Just listened to David Longdon in this "big big train" band (very good btw, really like them!) - His voice really is alot like phil collins. i can see why he passed those auditions. Iiked what Ray did with Genesis (rougher vocal tone), but i got to…
Your comments about David are probably spot on. I agree he would have made a better job than Ray on the Phil Collins songs, but then Ray probably made a better job on the Gabriel era songs.
In a few weeks your should be able to download a 23minutes song called the Underfall yard - free! from the bigbigtrain.com web site. This features David, Francis Dunnery and Nick from Spocks Beard. I'm really impress with what I've heard, I'm sure you will be too.