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Pat Smear (nacido como George Albert Ruthenberg el 5 de agosto de 1959) es un guitarrista de rock estadounidense, exmiembro de la banda Germs y actual miembro de Foo Fighters. También es reconocido por haber tocado en vivo con Nirvana como guitarrista rítmico.
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 ...
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.
Foo Fighter Pat Smear initially failed a 1985 audition for Prince's 'Raspberry Beret' video but was called back for one single reason.
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 (nacido como Georg Ruthenberg el 5 de agosto de 1959), es un guitarrista de rock que ha sido miembro de bandas tan conocidas como Germs, Nirvana y Foo Fighters. Smear nació y creció al oeste de Los Ángeles, California.
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.
