Poison 'Look What The Cat Dragged In' - Inside the 1986 Album w/ Producer Jim Faraci-Interview 2021
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This is a full in bloom interview with producer/engineer
Jim Faraci.
INSIDE THE ALBUM:
Poison
'Look What The Cat Dragged In'
Jim talks about recording Poison's 1986 multi-platinum
debut album, 'Look What The Cat Dragged In.'
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Jim is one of best in the business! Would love to work with him again. Best attitude of any engineer I have ever worked with. He was truly the more of the producer on Cat Dragged In.
You guys should be proud. Your music has stood the test of time. As a kid from the 80s and 90s, you are a piece of our lives. You guys were smart by surrounding yourselves with people like Jim.
Thanks for giving us this great music.
Hey Rikki you guys were my second concert ever. 87 with DLR in Philly. You guys killed it. Thanks for the memories. ✌️👍
Poison was part of the soundtrack to my high school years. My band used to cover talk dirty to me. It was great. Thanks Mr Rockit
Saw yall with Warrant in Nashville at Municipal auditorium in 87 or 88 . I was a little kid 9 years old rocking out harder than any adult in there. A dude was gonna hand me a joint. I didn't know what it was I thought it was a cigarette that smelled funny. But I think my dad told him he'd kick his ass. I'll never forget that night. Do you even remember being there?
I was in Sweet Savage,played the Sunset Strip with Joey,Chris,Lane and Randy. Saw Poison with Matt and C.C. We started in Dallas,played all over America and were in Hollywood in 84/85 before Savage went 4 piece. Saw many great bands. We had great offers, but couldn't agree on contract. Great times,thanks for the mention.
I remember Chris talking about a 5th member in the band. Why did you leave Sweet Savage?
@@fullinbloom They made the decision to move forward as a 4 piece.
@@lanceross3633 Ok. We talked about it briefly during our interview, but I couldn't remember what Chris said. There's a giant interview with Chris coming in the future. I think we talked about 4 hours.
@@fullinbloom You're a great interviewer,I always look forward to listening when I get the notifications.
@@lanceross3633 Thank you, Lance. We should do an interview at some point, and maybe you can add to the Sweet Savage story. If you are up for it, send me your contact info through the website.
I love the interviews, which are organic, congenial and researched. The interviewer is knowledgeable, asks good questions that expresses his sincere interest in the subject and interviewee. I appreciate how the the interviewer gives the other person time to share their thoughts. Great stuff Adam.
Thank you, D.
I agree always great content !!
“#1 Bad Boy”....CC kills that song!
The boys in the back room ----they been a shootin pool........
Kix is from Maryland, my band opened for Steve's solo band funny money. Rikki lived down the street from me.
Howdy!
I was never a Poison fan but their records did have great sound. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of many of these sessions. Just to see the process. It must have been awesome to be a part of the hard rock scene in 80s LA. Love hearing the stories. Thanks again Adam. You do a really good job with these interviews.
Thank you, James.
Great questions, love to hear the story behind the scenes!
So True!! Great Questions
love Jim's transparency and honesty.....be fun to work with!!
I love poison and i am lucky that i got the Swallow this live record on vinyl. That’s a awesome album with unskinny bop, look What the cat dragged in, nothin but a good time, every rose has it’s thorn, Talk dirty to me and a lot of other Nice songs and they are all live.
Thanks ! Just bought it on eBay .
Got the 2 cd set. Love it! Love the bonus studio songs too.
Love this guy's interviews. Knows enough about the gear and the bands/songs and their history to ask the right questions. Amazing stuff.
Thank you and thanks for listening.
@@fullinbloom Quick question, do you record or run a small home studio yourself? You often ask about consoles and preamps/ mics or guitars and those are the things us gear nerds love to hear about. Especially how they relate to iconic records. Keep up the great work!
I love these interviews. Tells how they are made
I Loved Poison,Still Love Listening to Them,Great Memories,Had A Great Time at Every Concert and There Were Alot,Great Video,Thanks For Sharing ,Keep Rockin🤘🖤✌
I'm 44 now but when I was alot younger Def Leppard and Poison were my 2 favorite bands. I learned to play guitar because of CC DeVille. I would put in swallow this live and play to it start to finish. All the banter between songs and even the introduction is all still fresh in my memories...
@@svenben9868 I Always Loved Rikki From Poison..He Has a Cool You Tube Channel,You Should Check it Out...🤘
For the record, Kix wasn't from PA. They're a Maryland band. I played with Steve and Jimmy in Funny Money for 18 years. Nice interview!
