Pat Smear

Georg "Pat Smear" Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), is a guitarist who was a touring member of Nirvana and a part of the original Foo Fighters line up. He left Foo Fighters after the touring in support of The Colour and The Shape. He rejoined the band years later as a touring musician and eventually Foo Fighters asked him back and they became a 5 piece for the first time.

Discography

With The Germs

• Forming/Sexboy (1977)
• Lexicon Devil (1978)
• (GI) (1979)
• The Decline of Western Civilization Soundtrack (1980)
• What We Do Is Secret (1981)
• Live at the Whisky, First Show Ever (1981)
• Germicide (1985)
• Germs (MIA) - The Complete Anthology (1993)

With 45 Grave

• Black Cross/Wax (1981)
• With Twisted Roots Pretentiawhat (1981)
• Solo Ruthensmear (1987)
• So You Fell in Love with a Musician... (1992)

With Deathfolk

• Deathfolk (1989)
• Deathfolk II (1992)

With Nirvana

• MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
• From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996)
• Nirvana (2002)
• With the Lights Out (2004)

With Mike Watt

• Ball-Hog or Tugboat? (1995)

With Foo Fighters

• The Colour and the Shape (1997)
• Skin and Bones (2006)
• Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)
• Wasting Light (2011)
• Sonic Highways (2014)
• Saint Cecilia (2015)
• Concrete and Gold (2017)

With theHell

• Southern Medicine (2013)

With Paul McCartney

• Cut Me Some Slack (2012)