth of Fifth (instrumental section)
Congo
Home By The Sea
Dancing With the Moonlight Knight
Follow You Follow Me
Supper's Ready
Mama
The Dividing Line
Invisible Touch
Turn It On Again
Throwing It All Away
I Can't Dance
Band lineup:
Mike Rutherford - bass, guitar, vocals
Tony Banks - keyboards, vocals
Ray Wilson - vocals
Anthony Drennan - guitar
Nir Zidkyahu - drums
I still listen to this album on 2019, who else?
Still listening in 2020! :)
Me too!
2020
Doing it today!
Of course .....2020
I think Ray did a great job with these songs! I really like his voice.
Ray was great, Tony and Mike should have kept going with him. CAS has some of their best writing on it. Nir Z is an exceptional drummer.
pvs6464 yes ...
Indeed
@@frankgarnevicus1187
No reason for missing.
Ray plays many of the Genesis-stuff with his own band. Great band, Ali Ferguson is a top- guitarist.
Look for his life performances from "Time and Distance".
That show made me love Genesis
My Goodness! Would everyone just stop with all the comparisons? These are some awfully big boots to fill & I think Ray Wilson does an excellent job. Open up your minds & your ears.....this is some great stuff! Wonderful! Bravo! Good on you, Ray!
Agreed....he's a damn good vocalist trying to save an uninspired and dull Tony Banks and a Mike Rutherford who thinks he can match Steve Hackett....yeah, RIGHT..
The boy is a Beast!
Agreed 100%!
I think Ray does a FANTASTIC job! Is he Peter? No! Is he Phil? No! He is Ray! And together They are STILL GENESIS!
Had Tony and Mike not thought he could do the job of replacing 2 GIANTS the likes of Peter and Phil, they would not have gone through with this project.
Personally, I consider all 3 singers as integral parts of Genesis. Not many other bands have been able to accomplish such a feat!
And now Phil came back for the Last Domino Tour. And even with his health issues GENESIS managed to put on one hell of a concert.
Long live Peter. Long live Phil. Long live Ray. Long live GENESIS!!
He was more than an excellent. Ray made it his own and edgier. That's what made it timeless. I saw Genesis for the last time in 2007 and this was far far less disappointing. I wish I had been across the pond in 1998.
Saw Hackett in 2020. He played for three hours and nobody noticed until the very end. Few concerts have an intermission. We were blown away. Ray would be a welcome addition too in my eyes but he has his own solo career. Love Ray's Song for a Friend album - such a great song too.
The Calling All Stations album deserved a hell of a lot more positive recognition than it has actually gotten to date. It’s a really good collection of Banks/Rutherford material. Had Collins delivered the lead vocals on the album it would have been a huge worldwide hit. Equally, all of the drum parts would, no doubt, have been done differently by Collins, thereby giving it a slightly different feel and more appeal to music “aficionados”. Listening to this over the last 23 years, it has grown on me and I can now see tunes, melodies, subtleties, ideas that surprisingly didn’t jump out at me initially. That was laziness on my part. I really like the album now. Pity there wasn’t a follow up to it. I’m Convinced that this “new band” could have endured for a long time. But, perhaps Mike and Tony just wanted to wait for Phil to return. In my 60th year now I have all of Genesis’ albums, compilations, Archive box sets, live albums. What a magnificent body of work it is! I’ve also got much of Gabriel’s and Hackett’s solo work, some of Phil’s, one of Tony’s and a few of Mike’s. The vast majority of all of it is quality work, with very few duff tracks. Looking forward to the reunion of Banks/Collins/Rutherford/Steurmer later this year. Expensive tickets but I wouldn’t miss it for anything (Covid 19 permitting of course)!
The lack of Phil on drums is what's more telling of the album, more so than vocals. Good effort, but that Rutherford / Collins/ Thompson Live rhythm section made Genesis so great. That's the difference.
If not Phil at least Chester, he was so integrated. This drummer is very good but he is no Collins or Thompson, with respect. Ray is a fantastic musician.
Unfortunately not really being able to crack the US market with the new lead singer is going to hamper their attempts at good strong positive publicity.
Poor old Ray was never really given much of a chance by the North American listeners.
Which in turn probably influenced Banks and Rutherford who by 1998 had already been going around for many decades.
I have to admit listening to this for the first time I was very impressed with Ray Wilson! I particularly liked the acoustic songs!
