Ralph Patt's (Vanilla Book) website?

**Jack E Blue** · 03-13-2024, 11:49 PM

Ralph Patt's website has been a great resource for me. I tried to access it today and it's asking for login information. However, there's no information on how to subscribe. If it's now behind a pay wall I'd think they would have some instructions. Anybody know what's going on?

**ragman1** · 03-14-2024, 01:23 AM

The site has closed as far as I know. However, it can be accessed through the Internet Archive. Be patient with it, it sometimes take a short time to load.

Index

**sgosnell** · 03-14-2024, 01:30 PM

Ralph passed on some years ago, but someone seems to have paid to maintain it up to the past few months. I suppose the expense became more than it was worth to his heirs, or whoever was keeping it alive. Maintaining a domain name and website aren't free.

**Jack E Blue** · 03-14-2024, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ragman1

The site has closed as far as I know. However, it can be accessed through the Internet Archive. Be patient with it, it sometimes take a short time to load.

Index

Thanks, Ragman. That works. I hope somebody will maintain this site. I'm not in a position to do it.

**GuyBoden** · 03-15-2024, 08:48 AM

A pdf of Ralph Patt's website is available for file download here for 7 days.

Ralph Patt's Web Pages Pdf file download

**Mick-7** · 03-17-2024, 12:10 PM

Here is another link for the pdf of Ralph Patt's website, for when GuyBodens link expires, along with a Vanilla Real Book by Bob Anderson (with 200 standards)

Vanilla-Patt Real Books

The site is active now, must have only been down temporarily.

**sgcim** · 03-28-2024, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Mick-7

Here is another link for the pdf of Ralph Patt's website, for when GuyBodens link expires, along with a Vanilla Real Book by Bob Anderson (with 200 standards)

Vanilla-Patt Real Books

The site is active now, must have only been down temporarily.

WTH? What am I supposed to do now with my outrage that it was taken off?

**sgosnell** · 03-28-2024, 10:23 PM

It is back! It should be bookmarked by anyone who cares about playing guitar.

**alez** · 04-02-2024, 04:11 PM

I downloaded the whole website years ago including backing tracks and all and put it in a zip file which is 1.58 Gb. PM me for a direct download link to it.

**hartsook** · 05-07-2025, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by alez

I downloaded the whole website years ago including backing tracks and all and put it in a zip file which is 1.58 Gb. PM me for a direct download link to it.

hartsook@gmail.com

**Mick-7** · 05-07-2025, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by alez

I downloaded the whole website years ago including backing tracks and all and put it in a zip file which is 1.58 Gb. PM me for a direct download link to it.

This can be easily accomplished with any download manager.

**alez** · Yesterday, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by Mick-7

This can be easily accomplished with any download manager.

I think it's the only way. 1.58 Gb is not huge BUT the number of files and the links between them is well beyond doing it manually by following every link with a browser. I don't know the exact file count but it's very high, lots of small text files, etc. All very valuable, especially since the links are preserved so you can consult it the way it was meant. I used wget, a handy command line tool.