Garbage: Whatever Happened to the Band?

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In December of 1994 BBC radio began playing a gothic sounding song titled Vow
The group's female singer threatened to ruin an ex-lovers life
It was sleek and somewhat sinister
It was helped by a biting guitar line and the song was written and recorded by a relatively obscure band called Garbage who carved out their own subgenre of rock called futuristic grunge pop
It soon became known that Vow featured the renowned producer Butch Vig on drums who was best known as the producer behind Nirvana's smash hit Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins record Gish and this prompted a huge buzz of interest in the group
He didn't know it at the time in 1991 but Butch Vig would set the template for the dominant alternative rock sound of the 90s when he began to work with Nirvana in 1991
Now not much was known about Vig's two American bandmates and fellow producers Steve Marker and Duke Eriksen
Literally nothing was known about the band's Scottish singer Shirley Manson
That of course would be changed with the release of Garbage's self-titled debut album The
Next Summer in 1995
The band's debut album would sell over 4 million copies and would transform the group into
rockstars especially the group singer
Manson's bandmates took a back seat to the front woman
The spontaneous and extroverted Manson entertained journalists with a diversity of stories as the one time she settled an argument with an ex-boyfriend by taking a dump on his cornflakes
It also helped that she was attractive and soon became a role model and the it girl and the sex symbol and to a lot of people she was a complete package
Now the group's sophomore effort Version 2.0 landed in 1998 and for a while Garbage appeared to be blessed
They were plastered all over the media
They headlined the Writing Festival and they were invited to record a James Bond film theme
However the relentless schedule was taking its toll on the group and the music business was about to undergo a dramatic shift
In summary Garbage would fall apart because of internal tensions record company politics divorce depression bands like The White Stripes and The Strokes as well as 9/11
And the combined internal and external forces split the band apart and left deep scars that took years to heal
And in 2010 Garbage would finally reform
Garbage's story begins in Madison Wisconsin in the late 70s
Madison was the state's capital and it's a pretty small picturesque city built on the confluence of the Yahara River and four surrounding lakes
And the epicenter of Madison's music scene was a club called Merlin's which hosted American and British punk and post-punk groups
And it was also a regular hangout for a local new wave band called Spooner which was formed in 1974 by singer and guitarist Duke Erickson who had moved to Madison to become an art teacher in the summer of 1978
And Erickson talked Butch Vig out of relocating to Colorado to work as a ski instructor and it to becoming Spooner's new drummer
Vig was busy at the time finishing up a Film Studies degree and brought with him another student named Steve Marker to be the band's roadie
Spooner went on to make a handful of albums and open up local gigs for big artists of the time including The Police Cheap Trick and Pat Benatar
Unfortunately for the group their success never extended beyond their isolated pocket of the Midwest
And it was during the group's downtime that Marker invested in a 4-track reel-to-reel tape recorder and together with Vig began producing other bands
This led to the duo creating Smart Studios in 1983 in a two-story red brick building in downtown Madison
And from the mid-80s onwards a handful of bands would go through Smart Studios including
Purge Overkill Tad Killdozer and in 1991 both Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins
It was during this time that Vig was also making a name for himself behind the scenes in the industry as he reinvented songs by the likes of U2 Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails
More specifically he was erasing everything and just keeping the vocal tracks and adding entirely new music with the help of Marker and Erickson
And it was this time in Vig's life that he'd learned about how to use loops and samples in addition to traditional instruments that paved the way for his future band Garbage
Vig would recall the original idea was for it to be a studio band
We were thinking of something likeThe Golden Palominos where each song had a different singer and a stylistic approach
In the first instance and based on their shared love of Blondie and Patti Smith they wanted to have a female singer
And Vig and Marker saw Shirley Manson on MTV one night in 1994 performing a song called
Suffocate Me with her short-lived band Angelfish
It was the one and only time the video was screened on the channel
And Shirley Ann Manson was born in Edinburgh on August 26 1966
She rebelled against her traditional upbringing and music seemed to run in her family

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