Fantastic job, Ray. Wish there'd been more... (and this from someone who saw Genesis in '72) :)
I only discovered it in 2024 and I ❤absolutely ❤love it❤
This album was great. Should have done another one with Ray
The Americans did not get it. I note Ray is on tour doing 50 dates in Europe this year. The Germans still appreciate good music.
Underrated brilliance. Still.
Wow, Ray really does have a great voice. Does a great job on 'The Lamb'. Thanks for posting this.
i think he sings Gabriel era material pretty well actually.
+Joe P I agree. Still, this constellation comes off terribly bizarre...
Ray Wilson said once that he actually is a bigger fan of Gabriel than of Collins.
@@felsner1 Bizarre how?
@@bfdmudk Hiring a 27-year-old kid and expect him to fill the shoes of two former (and ageing) legends.
@@felsner1 Well Mr Banks and Mr Rutherford, as sole remaining members, and founding members at that, had every right to decide to 1) continue and 2) whom to include.
Personally I believe they made a mistake in rejecting Mr Thompson's request to join as a member when Mr Collins left, and an even greater mistake in abandoning the new line-up after just one album. (The quality and of singles and outtakes certainly shows the creativity was still there, and Mr Wilson did a splendid job with both new and old material - thus filling those shoes very well indeed.)
But again, their band; their decisions to make. Including the excellent 2007 "Turn it On Again" tour and the utterly cringeworthy 2021/22 "The Last Domino?" tour.
Loving This Gig . Should have done another Album . ; )
Now listening it in 2024
When i bought Calling all stations, was very impress by the new sound singer, deep and loud. The music is Genesis essence as same as begining.
I agree!
Yup.. They should stick to producing another one or two album...
WOW.....Just tripped over this vid.... I'm really disappointed that they canceled the US tour. :( Ray did really well! I would have paid to see this LIVE. Saw Each tour from '81 - '07, and this is GREAT! It's too bad that Mike and Tony didn't want to continue....
As they said in the 'Blues Brothers'..... They can turn goat piss into gasoline! Wish they would get back together for another album.... OR Ray take the swing to write his OWN Genesis future.
PS: I love Phil and his work ...and have no dis on him. He left the band on good terms.
Long live Genesis!
Singing the first few minutes of "Supper's Ready" and then stopping? What a tease.
People are sooo judgemental, he's great!!! He's not Phil or Peter but he's talented and he does an excellent Mama as well as other Genesis tracks. Geez people, see him for what he is, he's not trying to be he's just carrying on in some really big footsteps and I think he's effin amazing!!!! He's damn sexy too!!!! Love ya Ray!!!!
His version of Mama was chilling. That was no adaptation. It was like watching Hackett's drummer sing Blood on the Rooftops.
I think Ray is great, the thin drums is my only beef. Phil definitely missed on drums.
Goose bumps :) Was there.
I look at everything Genesis did between from Nursery Cryme and up to (and including) Duke as gold. Not a big fan of the later stuff, but some of it is for sure listenable. We Can't Dance was a good farewell album, I think. I just couldn't like Calling All Stations, maybe because it didn't have Collins on vocals and drums. Anyway, I think Ray Wilson is a good singer, and he did a good job on the Gabriel songs IMO. He's no Gabriel or Collins, but he does the job, and doesn't seem to be a diva and making the show about him, but making the show what it should be; about Genesis.
Wilson's so good on the Gabriel-era like so many have said before. Carpet Crawlers actually gave me goosebumps. As a huge Gabriel-fan, if there is one song from Genesis I think could be fitted perfectly into a PG-concert it is that one. And man do I wish it could happen.
He's a top singer and front-man. No doubt about it.
Had they continued with this lineup, they'd still be playing today.
Ray Wilson was in the same position that Gary Charone was when Sammy Hagar quit/was fired and the DLR reunion fell through. The fans weren't going to accept anything other than Collins coming back, or possibly even a reunion with Gabriel. It's a shame that this version of Genesis faded even quicker than expected because I would love to have seen them live at least once. They sound pretty good here, particularly on the Calling All Stations material. However, Wilson also does justice to the classic Genesis material as well.
My thoughts exactly.
Another thought: The album is really good, but there was just too much history attached to the “Genesis” name. Tony and Mike should’ve called themselves something else.
This album had ZERO chance of succeeding and it was totally out of the band's control. Pop music had shifted by 1997 to bubble gum pop and boy bands. Genesis' material simply could not fit within that musical landscape. Nobody who listened to the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls was going to possibly understand much less enjoy listening to "Congo" or "Calling All Stations."
