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Butch Vig

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Also known as Bryan David "Butch" Vig, Bryan David Vig, Bryan Vig

American musician and record producer

Film & TV

Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA

Bryan Vig is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the drummer and co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage.

Known for

  • Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure — Self2025
  • Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story — Self2023
  • The Sound of 007 — Self2022
  • L7: Pretend We're Dead — Self2017
  • The Smart Studios Story2016
  • Garbage - Live in Washington DC — Himself2015
  • Sound City — Self2013
  • Garbage - One Mile High... Live — Self2013
  • Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust — Himself2013
  • See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould — Self2012

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1957-08-02
rock

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,787
Total plays
7,556

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 (replac

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Viroqua
Occupation
musician
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
music
Instrument
drum kit
Record label
Geffen Records
Image
ButchVig2010.jpg
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member of
Garbage
date of birth
1955-00-00
Commons category
Butch Vig
start of work period
1978-00-00
social media followers
36542
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Butch Vig, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana