We start our tribute to American Music in Wisconsin. I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere. So I started........there.
From Milwaukee we have the Violent Femmes. Discovered as street corner musicians by James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders. They were invited to open for James's band that night and took the opportunity and made a 30+ year career out of it.
Next the first of two bands based in the college town of Madison. The three-piece Rainer Maria turned an inventory of Abraham Lincoln's pockets into a full length song.
Producer Butch Vig's resume' includes shaping the sounds of two of the touchstone albums of the 1990's Smashing Pumpkins' "Gish" and Nirvana's "Nevermind". As a drummer he was part of a couple of bands Spooner and First Person before he struck gold with Garbage. Though the band was based in Madison, they were fronted by Scottish lass Shirley Manson.
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