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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 ...

  2. Aug 29, 2023 · 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.

  3. Apr 15, 2022 · Martin Kielty Published: April 15, 2022. YouTube. The mid-'80s wasn't the greatest period of Pat Smear’s career. He’d achieved acclaim for his rhythm guitar work with Los Angeles punk band...

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  4. Aug 29, 2013 · 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...

  5. Interview: Ahead of the 20th anniversary rerelease of Nirvana's 1993 LP album 'In Utero', Clash speaks to Pat Smear, guitarist with the Seattle band in 1993/94 and a member of Foo Fighters and the Germs.

  6. Apr 18, 2022 · For Foo Fighter's guitarist Pat Smear (real name Georg Albert Ruthenberg), fame and fortune weren't worth the personal cost and, eventually, led to him leaving the band. Around the time Smear departed in 1997, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl told ID magazine (via Rolling Stone ), "He told us early on this year that he didn't want to tour ...

  7. Oct 3, 2023 · One of the most iconic and legendary musicians of the Californian Hardcore Punk scene of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Pat Smear has been a member of some of the most influential bands ever, with a career that started back in the late 1970’s when he founded The Germs with Darby Crash.

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