114: Butch Vig (Garbage, Fire Town, Spooner)

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Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Butch Vig began his career drumming with various polka outfits and rock bands like Spooner and Fire Town. Also a prolific producer, Butch recorded Nirvana's breakthrough "Nevermind", along with landmark albums for bands like Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, and Smashing Pumpkins. Not content to stay behind the mixing desk, he also co-founded the massively popular band Garbage. He tells Joe about growing up in Viroqua, WI; developing his musical ear; navigating through conflict; and creative reinvention.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
0:05.4	Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate.
0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:27.9	Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:33.0	I want to play something for you.
0:55.0	You had to run. Now, I didn't. to play something for you. You're hearing You're going to school Tell me where are you going to run this?
0:59.0	You're hearing Where You Gonna Run by Spooner, featuring my guest, Butch Vig on drums.
1:05.0	Butch moved to Madison, Wisconsin in the mid-70s, and soon grabbed the drummer position for local favorites
1:12.0	like Spooner, Firetown, and several polka outfits.
1:16.5	Butch also became a prolific producer, recording landmark punk records for bands such as Kill Dozer
1:22.3	and DeCroitson.
1:24.3	After producing Nirvana's breakthrough album, Nevermind, Butch's career exploded.
1:29.5	Not content to stay behind the mixing board,
1:32.0	he co-formed the band Garbage,
1:33.8	which became massively popular in its own right.
1:37.3	The Smart Studios story,
1:39.2	which chronicles the history of the Madison-based studio,
1:42.2	Bouch co-owned,
1:43.3	is now available on iTunes.
1:49.2	And now our conversation with Butch Vig.
1:57.3	I was really lucky in the sense that my parents were both college-educated and quite liberal.
2:04.0	And my mom was a music teacher, so she exposed me to a lot of music.
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