Hagerstown ?? I think.
Saw y'all at ZAXX on the 2nd album- totally blew me away! Great show!
@@elbridgewaldrop6813 thanks very much! Miss playing that venue.
Fact. Don’t know where he came up with that info, although all of this stuff was a long time ago.
Correct. Poison was from Mechanicsburg PA
I don't know shit about the production of records, but I was a big fan of a lot of the hard rock and hair bands right in this era. I loved Motley, Ratt, L.A. Guns, Van Halen, The Cult, Dokken, etc. A little later it was Four Horsemen, Corrosion, Lynch Mob, Bulletboys, Love/Hate, Badlands. I find these interviews super interesting. Keep them coming. Cool Channel. Thanks for the content.
AS ALWAYS.. GREAT INTERVIEW! gotta say I've seen Poison live 3x and they play like their lives depend on it! ALWAYS great shows!
Very Cool interview,,Top drawer for sure :)
i never knew that CC was the main songwriter in Poison. Great interview. Some fascinating info here.
You could hear the difference after the first album. I loved Poison's first album and then they started sucking.
Total new level of respect for Poison!
L.A. guns inside the self titled album would be great.
I've already done the interview. I was going to post that one first but he talked about our Poison interview a couple of times during the L.A. Guns interview, so I decided to post Poison first.
@@fullinbloom well that’s great always excellent content and very interesting..
That’s a killer album from start to finish there is not a single bad track on it
@@fullinbloom Thanks...these interviews are great.
@@robintaylor7355 I agree....killer album for sure.
I was in a band at this time, in Canada. We were on the road, and had been hearing about these guys being the next big thing out of LA, and got the CD when it came out. We listened to it on the drive to the next town. We laughed at it. Thought it was terrible. We mocked it and said there was no way it would have any success. We were so wrong.
Thank you so much ! These interviews are truly priceless !
I was lucky enough to meet and hang out with Jim after an evening of seeing UFO at THE COUNTRY CLUB, in 1986. A big group of us went to his very humble house. Curtains for doors and Ratt Gold, Platinum, and etc. Records hanging on the walls, a long with pics of Jim with Ratt. Jim was very nice and humble. It was a surreal and awesome night for me. I was/am a HUGE fan of rock music and musicians
I was fresh off the "boat", from Iowa, just moved to L.A. Thank you Jim, for being such a gracious host. You're so talented!! ROCK ON 😎🥁🎸🎙🔊🎤
Had to subscribe to a lot of you fellow rockers and metal heads. We got to stick together. I will Never forget the nights we would put our flyers over there or their flyers or ours. Boy those were the days. Robert Mirabilio TYRANNY!! Classic Nights!! Never Forget Them!!!
I saw Poison 5 years ago opening for Def Leppard and they were great.
I know I'm late to this one but you have the absolute best site for interviews... love the stories and the insight behind so many of my favorite bands and albums!... thank you!
Never too late. Thank you for listening.
Great interview! Can’t wait to hear the rest!
I always thought "Want Some Need Some" could've been released as a single. Don't know if C.C. got married, but he does have a son.
That one and #1 Bad Boy for sure. That's always been a strong track I thought...
Why wasn't the ballad "I Won't Forget You" a huge hit?
@@dathorndike4908 pretty sure it was
Maybe the best glam metal album ever made. Still sounds awesome today.
My second concert ever was Poison with David Lee Roth in 87 in Philadelphia.
In the D.F.W area by 87 we were already watching early Pantera at Joe's Garage bar in Arlington Tx. Hair bands were Deceased.
I remember listening to this the first time. It sounded like a demo. I knew about demo's because my older brother was in a band.
Jim is great
That was great!! Very entertaining interview! LWTCDI is one of my all time fave rock n roll records from that era. 😁👍🏽👊🏽🔥
Totally Fantastic Interview #InFullBloom #ROCKS
These interviews are great. The stories that make the songs and album are interesting. Thanks Adam
Thanks for listening, Rondell. Glad you dig 'em.
Great interview and love poison, just a fun vibe to their albums.
Ill never have a problem with a band whose general vibe is “talk to dirty to me”, " I want action", "ride the wind" and “nothing but a good time” but could also represent the other side of emotion with something to believe in, every rose, wont forget you and life goes on etc. Miss this whole period of 80s bands.
