Episode description

Juan Croucier is musician and music producer, best known as the bassist for Ratt. He also played on some early Dokken songs and was briefly in Quiet Riot. Ratt has a new box set available with their 5 albums from the Atlantic years.  We discuss the box set, the songwriting process, an unreleased song, touring issues and much more!

0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:07 - Doing Interviews
0:03:03 - Concert History & Promoters
0:05:38 - Detonator Tour
0:08:13 - Music Business & Success
0:14:47 - Early Music Years
0:20:35 - Ratt Box Set & Re-Mastering
0:27:00 - Band Dynamics & Psychology
0:33:00 - Juan's Role with Songwriting
0:38:35 - The First Record & Producer Choice
0:42:18 - Unreleased Song Wishing Well
0:48:13 - Juan's Songwriting Habit
0:55:02 - Predicting a Hit Song
0:58:10 - Making the Detonator Album
1:02:15 - Having Discipline & Setting Limits
1:09:40 - Producing Bands & Liquid Sunday
1:14:15 - Make a Wish Foundation
1:17:09 - Outro

📸 picture by Robert Cavuoto

Ratt Box Set:
https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Years-Ratt/dp/B0BZXGTYC6

Juan Croucier website:
http://www.juancroucier.com/main.html

Make a Wish Foundation website:
https://wish.org/

Chuck Shute website:
https://www.chuckshute.com/

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