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Butch Vig

(1955) Record Producer United States

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Butch Vig is a record producer from the United States.

Quick Facts About Butch Vig

Born: August 2, 1955
Nationality: United States
Profession: Record Producer

About Butch Vig

Bryan David "Butch" Vig is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Vig produced for several alternative rock acts of the 1990s, including Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, L7, and Sonic Youth. Notable albums he produced include Nirvana's diamond-selling album Nevermind (1991), L7's Bricks Are Heavy (1992), and the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream (1993).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Butch Vig

It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've…

Curious

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I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or…

Art

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I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that…

Band

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What I love about analogue is it really forces you to go for a performance. I hear these young bands play perfect…

Perfect

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There weren't even cell phones when we started Garbage, we'd have to pull over to the side of the road and use…

Cell phone

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I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when…

Family

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Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or…

Art

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If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied…

Crazy

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If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is…

Art

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I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things…

Break

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I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann…

Choices

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I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in…

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I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish…

Moving

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I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any…

Art

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I think also just being from the Midwest, my dad was a stoic Midwesterner, he always told me never take anything for…

Beer

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The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and…

Bizarre

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Now with the world being such a global community, the way the Internet has sort of leveled the playing field because you…

Community

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You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent.…

Agree

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I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know…

Kind

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All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a…

Done

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I love analogue tape and I love digital, they both have pluses and minuses and I don't really feel like I have…

Chorus

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