Butch Vig
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"Bryan David "Butch" Vig" is an American musician and record producer, best known as the drummer and co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage (band)/Garbage and the producer of Music recording sales certification/diamond-selling album Nevermind by Nirvana (band)/Nirvana.

A native of Wisconsin, Vig had been based in Madison for much of his career, from studying at the University of Wisconsin System/University of Wisconsin, to performing in local bands Spooner (band)/Spooner and Fire Town, and then to setting up his own recording studio, Smart Studios, with bandmate Steve Marker in the town.}} After becoming well known as a producer, he formed and played drums with Garbage, who sold 17 million records over a ten-year period. Vig returned to producing full-time once Garbage was put on hiatus in 2005. The band reconvened in 2010 to record material for their fifth album.

In 2012 Butch Vig ranked number nine in NME's Top 50 Greatest Producers Ever.

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We didn't tell the audience that this was a setup, that we were shooting a video, ... It was weird; there was this huge, like, 'Ahhh.' I heard this groan and moan, and then everybody started going 'Booooo' and yelling 'Bull-shit!' and throwing stuff up on the stage. Most people thought that she had been arrested. The song is about trying to find your own freedom.

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That's Shirley, tough and vulnerable. She's the real thing.

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I've seen all of the movies. I'm an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band's favorite Bond. Shirley feels a kinship with him because they're both from Scotland.

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We're pretty pleased with how it turned out. To Garbage fans, it sounds like a Garbage song. And to Bond fans, it's a Bond song.

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Much more of a pain in the ass than recording the song. It was like making a mini Bond film.

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We're a bunch of geeks, ... We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.

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We were trying to make sure the arrangement was good, because the song has a very dynamic and sweeping melody line.

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We were on tour so we couldn't make it. But we saw the movie in Tucson with a regular audience during its opening weekend. By the time we left the theater, there were like 500 kids standing outside and asking for autographs, so we had our own little mini-premiere.

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