MARCH 2025 CHALLENGE-RALPH P.

[Ralph P.]

GOING FOR A VERY LOOSE AND RAGGEDY OPEN-G STONES VIBE. I WANTED TO PLAY SLIDE ON THIS, BUT I COULDN’T FIND IT, SO I FAKED IT.
DELIBERATLY LOW-FI PRODUCTION TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A BAR BAND.

Ralph P.

[Garry]

Could’ve fitted nicely on any of the early Stones Vinyls Ralph. Awesome guitar playing and great vibe from start to finish. Rock On! 🤘🎸🤘🥁🤘🎸🤘 All the best! 😎🎸😎

[charjo]

Great rock production, Ralph. You went all Neil Young on us at 1:25.
John

[Guido]

Wow, you rendition made me sing “rock’n roll will never die”! I couldn’t never imagine it was possibile to play a rock piece over that BT, but you did in a wonderful and creative way! I agree with the above comments, you can hear both a Rolling Stones and a Neil Young vibe, very cool and enjoyable! Very well crafted Ralph, and beautifully played!

Guido

[AndréM]

I can hear Neils lead in your piece.
I agree with Guido, couldn’t imagine a rock or blues vibe with this BT.
Very well played man.

AndréM

AndréM

[Michael L]

Hey Ralph, wow, you took this to places I didn’t even imagine! Great rock feel and rhythm. Such a “full band” sound, it really gets the groove going. Lots of fun!

[Alan L]

That rhythm guitar takes this in a whole new direction. Fantastic, you really owned this challenge.

[San Luis Rey]

That’s too cool Ralph! Great original take on this track.

Mike

[Manfred M]

Strolling Bones, what a great title, Ralph. It really has that Stones vibe, but also a good dose of Neil Young, as some other already mentioned. Perhaps you should title it „Strolling Young Bones“

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[JoeD1]

Very fine improv Ralph!

Joe

The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge

[Bill]

Really cool take on this one Ralph. Love the LoFi sound. I just listened to Exile on Main St the other day…

[David H]

Wow, that fricking rocked! Yes on the Neil comments.

[sunjamr]

It’s the distortion that makes it sound so cool. Nice composition, nicely played!

Sunjamr Steve

[Martin W]

Strolling bones😂 great title !you certainly gave this track some lift with that rock lead ,
As mentioned I’m also hearing a stones influence and a sprinkling of Neil young.
Well crafted , it’s interesting to hear the different takes on this track . You took it to another direction.

Martin

[JoLa]

Wow, Ralph, you can play, man!!!
Totally dig the “bar band quality Stones” here except it sounded like an original vinyl from the 70s or something like that! I would have never imagined a classic rock with this track, I guess you played the major C, F, and G chords?

🎸JoLa

[Ralph P.]

Thank You JoLa. I’m glad you liked it. I played C, Bflat, and F (in open G) over the C section, then F and G. All major chords.

The Bflat works because it lays right inside the C minor pentatonic scale.

I played kinda sloppy because I saw the Stones live in 1975 at Cleveland Stadium, and me and my friends spent the whole concert trying to figure out what song they were playing. LOL. Very unpolished and sloppy live. The highlight of the show was that they had Billy Preston on keyboards, and they brought him out front for a few songs and he killed it. Billy and Mick Jagger even did the “bump”.
Tower Of Power was the opening act, then J. Geils Band, and they both rocked.
J. Geils was much better and much tighter than the Stones.

Ralph

Ralph P.

[John H]

Ralph
This brought an immediate SMILE to my face
I love your vibe man-total STONAGE
I totally agree with Charjo on the “Going full Neil Young on us”. That was cool
I need my leather jacket, Ray-Bans and a cold beer bro… the guitar work was fantastic.

Thanks for the inspiration

John

[Bob Utberg]

Excellent vibe Ralph!! Kinda ZZ Top: Blue Jean Blues sped up just a bit maybe? Regardless, wonderful to hear!

Bob U. (aka Bobby Ut)

[JFL]

Nice man, you got the whole band in there. Great riffs and solo! Definitely captured the vibe! Rock on man. Cheers

JFL

[Laurel C]

That rocked Ralph. A different direction for the backing track, who would have thought … but you did. Such a classic vibe.

[Dieter]

Really hot stuff – great.

Dieter

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