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Infobox musical artist |name = Butch Vig|image =ButchVig2010.jpg|caption = Butch Vig in Madison's Smart Studios recording studio in 2010, recording the Muse song ' Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)|Neutron Star Collision '|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name = Bryan David Vig|alias = Nevermind Man|birth_date = Birth date and age|df=yes|1955|8|2|death_date =|origin = Viroqua, Wisconsin|Viroqua , Wisconsin , United States|U.S. |instrument = Drum kit|Drum s|genre = Rock music|Rock , alternative rock , grunge |occupation = Musician , songwriter , record producer , remix er|years_active = 1978–present|label = Geffen Records|Geffen , A& E Records|A& E , Atlantic Records|Atlantic |associated_acts = Garbage (band)|Garbage , Firetown, Spooner Butch Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an United States|American musician and record producer , best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin -based alternative rock band Garbage (band)|Garbage and the producer of Music recording sales certification|multi-platinum selling album Nevermind by Nirvana (band)|Nirvana .cite episode | series = Behind The Music | serieslink = Behind The Music | title = Garbage: Behind The Music | airdate= 2002-03-31
Now a resident of the Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California|Silverlake district of Los Angeles , Vig had been based in Madison for much of his career, from studying at the University of Wisconsin System|University of Wisconsin , to performing in local bands Spooner and Fire Town, and then to setting up his own recording studio , Smart Studios , in the town.Cite document | publisher = Record Collector | title = Welcome to Spooner Town | date = 1997-02-01 | postscript = inconsistent citations After becoming well known as a producer, he returned to performing with Garbage, who sold 17 million records over a ten-year period. Vig returned to producing full-time once Garbage was put on hiatus.
Vig is married to his second wife, Beth Halper, a former DreamWorks A & R executive, and they have a daughter, Bo Violet.
Life and career
Early life
Butch Vig was born Bryan David Vigorson to Dr. DeVerne and Betty Vigorson, a music teacher, in Viroqua, Wisconsin|Viroqua , Wisconsin . Vig has two siblings, Chris and Lisa.Cite web | url = http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php? ref=/wsj/2005/08/23/0508221222.php | title = Obituaries (Tuesday August 23, 2005) | publisher= Wisconsin State Journal (reproduced on Madison.com)| date = 2005-08-23|accessdate=2009-04-05 | postscript =inconsistent citations Vig acquired the nickname Butch as a child, due to the severe crew cut his father gave him. Vig studied piano for six years. After seeing The Who perform on The Smothers Brothers , he swapped his piano for a $60 drum kit .
Moving to Madison, Vig enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study film direction , where he first met Steve Marker . Vig contributed several soundtrack pieces to low-budget films, including one song on Slumber Party Massacre , a Hollywood B-movie . While in Madison, Vig joined a number of garage pop bands, including Eclipse, and in 1978 formed Spooner with Duke Erikson , Dave Benton, Jeff Walker and Joel Tappero. Spooner founded their own label, Boat Records to issue their own recordings, including their 1979 debut Extended play|EP , "Cruel School", and releases for around twenty local acts.
In 1984, Vig and Marker founded Smart Studios in Madison, while still performing drums in Spooner at night and driving a taxi cab during the day. When Spooner lost momentum, Vig formed a band called First Person with Marker and Phil Davis and a side-project called Fire Town featuring Davis and Erikson. Fire Town quickly became Vig's priority, and after their first album were signed to Atlantic Records . Atlantic hired producer Michael Fondelli to work with Fire Town on their second album. While the sessions did not do well, and the resulting record sank, Vig learned a lot of production techniques from the process. Fire Town split, and Vig reformed Spooner for a final album before Vig's production work became a full-time career for him.
Production career
Vig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced The Smashing Pumpkins ' Gish and Nirvana (band)|Nirvana 's Nevermind . Vig incorporated overdubbing|overdubs and vocal doubletracking, whereas Nirvana's previous album, Bleach (album)|Bleach (produced by Jack Endino ) had a more "lo-fi" sound. Kurt Cobain originally refused to double-track his vocals and guitars but Vig reportedly got him to comply by saying " John Lennon double-tracked". Cobain would later criticize Vig for the album's slickness, although this might be due to Andy Wallace (producer)|Andy Wallace 's mixing of the album.Berkenstadt, J. (1998). Nevermind Nirvana at pg. 96. New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-864775-0 Cobain said that "Butch Vig...recorded the album perfectly," in a 1993 MTV interview. Billy Corgan welcomed Vig's elaborate production on The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream . This album met with great commercial and critical reception, also breaking another indie band into the mainstream. Vig also produced two critically lauded Sonic Youth 's albums, 1992's Dirty (album)|Dirty http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312797,00.html 1992 THE BEST & WORST MUSIC, Entertainment Weekly . and 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star .
Vig worked with Jimmy Eat World on their sixth album, Chase This Light , released in October 2007. He is also working on soundtrack s for two new film|movies . His first production for an English band was 2008's All or Nothing (The Subways album)| All or Nothing by The Subways . He also worked with Tom Gabel of Against Me! on his solo EP, 'Heart Burns'. Shirley Manson , lead singer of Garbage, revealed in a Carson Daly interview that Vig would be producing the 8th studio album by Green Day , 2009's 21st Century Breakdown , which later won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Rock Album . Recently, Vig has been partnered in duties by his engineer and mixer Billy Bush (producer)|Billy Bush who also worked on Garbage's albums and live tours.
