Butch Vig on Producing Smashing Pumpkins’ "Siamese Dream” 

Full Interview Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5U9XJdd4FlM.html

The album is perfection from start to finish, and still holds up sonically 30+ years later.

These stories are absolute gold. It’s funny that I never really appreciated the golden age of rock I was living through at the time until now.

I was in a band that opened for the Smashing Pumpkins the first time they every played Madison, WI at O’Cayz Corral. Only 2 people came to watch show. Afterwards, I was having a drink at the bar with D’arcy, and she said, “I wish I was in a band like yours. You guys look like your having fun,” which still sticks with me, particularly afterwards since they got/are so big. You could already tell things were not great in the band.

Siamese Dream is one of the greatest sounds ever, a defining album for the 90s

Butch Vig must've been the most in demand producer in the early 90s after producing Nevermind & Siamese dream back to back.

Jimmy’s drumming on SD is incredible. Extremely influential for generations to come.

As a Madison native, it's always been such a point of pride for us that Butch and Smart and Garbage were all local products. Got to meet Butch the night I got engaged in February 2003, and he was a real gentleman and had no rock-star ego going on.

Rick getting to see Butch years before they would talk and then Butch presumably watching Rick for years before being interviewed by him is a very interesting setup.

Siamese Dream has a FAT sound like no other. An all-time classic!!! Love to hear Butch speak about it. What a resumé..

Jimmy’s drumming on Siamese Dream is sick. Ons of my favourite drummers.

I once spoke to Butch Vig and Shirley Ann Manson from Garbage (but mostly Butch) for about half an hour. It was when I was just getting serious about music. I mentioned that I was a drummer and Butch became immediately interested. He was admittedly a little tipsy, but he was incredibly nice and clearly passionate about others being passionate about music. He gave me a business card with his email on it. It was only a couple weeks after that I realised just who Butch was, and that Shirley was the vocalist of Garbage. I have no idea how it didn't click with me at the time I was speaking to them. There might have been other legends at the table too as it was a table of 6.

probably the most emotive rock album of the 90's.

Siamese Dream is alternative rock mastery. Every single thing about it is perfect, from the songwriting to the production. Alt rock will never reach those heights again. SD is my favorite album by far.

The dude behind the scenes of every early 90s album you loved. His approach was so analogue and tribal. Dudes a stud.

Siamese Dream is one of the greatest records ever recorded in my opinion. Fantastic from beginning to end. Saw Garbage in Austin when they were opening for Smashing Pumpkins during the Mellon Collie tour. They sounded outstanding, way better the SP did.

Please do something with Alan Moulder and/or Steve Albini. True masters in capturing and creating the most vicious sound.

One of my all time favorite albums. I love the distortion on the guitars.

Sonically my favorite album of all time! Siamese Dream!

Would love to hear more from him about Garbage! I was always amazed at the quality of their sound heavy, hard guitar, but extremely crisp and clean. Such a nice change from the grunge. I could crank it way too loud on my cheap car stereo and it would still sound good.

This is my favourite album of all time. Every song is perfect. The whole thing is just brilliant.

Literally was just listening to this album in the sauna a couple mins ago. One of the best rock albums of all time.

Butch Vig is an incredible guy and a great producer..

If you have a moment with nothing better to do, here's how I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins: I was 14 years old. Back then, I used to live with my parents on the 4th floor of an apartment building. I had a friend who was a little older than me, he lived on the 2nd floor of that building. One night, when I was at his place, he had invited a few of his friends to play video games on his Nintendo NES and one of them had brought a CD that they played on repeat for the whole time. I didn't know that band. Half of the songs were songs played on acoustic guitars and the other half were songs played on electric guitars, all live versions. I didn't play video games with them, I just sat there, watching them and listening to the music and the more I listened to those songs, the more I liked them, especially one of the songs that was played on acoustic guitars. I later found out that this song is called "Disarm". When they were about to leave, I asked the guy who brought the CD who the band was and he was so happy that someone else liked The Smashing Pumpkins as much as he did. He even let me keep the CD for a couple of days, so that I could copy it to a cassette tape. A few days afterwards, I took the little money that I had and bought the Siamese Dream album.

One of my favourite albums ever!

One of my best friends and I listened to Siamese Dream brand new in his 1972 VW Super Beetle in Madison WI we KNEW Gish, we knew Smart Studios, we were BLOWN AWAY ... the super beetle had a subwoof we got rip roarn baked hot boxed on some good Hawaiian bud which was RARE in Madison usually Kentucky ditch weed 🔥💨 great album! 😎🤘🏻

Great interview! Great shoutout to Cosmic Psychos. More people should know about these legends!

Rick I think it would be awesome if you could get Mark Rubel & Matt Talbot on to talk about recording downward is heavenward.

Fantastic interview, worth listening to it in full

This was the surprise interview I absolutely love!

