Fire Town split, and Vig reformed Spooner for a final album before Vig's production work became a full-time career for him. While the sessions did not do well, and the resulting record sank, Vig learned a lot of production techniques from the process. Atlantic hired producer Michael Frondelli to work with Fire Town on their second album.
Fire Town quickly became Vig's priority, and after their first album was signed to Atlantic Records. When Spooner lost momentum, Vig formed a band called First Person with Marker and Phil Davis and a side-project called Fire Town featuring Davis and Erikson. In 1984, Vig and Marker founded Smart Studios in Madison, while still performing drums in Spooner at night and driving a taxi cab during the day. The self-producing was later described by Vig as "kind of a trial by fire". Marker and Vig also started a small label, Boat Records, to release records of Spooner – which included their 1979 debut EP, "Cruel School" – and other bands they liked, which led to around twenty local acts. The following year, Vig helped Marker to build a home studio in Marker's basement. Vig joined a number of garage pop bands, including Eclipse, and in 1978 formed Spooner with Duke Erikson, Dave Benton, Jeff Walker and Joel Tappero. This soundtrack work stirred Vig's interest in the manipulation of sound. Vig contributed several electronic music soundtrack pieces to low-budget films, including one song on Slumber Party Massacre, a Hollywood B-movie. While a student at the University of Wisconsin, Vig met his eventual Garbage bandmate Steve Marker. Moving to Madison, Vig enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to study film direction. After seeing The Who perform on The Smothers Brothers, he swapped his piano for a $60 drum kit. Vig acquired the nickname Butch as a child, due to the severe crew cut his father gave him. DeVerne and Betty Vig, a music teacher, in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Butch Vig was born Bryan David Vig to Dr.
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