This album met with great commercial and critical reception, also breaking another indie band into the mainstream. Billy Corgan welcomed Vig's elaborate production on The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream.
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Cobain said that "Butch Vig.recorded the album perfectly," in a 1993 MTV interview. Cobain would later criticize Vig for the album's slickness, although this might be due to Andy Wallace's mixing of the album. Kurt Cobain originally refused to double-track his vocals and guitars but Vig reportedly got him to comply by saying "John Lennon double-tracked". Vig incorporated overdubs and vocal doubletracking, whereas Nirvana's previous album, Bleach (produced by Jack Endino) had a more "lo-fi" sound. Vig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind. Fire Town split, and Vig reformed Spooner for a final album before Vig's production work became a full-time career for him. Vig also briefly worked with metal band Marseille, recording keyboards for their album Touch The Night. While the sessions did not do well, and the resulting record sank, Vig learned a lot of production techniques from the process. Atlantic hired producer Michael Fondelli to work with Fire Town on their second album. Fire Town quickly became Vig's priority, and after their first album were signed to Atlantic Records. 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. 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. Spooner founded their own label, Boat Records to issue their own recordings, including their 1979 debut EP, " Cruel School", and releases for around twenty local acts. 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. Vig contributed several soundtrack pieces to low-budget films, including one song on Slumber Party Massacre, a Hollywood B-movie. Moving to Madison, Vig enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study film direction, where he first met Steve Marker. After seeing The Who perform on The Smothers Brothers, he swapped his piano for a $60 drum kit. Vig acquired the nickname Butch as a child, due to the severe crew cut his father gave him.
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DeVerne and Betty Vig, a music teacher, in Viroqua, Wisconsin. In 2012 Butch Vig ranked number nine in NME's Top 50 Greatest Producers Ever.īutch Vig was born Bryan David Vig to Dr. Now a resident of the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, Vig is married to his second wife, Beth Halper, a former DreamWorks A & R executive they have a daughter, Bo Violet. Vig returned to producing full-time once Garbage was put on hiatus.
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After becoming well known as a producer, he returned to performing with Garbage, who sold 17 million records over a ten-year period. 2nd August 1955 in Viroqua, Wisconsin, United Statesīryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician and record producer, best known internationally as the drummer of the Madison, Wisconsin-based alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of diamond-selling album Nevermind by Nirvana.Ī native of Wisconsin, Vig had been based in Madison for much of his career, from studying at the 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.