Mick Ralphs
Mick Ralphs
Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Ralphs is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was a founding member of rock bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth31 March 1944
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Chuck Berry just put fours across the shuffle. If you try it, it really works. It's quite amazing, you'd think it wouldn't work but it's great.
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I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.
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I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.
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Because I've always put them down, I generally tend to get music more than I do lyrics... when you get the two together, you've got a good song.
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I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
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I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
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I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.
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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
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Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
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When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.