Studio Where Nirvana Worked On 'Nevermind' Wrecked

[TexasStooge]

(9/26/03, 6 p.m. ET) -- Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, where Nirvana recorded part of their ground-breaking 1991 album Nevermind, was demolished earlier this week when a truck crashed into it.

The studio, which is owned by Nevermind producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig, was destroyed when the truck hit a car on the road outside and veered into the building. Damages were estimated at $50,000. No one was in the studio at the time, although Garbage, who were recording their new album there, had just left the facility an hour before the accident.

Vig told NME.com, "I got woken up at three in the morning by a call from the security guard there who said, 'Man, you better get down [here]--a truck's just gone into your studio.' ...if it had been three days earlier, there would have been a band called Paris, Texas in the downstairs studio and Garbage would have been upstairs. It would have killed them."

Nirvana recorded at Smart Studios for a week in April of 1990 during the sessions for Nevermind, emerging with the song "Polly." Other acts who have recorded at Smart include Beck, the Smashing Pumpkins, and U2.

Ironically, Smart has been the site of catastrophes before. Several vehicles have smashed into the studio over the last 10 years, including a boat trailer and cars driven by drunk drivers. Vig told NME.com that he arrived at work one day to find the basement flooded with eight feet of water.

The new Garbage album is due out in February or March of 2004. Vig described it as "a lot noisier and darker, less poppy than the last album."

[Miss Mary]

Stooge.....sorta sad isn't it? I always liked Polly, especially the unplugged version.

That building must be located in a bad spot!!!

Mary