Bad Company – Can't Get Enough: A Tribute To Bad Company

The Discogs page for Mick Ralphs features a photo of him with his white Fender Esquire, distinguished by its black pickguard and maple neck and fretboard.

In 2001, Ralphs mentioned having a 1957 Fender Esquire in Vintage Guitar interview.

I’ve got an old Fender ’57 Esquire I used to play all the time, then I stopped playing it and I had it hanging around. When I started playing it again I realized it’s a really great guitar.

He elaborated on the guitar in 2013 Music Radar interview.

"This is my old '57 Esquire, which I've had for years and years. I love it to bits. I found it in a shop in LA for $75 or something like that, during the Mott days. But somebody had put a humbucker in the neck position, so when I got it home I took that out and put a plain Fender Esquire plate in to cover up the hole. A '57 Esquire should have an off-white pickguard, but I've got a black one because I thought it looked cooler, like Jeff Beck or whatever. And I've used that ever since. When I first started working with Paul Rodgers it was just him and me initially, writing songs. I played him Can't Get Enough and I'd written it in an open G tuning, which is quite standard. But he said, 'Well, I like the song, but can you change the key?' So we figured out what key was good for him and it ended up being C, and I thought, 'Bloody hell - how do I do this?' I'd tuned the guitar up really high so the open chord was C. And, of course, I was popping strings. Even now it's quite a tight guitar to play, but it just had a certain ring, a certain sound. I used that on Movin' On and Can't Get Enough particularly.

1954 Custom Shop Stratocaster was used by Ralphs during recording of "The 'Original' Bad Co. Anthology", according to 2001 Vintage Guitar interview.

For my rhythm tracks on all of the songs, I used either a Japanese ’50s reissue Strat or a blond Custom Shop ’54 reissue Strat. I used the Custom Shop Strat for all the slide parts.

Mentioned as a part of his rig in 2023 Vintage Guitar interview.

Ralphs’ classic sound onstage typically came from a Strat plugged into a Roland Boss Chorus (or earlier, an MXR Phase 90 or 100 set a slow speed) and Echoplex with only an occasional use of a wah (“Movin’ On”). In the studio, he harnessed a Morley for the Leslie heard effect on “Bad Company.”

Mentioned as a part of his rig in 2023 Vintage Guitar interview.

Ralphs’ classic sound onstage typically came from a Strat plugged into a Roland Boss Chorus (or earlier, an MXR Phase 90 or 100 set a slow speed) and Echoplex with only an occasional use of a wah (“Movin’ On”). In the studio, he harnessed a Morley for the Leslie heard effect on “Bad Company.”