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Butch Vig (born Bryan David Vigorson, August 2, 1955, Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a record producer and the drummer for the rock band, Garbage.
Early careerVig became interested in music and production work when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin
Vig produced several local and regional punk rock bands, such as Killdozer and The Other Kids.
While enrolled in college, Vig met Duke Erikson and Steve Marker
. With Erikson, Vig began the band that became Spooner in 1979. Vig and Marker spent hours recording on Marker's four-track tape recorder in his basement. That was the nascent beginning of Smart Studios.
While no offers came to Spooner, the side project Fire Town was signed to Atlantic Records in 1988. They gained critical acclaim and small financial success with their releases "I'll Carry The Torch For You", "Rain On You", and "The Good Life".
Production workVig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind.
His production work on Nevermind is widely credited
Billy Corgan welcomed Vig's elaborate production on The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream. The track "Soma," for example, uses over 40 guitar overdubs. This album met with great commercial and critical reception, also breaking another indie band into the mainstream.
Together with Steve Marker (guitar player of Garbage) he also owns Smart Studios, located in Madison, where Vig currently resides.
MusicianAs a musician, Vig is the drummer for Garbage, who have released five albums:
- Garbage (1995)
- Version 2.0 (1998)
- Beautifulgarbage (2001)
- Bleed Like Me (2005)
- Absolute Garbage, a greatest hits collection (2007)
The band also contributed the theme song for the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
Recent timesVig worked with Jimmy Eat World on their sixth album, Chase This Light, released in October 2007. He is also working on soundtracks for two new movies, and producing English indie rock band The Subways' second album. This will be the first time Vig has worked with a UK based band. He is also working with Tom Gabel of Against Me! on his new solo EP, which is suspected to be called 'Heart Burns'. Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, revealed in Carson Daly interview that Vig will be producing the as-yet-untitled 8th studio album by Green Day.
Productions- 2009: Green Day's new album, yet to be titled.
- 2008: The Subways - All Or Nothing
- 2007: Against Me! - New Wave
- 2007: Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
- 2006: Kilroy - LP
- 2005: Garbage - Bleed Like Me
- 2003: AFI - Sing The Sorrow
- 2001: Garbage - Beautifulgarbage
- 1998: Garbage - Version 2.0
- 1997: The And - And Night
- 1997: The And - Day
- 1995: Garbage - Garbage
- 1995: Soul Asylum - Let Your Dim Light Shine
- 1994: Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
- 1994: Helmet - Betty
- 1994: Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World
- 1994: Killdozer - Uncompromising War on Art Under...
- 1993: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
- 1993: Gumball- Real Gone Deal
- 1993: Gumball - Super Tasty
- 1993: Gumball - The Damage Done
- 1993: Crash Vegas - Stone
- 1992: Sonic Youth - Dirty
- 1992: L7 - Bricks are Heavy
- 1992: Chainsaw Kittens - Flipped Out in Singapore
- 1992: Drain - Pick Up Heaven
- 1992: Gumball - Wisconsin Hayride
- 1991: The Fluid - Spot the Loon
- 1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
- 1991: Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
- 1991: Tad - 8-Way Santa
- 1991: The Young Fresh Fellows - Electric Bird Digest
- 1991: Die Kreuzen - Cement
- 1990: Urge Overkill - Americruiser
- 1990: King Snake Roost - Ground into Dirt
- 1990: Laughing Hyenas - Life of Crime
- 1990: The Fluid - Glue
- 1989: Killdozer - For Ladies Only
- 1988: Die Kreuzen - Century Days
- 1987: The Other Kids - Happy Home
- 1987: Killdozer - Little Baby Buntin
- 1985: The Other Kids - Living In The Mirror
- 1985: Killdozer - 12 Point Buck
- 1985: Killdozer - Snakeboy
- 1984: Killdozer - Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite
- 1982: Die Kreuzen - Internal
RemixesButch Vig has remixed songs for the following artists:
- Against Me!
- Ash
- Beck
- The Cult
- Depeche Mode
- EMF
- Garbage
- House of Pain
- Korn
- Limp Bizkit
- Alanis Morissette
- Nine Inch Nails
- Michael Penn
- M.O.P
- The Subways
- U2
Film soundtracksButch Vig composed and produced the soundtrack for the following movie:
- The Other Side (pre-production)
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