Butch Vig on recording Kurt Cobain the 1st time! Nirvana, Garbage & Smashing Pumpkins in the studio.

Legendary recording engineer and drummer Butch Vig talks about his journey from Nevermind to Siamese dream to new Garbage music! This episode is sponsored in part by the MACKIE DLZ Creator Adaptive digital mixer. Visit → https://mackie.com/dlz for more info For more incredible rock & roll interviews, hit the subscribe button and also check out the Lipps Service with Scott Lipps podcasts on Spotify, Apple, or your favorite podcast player. 0:00 INTRO 3:49 growing up in a musical household 4:55 on his first drum kit 7:19 getting into punk and new wave and recording 8:12 the local scene in Madison 10:27 on killdozer the band that started it all for him - that Kurt and Billie (corgan) heard 13:00 on his first encounter with the pumpkins and recording them 14:52 on Taylor Hawkins & Jimmy Chamberlin 17:52 on recording Gish 18:41 on the pressure behind Siamese dream 19:24 on the original producers scheduled to do Nevermind 20:30 on getting the first cassette of teen spirit and Dave grohl mention and having only a few days to do preproduction 21:28 on seeing Nirvana for the first time at a pizza place 22:59. How Nirvana bootlegged themselves! 23:00 on hearing Nirvana for the first time. 24.52 on Chad the early Nirvana drummer bud Dave grohl 25:30 on Kurt and Lennon’s similarity in doubling vocals (good) 27:21 on cheap trick 28:38 on working with Courtney 30:00 on having the “Midas touch” after nevermind 31:10 on turning down The Rolling Stones / Mick Jagger 33:24 on that challenge that was Siamese dream 35:50 on the pressure on the pumpkins after Gish and nevermind 38:30 on coming undone during Siamese dream 41:00 on working with sonic youth 44:34 on working with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins in the Foos 47:37 on different production techniques with different bands 49:00 on having to replace drummers 50:59 old school recording vs new school 53:41 The new Garbage record 56:24 on the last Garbage record bring social political versus the new one 57:42 on touring for him these days 59:38 Butchs top 5 most underrated drummers of all time 1:04 the top 5 most underrated rock albums CREDITS (instagram links) Host - @ScottLipps Edited by @toastycakes Music by @Robby_hoff