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/
Thanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!