Paste: Was Not Your Kind of People a planned attack? Do you ever take into consideration releasing records when you feel the pop scene has grown stale and needs a good shaking?
We’re a weird little family, and it’s cool. I’m very close with Shirley, Duke and Steve. There’s always a little bit of a club mentality, of being in a clique with your mates. I’ve also always been in bands since I was sixteen years old. I play guitar and keyboards, and Steve (Marker) plays drums and bass, guitars and keyboards, so it gives all of us a chance to really stretch. A lot of bands have a very finite, set way in which they record and their instrumentation is locked into place and in Garbage we’re pretty free. We use fuzzy guitars, big beats, electronica, atmospherics and trashy drums. As a producer I’m always looking at someone else’s music so there’s a great sense of freedom when we’re in the studio because we have a fairly wide open sonic template that we work on. It’s a creative outlet for me as a musician and songwriter.
Paste: Has Garbage always been about having fun and having a creative outlet? I have to assume you don’t need to be in a band for monetary gain.īutch Vig: It’s always been, for me, looked at as two things. With the release of Garbage’s new record, Not Your Kind Of People on the band’s new record label STUNVOLUME, Vig is rejuvenated, and happy to be playing with his friends again. Vig, the super-producer behind many of the seminal albums of the ‘90s (Nirvana’s Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream) and contemporary classics including Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown and Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light, has stayed busy during the Garbage hiatus behind the boards. While Manson naturally attracted much of the spotlight, Garbage was, and remains, a united creative collaboration between all four founding members: Manson (vocals), Duke Erikson (guitar/keyboard), Steve Marker (guitar/keyboard) and Butch Vig (drums/loops). Shirley Manson’s enigmatic sex appeal and Garbage’s moody, electro-rock singles “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains” provided the perfect soundtrack to the pre-internet, post-grunge era, and a star was born in Manson, whose influence can be seen and heard today, from Emily Haines of Metric to Lana Del Rey. (Click on image below to browse.Here’s a fact that might make you feel old: It’s been seven years since the release of the last Garbage record Bleed Like Me, and 17 years since the release of their self-titled debut. Vig's first high-profile production work at Smart Studios came in 1991 when he produced albums for two grunge bands, The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind.Īfter becoming well known as a producer, he formed and played drums with the alternative rock band, Garbage, that went on to sell 17 million records over a ten-year period.įor more information on Butch Vig, visit Wikipedia.īuy Butch Vig album/CD music at Amazon. In his early career, Vig was a drummer in local bands Spooner and Fire Town, and then went on to set up his own recording studio, Smart Studios, with Fire Town bandmate Steve Marker.
For much of Vig's career he was based in Madison, Wisconsin. He then attended the University of Wisconsin where he met his eventual Garbage bandmate, Steve Marker. Vig grew up in Viroqua playing the drums and being a participant in the Viroqua High School band. Best known as the drummerĪnd co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of diamond-selling album Nevermind by Nirvana. licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International - Valdo Howell.īutch Vig - Musician, drummer, songwriter, record producer and remixer born Bryan David "Butch" Vig on Augin Viroqua, Wisconsin. Above: Photo of Butch Vig in Madison's Smart Studios.
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