Saw them live in las vegas a couple of years ago at the joint and it was still a fantastic night, bret held the audience in his hand great front man.
Great interview as always man. I was never a total Poison fan but I’ve seen them a number of times over the succeeding years and they always jam and are fun as hell.
I subbed, fantastic interviews, listened to 2 so far. You ask the questions the fans want to hear, and that makes sense, as you're a fan yourself. Thank you, great job, great interviews!
CC IS FROM BROOKLYN N.Y.
I loved Poison from 1988-1989. They were the Sunset Strip!
That's a pretty short period of time, lol
Total night and day between this interview with Jim and the one with Ric Browde where he basically trashes the band from start to finish.
This kind of shows is more than perfect for me who used to listen only n only metal bands.
I know the 80s hair metal bands weren’t very deep, or Beetles-esc. But the hair metal bands were all about just letting loose, having fun and pissing people off. They were enjoying themselves and making millions. Sometimes you have to just loosen up n have fun in the moment 💯
Awesome interview.
Many Poison cassettes back in the day.
what a nice guy. He sure finds the good in the crazy rock stars he worked with, and that is a welcome relief. Especially if someone ever read Paul, "i hate everyone and no one is as good or smart as me" Stanley's book
C.C. Is High energy sober just imagine what he was with some coke up his nose oh my God nightmare from hell but fun as hell like a whirlwind of a tornado
Just ask Debbie gibson
Another great interview. I've never been a huge Poison fan, but can't deny I dig "Talk Dirty to Me", great catchy song. Me and a buddy of mine were all over the Sunset Strip in 86. As big KISS fans we went there the first time to see Peter Criss' new band "Balls of Fire" play the Whiskey. Though we were both under age, they served us beers lol. So after that, we hit the Whiskey about every other weekend. I remember there was a lot of hot chicks out on Sunset handing out band flyers. A lot of those were for Poison. I even seem to remember that members of the band were out there too doing the same. We debated if the band was chicks or dudes after seeing them lol. Those flyers would be littering Sunset as people just tossed them away. I wish I would have saved some of those, oh well, Hindsight is 20/20. I think we saw Shark Island live at the Whiskey like 4 times. And dudes from RATT, Crue and many of those LA bands would come in there to see other bands play. It was a great time. OK, enough yappin. Keep up the great work man.
Hell yeah, thanks for sharing your story, Bruce!
How did Peter's band sound?
@@VisserBros10 I think over all I was unimpressed. It was so Non-KISS like, ya know? Had a chick signing. She was OK, but it was just kind of weird all around pop stuff. I was able to meet Peter after the show. Very cool. But I think he left the band in a few weeks, if that tells you anything lol.
jim produced an album for my band " mostly holy" around 1992 ! eventually i ended up in a band called staind. id love to run into him someday.
i remember seeing "talk dirty" back in 87 and thinking holy shit these guys have like 12 guys in the band because they did so many wardrobe changes in the video and i couldnt reconize them as i can remember i think theyre the only band to ever do that
also before every video they would have a little 1 minute intro which was pretty cool and most times funny very innovative
poison was great never got the credit they deserve i guess time has proven that
love watching your videos theyre my time machine to my youth
A producer/engineer who isn’t bitter? How is this on FullInBloom? Great interview!
Love the insight to this! Really puts in perspective and yes it is capturing the LA scene at the time. So cool!
Glad you enjoyed it. The first albums from those LA bands always seemed to capture the essence. Thanks for your comment.
Really great interview. Well done
Adam just wanted to say how great it is to hear these interviews about the band's we all grew up with. You do an amazing job and I'm so glad I found this on accident! Does make you feel young again also. I loved Ratt so listening to the interview with beau was incredible as was this one with poison because he worked with ratt also and did an amazing job with poison. Don't let anyone tell you they didn't love hearing these poison songs back then. If the girls loved it which they did that's all that mattered. One thing though that you see with all is their ability to not get along which is a shame. They helped make our youth.
Btw - CC has a son named Vallon DeVille Johannesson (CC's real name is Bruce Johannesson) who I think is about 13-14 yrs old now.
Bruce Johannesson from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn!!! He left for LA early 80’s! Takes a lot of balls to do that as a youngster.
CC always had that NY accent.
This is a great interview!
