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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 ...
Dave Grohl and Pat Smear recall Kurt Cobain asking the Germs guitarist to join Nirvana. SUBSCRIBE for more videos: http://bit.ly/2qswmZUWant to know what's g...
It’s been over a quarter of a century since Foo Fighters was born as a vehicle for Dave Grohl’s unheard solo material. Now, as they celebrate 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.
A teenage Queen, Alice Cooper and Runaways fan, Georg Ruthenberg reinvented himself as Pat Smear in 1977 when he formed his first band The Germs with his best friends Paul Beahm (aka ‘Darby Crash’), Teresa Ryan (‘Lorna Doom’) and Belinda Carlisle…yes, that Belinda Carlisle.
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.
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Steve Albini once discussed how Pat Smear helped to save Nirvana with his musical excellence and his technical ability.
On December 13th, 1993, Nirvana played a raw, bruising hometown show in Seattle. “We were on that night,” says touring guitarist Pat Smear, who had joined the band at Kurt Cobain ‘s ...
