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Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by his stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician. He is best known for being the lead guitarist and co-founder of Los Angeles–based punk band The Germs and for being a rhythm guitarist for grunge band Nirvana (which he joined as a touring guitarist in 1993), and Foo Fighters ...
Alison Braun/Getty Images. Pat Smear has had such a long and storied career in rock 'n' roll that one would assume he came into this world with a guitar in one hand and a pick in the other. However, while he picked up music at a young age, the guitar was, surprisingly, not his first instrument.
How a Foo Fighter Ended Up in Prince’s ‘Raspberry Beret’ Video. Martin Kielty Published: April 15, 2022. YouTube. The mid-'80s wasn't the greatest period of Pat Smear’s career. He’d ...
Pat Smear Remembers Nirvana’s Final Year. With a deluxe reissue of 'In Utero' out soon, the band's touring guitarist looks back. By Simon Vozick-Levinson. August 29, 2013. Kurt Cobain and Pat...
Pat Smear was a comparative unknown in the early ‘90s, at least to grunge-loving teens tuned into the sounds emitting from the Pacific Northwest. But a phone call changed everything for the Los Angeles punk, largely off-radar since the dissolution of his first band, the Germs, in 1980.
Before discovering punk rock, guitarist Pat Smear found God. Born Georg Ruthenberg in Los Angeles, CA, on August 5, 1959, Smear ran away from home at the age of 13 to join a Jesus commune. Smear then… Read Full Biography
As Foo Fighters celebrate their 10th LP, Medicine At Midnight, we caught up with Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett to look back at the guitarists’ journeys as part of the biggest band on earth. By Paul Robson. When Nirvana ’s touring guitarist Pat Smear first heard drummer Dave Grohl listening to the music that would become the Foo Fighters ...
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