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
bad company priority
Bad Company is not a priority in his life, and it's always been in my life. When it's not there, I haven't got a lot going for me.
san-francisco los-angeles
I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.
generally good music tend
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.
brilliant range-rover manuals
I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
rocks rock-n-roll action
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
country sort
I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.
guitar piano certain
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
wife widows world
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.
downs life mellow qualified ups
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.
across berry chuck quite work
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.
chuck
One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.
home squares kind
That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
bad chuck
This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.
song writing might
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.