Ray Wilson is an incredible vocalist, but he's different from Phil Collins. The shift was quite abrupt, just as it was for Collins when Gabriel left. Unfortunately, Wilson never got the chance to make his imprint on the Genesis sound. Given his talents, it would've been interesting to see which musical direction they could've taken on the next album.
I would also say that it was somewhat similar to Blaze Bayley replacing Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden. Again he was sadly never going to succeed...
Absolutely breathtaking Amazing One of the best stage performances around!
Thanx so much. Best Genesis After Gabriel
love this concert, saw the tour and it was outstanding....Ray is a great singer and the drummer is superb.
Superb vocalist, no question. He added his own style to the Collins songs and was a good fit for the Gabriel songs. Overall, though, Wilson was like a frog in a movie about clams. Banks and Rutherford treated him like sludge.
PinkLaffs right, I go to his gig every year
ofenblase ray is brilliabnt live, to be honest I prefer his solo stuff to genesis these days...
+PinkLaffs I am guessing you have no singing ability at all?
I find it interesting (although Phil and Chester are the reason why I chose drumming as a career) to see Genesis with a stage set up with only one drum set onstage...the first time since the Lamb Tour.
It's actually quite interesting to hear them with Wilson on vocals. I definitely think songs like Calling all Stations would be supremely better with Wilson singing them as opposed to Collins, but obviously Phil's a crucial component in the lineup. This is the kind of thing people are going to be easily critical about but he does a damn good job, even if his sound is very different.
Ray IS the original vocal to Calling all Stations. Phil not Peter ever sang it.
He does a great job on Mama.
I really like CAS. Think it's a great album. First time I have seen the live footage of this tour and very impressed. It's ashame they didn't do another album with Ray.
Great Vocals it would have been great if this line up made more music together
i was lucky i was there that night in Katowice.Poland:)
+rafal zubek I was also in Budapest. :)
"Calling all station" uno de los mejores discos de Genesis...
Nir is a beast. SilvitoArgentina.
Fantastic concert
Congratulations Ray
I think this could have been a further continuation of the third evolution of Genesis. I've seen a lot of bands try to hang on by finding someone who could have sounded more like Phil and Peter, but they didn't. They had a sound of their own. I like Ray Wilson's voice, and he's an execptional frontman. I never felt like I was watching a bare-bones version of Genesis. While I hate many bands who try to continue on as a skeleton of what they used to be, this never had that feel. I would have paid to see this version of Genesis.
Thank you for the upload. Watched this tour live in Cardiff with a few friends. Very underrated line up.
Wow he sang carpet crawlers beautifully! Didn't expect that
He also beautifully sang Carpet Crawlers during the Genesis Revisited Tour with Steve Hackett. I think Ray should've sung more songs on Genesis Revisited II and the tour. :-)
thanks I'll have to check out the GRII tour DVD!
The acoustic part is really excellent too!
Love this band. I wish they had stayed together.
I really liked the Calling all Stations album and it still stands the test of time - I play this more now than Invisible Touch which I never really warmed to in a big way (surely the fast forward button was made for tracks like Land of Confusion and I Can't Dance?) It should also be mentioned that there is some really creative and powerful drumming on Calling all Stations. Overall I felt this album gave the band a renewed edge and dare I say, a renewed vitality, where previously their recorded output had gone a bit 'soft' and 'samey.'
The Album became after several times hearing it, very attractive, infact i really did not understand why the originals pull the plug.
Roy turned out to be a hell of an singer, something Steve Hackett understands too by now, sad wiht some patience this could have been a great line up...
Great Singer! He did a phantastic Job!
I remember buying Calling All Stations when it was released, put it on listened halfway and took it back it the place I bought it saying something was wrong with the CD. Chose another CD and it wasn't CAS. I remember reading a story about Genesis wanting to tour the US after the release of CAS, they were basically told forget about it because there would be no support.
I saw them on this tour. Ray Wilson did a great job. I wish they had carried on.
Thank you for posting 👍
Difficile d'imiter Peter Gabriel, mais aujourd'hui, Ray Wilson a prouvé que, non content d'être un bon compositeur, il est devenu un chanteur hors pair !!! Bravo pour cette carrière, qui grâce à Genesis lui a permis de se faire connaître (peut-être pas assez, en France notamment)
Je ne pense pas que ce pauvre gars, ça se voit sur scène qu'il est perdu et que la sauce ne prend pas, restera gravé dans la mémoire du rock... Bof, bof tout de même. Rien à voir avec les superbes concerts que l'on peut voir sur RUclips de la période 78-81 (meilleure période en live à mon avis).