Poison was one of the greatest of the 80s I felt. I mean they took the look over the top and really pushed all that image stuff. But man it's so 80s and I loved it.. those guys where out trying to get chicks and get high. I respect that.. they really killed the 80s man.. I'm sure they made millions !!!! Love it.. they had the balls to push there look and shit why out there and it worked
People kind of made fun of them but their songs certainly have substance.. every rose, fallen angel, life goes on... they weren't just stupid fluff and "hair".
Nice to hear the KIX Midnight Dynamite mention. I absolutely love that album and played it all the time. The debut album and Midnight Dynamite are their classics for me. They were so unique back then. After that they became like a cross between AC/DC and every other hollywood band. As you said, Midnight Dynamite kind of flew under the radar, but that album slams!
Amen.
As always,just a great fucking interview! Hails from a fellow dfw scene guy.
What a difference on perspective from Jim compared to Ric. In Ric's interview he totally shit over the record.
exactly..
he shit all over the band..almost to the point of absudity...at the end of the day these guys made a ton of money, had more chicks than most rock band, and toured the world....
I don't care love or hate them Poison nothing but a good time.
Love the insight of this
Love or hate them it is cool to listen to this!
Enigma He we come!!!! Kenny was so funny! Sitting in his office. Looking at RATT’s Contract! And Steeler Had a deal. That Ron must of Passed Up!! We ended up Doing Blow instead of Signing! Mo was not to happy!! Funny Time and It was like Yesterday!! John was an awesome Guy from HEAVEN!!
The cat dragged in a few kilos 😂
Living my life sin after sin night roll up and I do it again.. haha classic 80s hair metal.. poison was hair metal
Does anyone think a different album cover would have helped them launch quicker? Ultimately, the songs carried them past that stigma so it is somewhat a moot point. Also, I don't think "Cry Tough" was a strong choice for the first single. I am totally digging these interviews, great job Full In Bloom can't wait to hear more.
Agree with you. Huge Poison fan and I've never liked that cover, or the over the top image. And Cry Tough is a good song, but when you have Talk Dirty To Me, Look What Cat Dragged In and I Won't Forget You, and other hits, it was an odd choice for first single...
I agree... that Kix song Walkin’ Away is great. My favorite song on that record.
Have to say
Kix is from Maryland not from Mechanicsburg pa. Where they’re from is close, they used to play a yearly show for 93.5 kiss fm
Just amazing stuff
14:58 I wonder where all those pics are...how I'd love to see those pics
Here 2023
The album cover messed me up........saw them live and was blown away.......they were very entertaining and just rocked !!
Man ratt had way more to do with the 80s hair band influence than I ever new.. u hear about those guys all the time
They were a huge band. They were just as big as Poison or Motley for awhile. Their first album was their biggest and each album sold a little less. Their first two albums each sold about three million in the U.S.
@@allsystemsgo8678 yeah man they where cool man.. way better than most 80s bands. Including those 2..
Not true. They werent considered top notch to be honest with you, I didnt mind them ,
They were fucking awesome. Liked them better than Poison or Motley
Poison and Kix Are definitely NOT from the same hometown. Kix are from down in Maryland and Poison is from the Harrisburg area. Kix played a lot up here in Harrisburg and were a huge live band.
Love the Sweet Savage references. Joey is my boy.
Love this! Thank you! Only thing missing was what amp/rig cc used! Please keep these coming!
Glad you enjoyed it. Jim didn't remember what kind of amp C.C. used, so I edited that out. He did remember that he used the guitar w/ the dice.
I have an old cassette interview with CC I bought from a guitar magazine back in the day. Haven't heard it in awhile as I don't even have a cassette player anymore, but what I I remember from that cassette is the interview took place around 1986 or so and I *think* it actually took place in his parents house or something, because the family dog at one point starts whimpering in the background and CC pauses the interview and calls out to someone in the house to go let the dog out. lol Anyways, he was being interviewed about the making of the album, talking about the guitar solos on each of the songs and whatnot, and I clearly remember CC saying he actually used a Vox AC30 combo amp - which I believe is what Brian May from Queen always used. I always thought it was weird all the bands back then were using big Marshalls and all he used was a Vox combo amp. lol
Wasn’t he using Crate amps and BC Rich guitars?
@@redleader3394 Those were endorsements he got later on. Jim Faraci confirms in this interview that CC hasn't yet had his BC Rich endorsement yet. I believe CC used a couple of hot-rodded strat or Charvel "parts" guitars on this album that he or someone built. The ones I'm thinking of are images.app.goo.gl/fgXUaq9EPXqScX3Z8 and the other was images.app.goo.gl/ZNm8mEftdiW12BMA7.