SO cool to see this, SD is one of my all-time favorite albums! 🤘

Love when you have other producer interviews 😊

I was at The Point show; one if the best Rock experiences ever.

What a cool interview!

Great stuff!

Beato, good questions, good ideas and best of all good taste

Billy trolling the audience with the Donovan Song is 💯 Billy Corgan

You should put Original Date , of interwiews in the Descriptions. For later viewing.,, much later 10 yrs.......

Anybody remember Autumn '91? Like everything dropped that fall... Bad Motor Finger, BSSM, Nevermind, ad nauseam. Wonderful times.

Overwhelming Colorfast is and was AMAZING.

One of my all time favorite albums

The Mellow Yellow story reminds me of one of John Mulaney's best bits, where he and his friends played "What's New, Pussycat" maybe 20 times in a row on a restaurant jukebox until people were losing their mnds!

I wore out this album start to finish for an entire year or two. Never seen SP live…and maybe for the best, from stories I hear? One of my favorite records…

Awesome thx guys

Met Butch a few year ago. Very nice guy.

Masterpiece!

I knew since the Singles soundtrack and their song "Drown" the next album was gonna be huge.

The mello yellow story is classic 90s antics Amazing!

Cherub Rock and Rocket are 2 of my favorite songs from the 90s

Love this era of music

Thank you Mr. Vig for this masterpiece.

God I grew up in Marietta, & when I found out that Siamese Dream was recoded at Triclops Studio I was blown away 🙌🎶🖤

I loved that Overwhelming Colorfast album so much.

Great drummer.

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For first three albums of this era you'd be hard pressed to find a band that was more successful creatively than the Smashing Pumpkins.

Overwhelming Colorfast was produced well... Saw them in Madison at OK's Corral

Great to know the man behind one of the records of my life.

Legend ❤

Props to Rick Beato...he knows ppl😂😂😂❤❤❤

November 26, 1996 Laffayette la. I seen Garbage and Smashing Pumpkin. They came back to play a show that was canceled due to Chamberlain and Keyboardist issues. Billy opens up the set by openingly ridiculing the town by saying something like I don’t know why we are even here in Lafayette. I never held that against him… always hated living in Louisiana. From what I remember it was a great show.

omg that accent sounds like home!!!!

Butch’s impression of a plane taking off is uncanny! The man’s talent knows no bounds

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I've always seen the recording span of Siamese Dream listed as December 1992-March 1993. I'm not sure where this six month break factors in. The record was out by July 1993.

damn, what happened to _Overwhelming Colorfast?_

He should've asked about the 40 guitar tracks on Soma!

Cool, dude

❤❤❤

TIL Siamese Dream was recorded in Atlanta, which I lived in for 20 years.

i like this record 🪚

*He is the greatest rock producer of all time* 🎧

IF Rick hasn't heard Wall of Eyes yet, he should 'react' to it live...best non-Radiohead side project album yet, VERY retro/futuristic music theory whiz-friendly.

Butch says Siamese like normal people. Have you ever heard how Billy says it?

I keep thinking that thumbnail is David Spade.

Why dont u ask about Steve Marker and Duke Erickson?

🎸👍🏼👍🏼

I thought Billy said Butch worked with them on a sub pop demo/ep

Looks like Todd Rundgren

Just Subscribed! Sorry about that

This was the best album SP did.

I am the 13%!

I saw a Marilyn Manson show in the 90s where they did the same thing that Butch talked about with Mellow Yellow, except it was Freebird by Lynyrd skynrd. By the third time they played it, there were like 6000 goth kids in black singing “this bird you cannot change!”

"Did you know it was gonna be such a big record?" ... every time I hear that question, I wanna say Come on, does anyone?

Could you imagine if some record company guy pressured them to start recording without Today or Disarm? Completely different record.

They couldn't hide from Manny Chevrolet 😅

😊

Another round and im on the ground, another glass and im on my ass, now i never done no wrong as such, im just the man that drank to much!

Torana, glad he dropped that after a hard "Toronto".

Reminder. This is not Mutt Lange.

Butch seems like a great guy, Siamese Dream is basically the sound of the Russian Big Muff

We had a singer that for mouths would just hum along to the songs we had but never had any actual lyrics. Finally, our guitar player told him to just let it out and stop trying to write the perfect lyric. He turned out to be the best frontman of any band I played in. And when we went into the studio, he learned how to do harmonies in like an hour.

If you have never had sexy time to this album, I suggest you try it. ❤

Arguably the best songs were the ones written during the hold

rick beato questions should exclude rick beato experience, or 'friends' networking. superficiality is killing the music.

Windy Hill RD Marietta.

I love that he still has that "Myadisan" accent lol❤

so you dint here any songs from smashing Pumkins.. and then say when we did Gish??

The album sounds orange

4:35 you went to commercial RIGHT when he was talking about the origin of the famous distortion, and then didn't go back to it. the one thins i wanted to hear. if this is the kind of thing i'm to expect, not subbing.