Butch Vig composed and produced the soundtrack for the film The Other Side (2010 film)|The Other Side .
In 2009 Vig recorded two new tracks for the long awaited Greatest Hits (Foo Fighters album)|greatest hits release by the Foo Fighters , most notably the single " Wheels (Foo Fighters song)|Wheels " and ultimately produced their April 2011 follow-up, Wasting Light .
In 2010 Vig produced the latest Muse (band)|Muse single, Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) which was featured on the The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (soundtrack) .He has also worked with AFI to produce their first major label album with DreamWorks "Sing the Sorrow."
Garbage
The band has counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units.cite web | url = http://www.homecomingscotland2009.com/media-centre/shirleymanson.html | title = Famous Scots exhibition& nbsp;– Shirley Manson | publisher = homecomingscotland2009.com | accessdate = 28 November 2010 Garbage released a string of increasingly successful single (music)|singles in 1995–1996, including " Stupid Girl (Garbage song)|Stupid Girl " and " Only Happy When It Rains ". Their debut album, Garbage (album)|Garbage , was an Sleeper hit|unexpected smash , selling over 4 million copies and certified music recording sales certification|double platinum in the UK , United States and Australia . Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards .cite press release | title = Version 2.0 press release | publisher = Mushroom Records | date = 1998-03-30 | url = | accessdate = 2008-02-24 | quote =
Garbage (band)|Garbage spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0 , which topped the UK Albums Chart|charts in the UK upon its 1998 release and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Award s, Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Rock Album|Best Rock Album . Version 2.0 went on to match the sales of its predecessor. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing The World Is Not Enough (song)|the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough .cite press release | title = Beautiful Garbage press release | publisher = Mushroom Records | date = 2001-07-27 | url = | accessdate = 2008-02-24 | quote =
Despite being named one of Rolling Stone 's Top 10 Albums of The Year,"" Breaking Up the Girl " Hits magazine trade ad". Retrieved 2008-02-24 Garbage's 2001 third album Beautiful Garbage failed to match the commercial success achieved by its predecessors." Bleed Like Me press release , published by Geffen Records , dated February 21, 2005. Retrieved 2008-02-24 Garbage quietly disbanded in late 2003, but regrouped to complete fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, peaking at a career-high #4 in the U.S.cite book | last= Murphy | first=Peter S. | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor = | others = | title=Absolute Garbage biography | year=2008 | url = | accessdate= 2008-02-24 |edition = | series = | volume = | date = | publisher = | location = | isbn = | oclc = | doi = | pages = | chapter = | chapterurl = The band cut short their concert tour in support of Bleed Like Me announcing an "indefinite hiatus",cite web | url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1510121/20050922/garbage.jhtml | title=Shirley Manson On Garbage Hiatus: 'I'm Burnt, I'm Done, I'm Toast' says singer. | publisher=MTV.com | accessdate=2008-02-24 emphasizing that they had not broken up, but wished to pursue personal interests.cite web | url= http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php? uid=320 | title=Dear worried and confused | publisher=Garbage.com | accessdate=2008-02-24 In 2006, Vig returned to producing while Manson worked on a solo album (as yet unreleased). Garbage ended their hiatus in 2007,cite web|url= http://music.aol.com/popeater/2007/01/05/garbage-end-sabbatical-for-benefit-show/| title=Garbage End Sabbatical for Benefit Show|publisher= Music.AOL.com |accessdate=2008-02-24 and released greatest hits retrospective Absolute Garbage . Worldwide, the band have sold over 17 million albums.cite web|url= http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php? uid=336| title=New Best Of Album|publisher= Garbage.com |accessdate=2008-02-24
The band began work and recording their fifth studio album in 2010, and have confirmed that they will tour in 2011 in support of the album.cite web|author=EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Holehouse |url= http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/singer-manson-introduces-new-husband-to-students-in-paisley-1.1064114 |title=Singer Manson introduces new husband to students in Paisley - Herald Scotland & #124; News & #124; Home News |publisher=Herald Scotland |date=2010-10-27 |accessdate=2011-07-28cite web|author= Hot right now: & nbsp; & nbsp; |url= http://www.gigwise.com/news/59259/Garbage-Reunite-To-Record-New-Album |title=Garbage Reunite To Record New Album |publisher=Gigwise |date=2010-11-01 |accessdate=2011-07-28cite web|url= http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/garbage-back-in-studio_1178194 |title=Garbage & #124; Garbage Back In Studio |publisher=Contactmusic |date=2010-11-01 |accessdate=2011-07-28cite web|url= http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/11/01/shirley-manson-garbage-new-album/ |title=Shirley Manson Confirms Garbage Are Recording New Album - Spinner UK |publisher=Spinnermusic.co.uk |date=2010-11-01 |accessdate=2011-07-28cite web|last=Warner |first=Brett |url= http://www.ology.com/music/garbage-reunite-record-new-album |title=Garbage Reunite To Record New Album |publisher=Ology |date=2010-11-01 |accessdate=2011-07-28
col-end ;Remix work Butch Vig has remixed songs for the following artists: Against Me!, Ash (band)|Ash , Beck , The Cult , Depeche Mode , EMF (band)|EMF , Fun Lovin' Criminals , House of Pain , Korn , Limp Bizkit , Alanis Morissette , Nine Inch Nails , Michael Penn , Galexia , M.O.P , U2 as well as his own band Garbage.
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