Nir Zidkyahu - great drummer!
Great show!
The best Genesis vox! King!
Hey, Selling England By the Pound was lovely!
Ray Wilson is SO young there it hurts!
You can hear the crowd sing like in a cue when hearing land of confusion... It is a fans powered concert.... They don't have to work very hard to get the crowd participating... Hoooo ohhh.. Is started even before the second chorus where the backing vocal started singing...
the live production top-notch again here on this tour. Great live sound!
Sounds like an excellent Genesis cover band that features guest appearances by Rutherford and Banks. Ray Wilson is a superb vocalist so no fault should be assessed against him.
Otherwise, it was hard to swallow this as the real Genesis. It was hard enough to swallow it without Phil. The lack of Chester Thompson and Daryl Steurmer just added to the loss. I credit Rutherford and Banks for carrying on but it just was not Genesis.
@@nonnenja2281 Chester actually wanted to take a break from doing big tours all over the world after the 1992 "We Can't Dance" tour and spend some time with his family again. He also didn't play drums on Phil's solo tours in 1994 and 1997.
Brilliant!
Definitely, Ray Wilson was very unlucky. He fell into a broken, almost dead band with the mission to resuscitate the old glorious times of Genesis. That should be very unfair and uncomfortable for anybody. He is not a bad singer, but probably his unique sin is not be Peter or Phil, who were creators and kind of leaders or at least considered at the same level to Banks and Rutherford, capable to discuss to make changes and contribute with ideas to new songs. Far from that, Ray Wilson was just an employee with the assigned task only for singing all the repertory of Genesis and the right to keep silence the rest of the time....the wrong man, in the wrong place, and the wrong time... X'-(
C'est bien triste tout ça. Et bien dommage car je trouve que Ray Wilson est un très bon chanteur.
karakorum2007 I couldn't agree more!!!
karakorum2007 no he was the right man, the other two just thought they would hit high stadiums from day 1 . If they had given it two more albums they would have been up there again - impatience...the album was brilliant
+karakorum2007 Not a bad singer? A superb singer -- one of the very best in the world. They should have brought Nir in as a collaborative member and they should have given it more time. They were really onto something great.
I agree!
It may not be Phil Collins but it is still brilliant!!
Great to see and hear them go unplugged at 54mins.Great to see Banks on the guitar
Ray Wilson is amazing in this show. Now Phil is retiring, it would be good if this line up could reform and do smaller venue shows. They were great together.
First time Tony screwed up in the beginning of The Lamb lies down on Broadway....;-)
Banks and Rutherford should have had the guts to do what another band did in 1989; Chris Squire wasn't into playing as a member of Yes, so the rest of the guys did an album and tour as Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe. If Tony and Mike had done that, with Ray on vocals, making it plain up front that they were playing pre-1975 Genesis material mostly, I'd have gone to see that. Sure, they wouldn't be playing stadiums anymore, but Genesis were never at their best in such a venue.
20-odd years later...welcome, Ray, to the family
Though I'm not familiar with Wilson's work outside of "Calling All Stations" and I'm more familiar with the Collins and Gabriel eras of Genesis, Wilson stepped into some large shoes and he has a solid voice, deep and sort of "smoky" to me. He pulls off older Genesis songs admirably, he;s very reverent in his singing. It would have been nice to hear more from Mr. Wilson as Genesis' frontman.
Ein tolles Konzert!!!
This Genesis Formation give a little different feel and nuance for a change and it is somehow unfortunately underated formation. But still people are after Calling All Station album. It is now under Rare Collections. Ray feels like Peter Gabriel. Feels like Genesis the old days early years.
Me encantó Ray Wilson, una pena que no siguieron con el proyecto.
Though Ray Wilson Done a Brilliant Job, Sings his Songs very well & Adds his own style to Phil's and Peter's Songs. Would love the Calling All Stations Tour to be on DVD. Also wish they had continued on with Ray Wilson, woulda had some great Genesis Albums I think in early 2000's if he stayed on and they didn't disband
This was one of the first shows of the European tour. Compared to most shows a few differences here no son of mine was omitted, and throwing it all away this was one of only a couple shows this was played.
Also the set list listed the order is wrong as I type it went from there must be some other way to congo, so that's everything from domino till congo is not in order, also no alien afternoon so far. Now home by the sea interesting in
most shows on this tour before this Ray talks to the crowd introduces the band etc. Have a few audio bootlegs from this tour is need to check believe have this show, wondering if the full set isn't on this video and since this aired on TV.