@@fullinbloom I remember that guitar from the club days.
Not sure why Kix wasn't bigger. What did it for me was seeing them open for RATT with Britney Fox in '89. Even ZRock didn't really play them all that much.
@@alfiend331 "Midnite Dynamite....their best for sure"
Agree.
I thought "Cry Tough" was an amazing tune but they didn't really hit it big until "Talk Dirty To Me" came out.
Want Some,Need Some.That is All.
How did CC have that huge guitar collection right from the beginning???? Anybody???
endorsement
I really like Poison always have and saw them a bunch will they toured the first album. That being said I know Wagner had his hands full mixing the first album. I believe he claimed to be called in to fix it and he had to fix the timing on the drum tracks and then re assemble everything so he could mix it. I remember listening to it on headphones once it came out and you could hear so stuff but I was into the recording and engineering side of music. I could be wrong but I believe that what I heard
thank you....greT listen
Browde had such a different take on this band/Album…..maybe if he wasn’t so negative he might have produced Open Up
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Great content as always! I love the tech talk. I am confused a little though. Dowde said that there was lawsuits regarding the songwriting credits, including Cry Tough which he said he wrote. However, Jim says it was a pre CC song. Those are conflicting stories, so I wonder what side the truth falls on....
This record proved me wrong. I thought Cry Tough was a weak first song, and along with that video glammed out and the album cover I brushed them off. Then Talk Dirty To Me came out, and blew my mind. I remember going to the record store, and laughing to the worker there that I couldn't believe I was buying the album with them looking like absolute chicks on the cover. lol But the power of music, man. They had the songs to compete with the best of 'em at the time. 🤘
Great album, first time, raw and classic
They played a huge part in the 80s. Colorful. Silly side. Etc.
@@seagullpoet no no no, you are wrong, raw, first time and rock and roll
Tony Faraci kicks Ass as a producer, Poison Megadeth, hell yeah, prob a Blast to hang with too Esp back then, #UpRoxx brother
Jim
Took me a couple decades to appreciate Poison we were "Thrashers " back then, to this day i still never heard this album in it's entirety. I'll possibly check it out .
Saw Cheap Trick open for them in 2018 and i was happy Poison delivered a great concert , back then we hated that Look actually still don't like it .....
But i enjoy Rikki Rockett s Drumming
The thing I remember most from this album release were the huge white posters of the album cover plastered on the walls of JR’s Records!
Sayin’ to myself, whoa, who are these guys??
I can't remember what song but on one of them there is a part where it sounds like a broom stick falling over and always wondered what that was in the back ground that got recorded.
what song is that in? I never noticed that
The first pressing of the album had the Michael Wagner mixes, but all subsequent pressings had Cry Tough remixed by Michael Frondelli. Why was this song changed?
Yeah, he must have had a hand in Stryper's first full length album Soldiers because that's the one Wagener produced; Wagener must have pulled him in on it. I thought I had heard Metallica was recording Master at the studio right next to Stryper in '85.
The band Heaven that Jim mentions did an an amazing cover of Knocking On Heaven’s Door.
I LOVE WALKIN AWAY from Kix. LOVE IT.
Good stuff...subbed
Hard to believe C.C. DeVille was the most musically competent one in the band.
C.C = 33 Deville .....free mazon ...look up who his dad was lol
Any chance to interview somebody about the Flesh N Blood record?
For the record I like Poison and became a fan in the late spring of '87 and I've seen them live 5x. Faraci's interview here is good and he seems to genuinely like the band. If you listen to Ric Browde's interview on this same channel regarding the same record, he basically slams Rikki, Bobby & Bret as being musically incompetent and C.C. being the only competent one. Faraci doesn't say anything like that (or he carefully stayed away from slamming them). Musically, C.C. was always really good and the band's best player and Rikki, Bobby & Bret were o.k. Not everyone will be a music virtuoso and that's o.k., tons of cool bands vary in their musical abilities. Faraci is right on about the women around Poison..they attracted beautiful women.
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I saw Matt in Harrisburg prob 15 years ago or more playing with a blues based band called the syndcats. I do mot believe he was an original member of the band, he just played with them for a year or two. So he did mot just fade into musical obscurity…..however, that is the only project I have ever heard he was a part of. One of the cool things is, anybody that talks about those days has always had nothing but cool things to say about the guy. I think Slash even wrote about him in one of his books.