Butch Vig

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Bryan “Butch” Vigorson (born August 2, 1957 in Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a rock musician and record producer.

Butch Vig first became famous in the music business in 1991 when he produced Nirvana’s Nevermind and The Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish and Siamese Dream. Before that he had produced lots of small punk rock bands such as Killdozer and The Other Kids.

His production work on Nevermind is widely credited as the reason that Nirvana broke through to the mainstream, going #1 on the charts (replacing Michael Jackson). Their previous album, Bleach was produced by Jack Endino and had a much dirtier sound, while Nevermind had many overdubs and studio tricks (part of this is credited to Andy Wallace). Cobain would later criticize Vig for the album’s slickness. However, Vig’s next project would serve to complement his skills. Billy Corgan welcomed Vig’s elaborate production on The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, specifically layering, the track “Soma” on the album for example uses over 40 dubs. This album met with great commercial and critical reception, also breaking another indie band into the mainstream.

Currently Butch Vig is the drummer of the popular group Garbage, who have released the albums Garbage (1995), Version 2.0 (1998), Beautifulgarbage (2001) and Bleed Like Me (2005) plus a James Bond theme song for The World Is Not Enough.

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Danielcarmoo wrote:
November 2009

Genious.

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kittyykatt94 wrote:
June 2009

I'm sorry butch but 21st century breakdown sucked..

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ontheupside wrote:
May 2009

Green Day... BUTCH, WHAT HAPPENED?! D'=

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JordaneLopes wrote:
April 2009

C'mon people...let's vote on this pics!! let's put the Vig's 'charuto'pic. very nice.

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JordaneLopes wrote:
April 2009

..Hey Vig..take a look at me. let me dirty up your mind...!! 8:-***

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Daniel_Green wrote:
March 2009

:D

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djmollusk wrote:
December 2008

probably one of my favorite producers

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cherrylips89 wrote:
October 2007

hi butch is awsme i met him once

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religend wrote:
June 2007

je le manager du groupe de rockreligend permetez nous de vous envoyer les démo il sont vraiment bon tres bon like nirvana,alice in chains...ect

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