Put me on stage and I'm happy.
From Mick Ralphs
Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.
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.
That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
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.
This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.
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.
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.
I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.
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