Pat Smear
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Birth Name: Georg Albert Ruthenberg
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: August 5, 1959
Ethnicity:
*father – German
*mother – African American, possibly Native American
Pat Smear is an American musician. He is a guitarist for rock band Foo Fighters. Other members of the band are/have been Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, and Rami Jaffee.
Pat also played for Germs and toured with Nirvana.
His father was German. His mother was African-American, and was also said to have Native American ancestry.
Wow thought he was like west european of something. Interesting.
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in “Nirvana: True Story” by Everett True he is described as having Cherokee and German Jewish ancestry.