Pat Smear

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pat Smear
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Aug 5, 1959(1959-08-05)
Age	65
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Leo

Pat Smear Biography

Pat Smear is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on August 5, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Guitarist who’s contributed to the music of bands such as The Germs, Nirvana, and the Foo Fighters.

He’s been privileged to perform shows and record along with He has been honored to play shows and record with Paul McCartney, including for the Live Aid Hurricane Sandy benefit., as well as during Live Aid’s Live Aid Hurricane Sandy benefit.

Georg Ruthenberg was born and raised in West Los Angeles, California, to a mother of African-American and Native American descent and a German Jewish immigrant father. His parents forced him to take piano lessons at a young age, and a few years later, he began teaching himself to play the guitar. Before becoming a musician, he was a very religious child and at age 13 left home to join a commune. Later, he attended IPS (Innovative Program School), an alternative school within University High School in Los Angeles. It was there that he met vocalist Darby Crash, alongside whom he would play in the Germs in the late 1970s. Smear and Crash were both expelled from IPS due to concerns they were inciting unruly behavior among the students.

Smear lists his influences as Joan Jett, Brian James, Brian May, and Steve Jones. As a teenager in 1976, Smear and Darby Crash formed the Germs with bassist Lorna Doom and drummer Dottie Danger (the pseudonym of Belinda Carlisle, who went on to front The Go-Go’s). Smear was the only band member who had any musical knowledge or proficiency. For most of his time in the Germs, Smear reported that he didn’t own a guitar but rather “just borrowed from whoever we were playing with”.

He was brought up within West Los Angeles by a German immigrant father and an African American mother.

Pat Smear Net Worth

Pat Smear is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pat Smear 's net worth $25 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His parents forced him to take piano lessons, however he began to learn guitar from a young age.

He was a major contributor to his involvement in the Sound City documentary by He was heavily involved in the Sound City documentary by Dave Grohl…

Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by the stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician and actor. He is best known as a guitarist in the rock band Foo Fighters, with whom he has recorded four studio albums.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Pat Smear Dating?

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In 1993, he received a call from Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain, asking him to join the band as a second guitarist for an upcoming tour. Smear at first thought that it was his friend, Carlos “Cake” Nunez, playing a joke on him; however, Courtney Love had told Smear a few days prior that Cobain was going to call him. Smear accepted immediately and played his first show with Nirvana on Saturday Night Live on September 25, 1993. He toured with Nirvana for about six months, and appears on their live albums MTV Unplugged in New York, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, as well as on material for the compilations Nirvana and With the Lights Out and the concert DVD Live and Loud.

Facts & Trivia

Pat Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Pat Smear celebrates birthday on August 5 of every year.

Following Cobain’s death, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl formed a band to support his self-titled album, the first effort from the band which would become known as Foo Fighters. Smear joined the group from its inception in late October 1994, but because the band’s first album was a collection of demos recorded solely by Grohl, Smear did not appear on a Foo Fighters album until 1997’s The Colour and the Shape.

Are Dave Grohl and Pat Smear friends?

As with In Utero, Smear toured behind the Foo Fighters debut album. The friendship between Grohl and Smear was already solidified through Nirvana. “For the last year of the band [Nirvana], it made the band a lot more fun to be in, having Pat in the band,” Grohl later explained on The Howard Stern Show.

What ethnicity is Pat Smear?

Early life. Georg Ruthenberg was born and raised in West Los Angeles, California to a mother of African-American and Native American descent and a Jewish German immigrant father. His parents forced him to take piano lessons at a young age, and a few years later, he began teaching himself to play the guitar.

Did Pat Smear leave the Foo Fighters?

Foo Fighters’ guitarist Pat Smear made it official last night; he’s leaving the band. Smear, who played with Foo leader Dave Grohl in Nirvana toward the end of that legendary band’s career, announced that he was quitting the group on live TV, during the warm-up show for last night’s MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

When did Pat Smear join Nirvana?

Pat Smear had only joined the group in 1993 as a touring guitarist but immediately slotted in triumphantly with their line-up and has been a fixture alongside Dave Grohl in Foo Fighters since their incarnation.

Why didnt Krist join Foo Fighters?

In 1994, Grohl founded a new band, Foo Fighters. He and Novoselic decided against Novoselic joining; Grohl said it would have felt “really natural” for them to work together again, but would have been uncomfortable for the other band members and placed more pressure on Grohl.