Butch Vig

Bryan "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1957) is both a rock musician and record producer.

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Butch Vig first became famous in the music business in 1991 when he produced Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish.

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Before that he had produced lots of small punk rock bands such as Killdozer and The Other Kids.

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Currently Butch Vig is a member 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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Together with Steve Marker (guitar player of Garbage) he also owns Smart Studios where artists such as Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage and Sonic Youth have recorded.

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Butch Vig is known to use Digidesign Pro Tools audio hardware and software with Apple Macintosh computers. He has used these products to produce the majority of Garbage songs and is a Pro Tools fan.

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August 2: August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining....

1957: 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar....

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