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Pat Smear
Los Angeles, United States
Pat Smear is credited on 314 releases across 120 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
314
Pressings credited
120
Albums
6
Decades active
1,528
In collections
Biography
Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by his stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician and since 2010 has been a guitarist for Foo Fighters. He was the lead guitarist and co-founder of Los Angeles–based punk band The Germs and a rhythm guitarist for Nirvana (which he joined as a touring guitarist in 1993). After Nirvana disbanded following the death of frontman Kurt Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl went on to form Foo Fighters, with Smear joining on guitar. Smear left the band in 1997 before rejoining as a touring guitarist in 2005 and being promoted back to a full-time member in 2010.
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Credited work
314 releases · 120 albums · active 1977–2025
- Performance · 537
- Other credits · 8
- Engineering · 8
- Production · 4
Studios: Whisky A Go Go · Palaghiaccio · Hong Kong Cafe · Sony Music Studios, New York City
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
MTV Unplugged In New York
1994
In Utero
1993
The Colour And The Shape
1997
Nirvana
2002
Wasting Light
2011
Sonic Highways
2014
But Here We Are
2023
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
2007
From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
1996
Concrete And Gold
2017
Medicine At Midnight
2020
Saint Cecilia EP
2015
Skin And Bones
2006
Sound City - Real To Reel
2013
Hail Satin
2021
With The Lights Out
2004
Medium Rare
2011
Live And Loud
2013
Your Favorite Toy
2026
(GI)
1979
Sliver (The Best Of The Box)
2005
(MIA) The Complete Anthology
1993
Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?
1995
XXII II MCMXCIV
1994
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