Alien afternoon, shipwrecked, domino, firth to firth, invisible touch, throwing it all away, and i can't dance are the songs not on here but listed on the setlist.
One of my favorite albums..!!!
An interesting album. This trio were on their way to something all their own, but Mike decided the latest incarnation of Genesis was over and there was nothing Tony nor Ray could really do.
Not a bad show. Ray Wilson did a good job. He's not Peter or Phil and Phil is not Peter nor is Peter Phil. People "know what they like." Music was still great. Rutherford and Banks are always good.
If you have Heard Mike & the Mechanics you´ll see how near is this Genesis with that band. Anyway, I like this show very much. Nice work guys!
The guy Hackett found on Genesis Revisited sounds better with the old tunes, but nothing can top that Quebecois band, Musical Box, for faux Genesis sound..
This guy is great!!
love u this is great👍👍💕
I think Ray Wilson did a good job, curious what they would have done it had lasted a little longer. Thank you.
Is this video cut? After "There Must Be Some Other Way" they play "Congo", Domino, Shipwrecked and Firth Of Forth are left out^^
Alien Afternoon is also missing
I think Ray sings the Gabriel songs well but the Phil songs don't suit his voice imo. I think Congo, the title track and one other track are brilliant. Thanks for posting mate!
Superb vocals. Too bad they only made one album with this lineup.
Ray Wilson is a real member of Genesis !
I’ve always liked There Must Be Another Way. Great song, especially played loud…
All the contrary, beyond recognition!
Nicely done!!!
Ah ha! There is video from this tour. They should release this.
In a perfect world they would pick up where they left here with this fascinating lineup especially now poor Phil in bad health and go at it with a new album and anniversary touring of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and Foxtrot..
Genial me encanta Ray, lo que pasa que Phill no pudiera cantar las canciones de Ray y viceversa. Son diferentes en todo aspecto. Pero eso no quiere decir que uno sí y el otro no. A disfrutar !!!!
Trae el estilo de Mike & the Mechanics a Genesis, lo cual no es nada de malo, son todos excelentes músicos. Pienso que Gabriel la cagó al irse, los demás estaban dispuestos a hacer lo que fuera que él quisiera. Hacer su música con sesioneros en lugar de con estos grandes músicos fue un error garrafal.
He sure does a nice job on the Gabriel songs. Of course, so did Phil. I think it was a good show.
Why so many people want to front a new Genesis tour, 'cause this knob got to do it.
Banks and Rutherford were also pretty harsh to drummer Nir Zidkyahu as well as Wilson.
What happened with Nir? Wasn't he just for hire as a session musician (unlike Wilson who was supposedly a full member) ?
Ray is very very gifted, I am not sure he was the best Genesis choice, it is hard to fill shoes for Collins. Nevertheless, brilliant. And he integrated fast, i hear Tony and Mike did not treat him with the honors. These two it seems have instrumental for a lot of friction within Genesis, especially Tony. He is a brilliant keyboardist, fantastic, but as a person I am not to sure. First Peter, then Steve and ultimately even Phil. Tony and Mike had a problem Peter was drawing too much attention to himself. But Phil did exactly the same. It was the Genesis of Peter and then the Genesis of Phil, hands down. Steve could not do more solo projects if he wanted to stay in Genesis, but the others all did. Internal politics seem to exist even in the greatest of bands. But GENESIS are legendary and always will be. Thanks for loading this up, great concert.
Even though I like this lineup, I am happy Tony and Mike put it to a close. Otherwise, they would have left the band and I am sure Ray would find people to fill their place. It would then be like YES in 2016, a band with no founding members.
Great lineup. I guess when no one in USA bought concert tickets, they thought it was time to hang up their dancing shoes. They should have stuck with it though
They should have called it quits after Collins left......................
Thanks for this.
Genesis not the same without Phil Collins. Love my favorite band
CAS wasn't a bad album, it was just missing a standout song, a 'Turn it On Again' or 'Return of the Giant Hogweed' - the next album would have been better......
I saw them on this tour and I like the CAS album. Ray Wilson is an excellent singer but they should have gone with David Longdon for this album. If they had, I suspect that with his considerable musical talents and compositional abilities, it would have turned out somewhat different and they'd have done another, probably more adventurous album again after this. We'll never know now though!
A fine "Second Home By The Sea."