Was telling that story part of your motivation for making this film? Well, it was really the director Wendy Schneider who drove the narrative. I had seen Sound City and Sonic Highways, which are mostly about elite figures in music history, but your film is primarily about the American underground scene of the 1980s particularly in the Midwest, which I think has largely been overlooked. I really enjoyed your new film, "The Smart Studios Story", in part because it was not at all what I expected.
In addition to discussing the film, Vig also talks us through the seeming nightmare of recording Siamese Dream, summers in Madison with David Lynch, and what Nirvana's In Utero might have sounded like if he produced it. Prior to all that success, Vig co-founded a music studio in Madison, WI, and a new documentary screening on November 13th at Saint Vitus (tickets here) tells the story of that studio's role in the 1980s underground music scene, its rise to prominence, and then sadly (spoiler alert) its eventual shuttering. Vig is also the drummer for one of that period's most popular bands, Garbage, whose singer Shirley Manson we spoke to last year. He is the producer of Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream as well as other '90s touchstones such as Sonic Youth's Dirty, Smashing Pumpkins' Gish, and L7's Bricks Are Heavy. Few figures in music history have made as big an impact on defining the sound of an era as Butch Vig.
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