Pat Smear Have Lost Darby Crash And Kurt Cobain, Smear Trauma From Being In a Band??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Smear 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 enrolled him in 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. At age 13 he left home to join a commune, Later he attended Innovative Program School an alternative school within University High School in Los Angeles. It was there 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, He also stated that all the guitar playing of John McKay on Siouxsie and the Banshees's first album really inspired me and that Yes guitarist Steve Howe is the best guitarist ever. As a teenager in 1976 Smear and Darby Crash formed the Germs with bassist Lorna Doom and drummer Dottie Danger. Smear was the only band member who had any musical knowledge or proficiency at the time, 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. Carlisle was soon replaced by Don Bolles, and in 1979 the band released their first album GI, produced by Joan Jett. The record is now regarded as a milestone in the history of punk rock with Smear earning praise for his guitar work. The Germs along with Smear appeared in the punk documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, directed by Penelope Spheeris. Darby Crash died before the film was released leading to the band breaking up. Following the demise of the Germs, Smear played in 1981 with the ex Screamers keyboardist Paul Roessler and his sister Kira Roessler in Twisted Roots. Although short lived, the band was the toast of the Hollywood punk scene, He also had a brief stint as a member of punk band the Adolescents in 1981. Smear was briefly in deathrock band 45 Grave with Don Bolles, During this stint they recorded a 7 titled Black Cross and other tracks that would later appear on 45 Grave's 1987 compilation album Autopsy. Smear recorded and mixed a cover of Circle One in December 1992 with Courtney Love on vocals and bass, Smear and Eric Erlandson on guitar and Patty Schemel on drums. A 7 inch vinyl was released under the name The Holez in 1993, The cover later appeared on the compilation album A Small Circle of Friends in 1996. 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. At first Smear thought his friend Carlos Cake Nunez was pranking 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 1993, He toured with Nirvana for about six months. Smear appeared 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.
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Pat certainly has paid his dues and has earned his place in Punk/Rock history!!
The title of this video gave me a stroke
He lost Taylor Hawkins too. I saw pat with Nirvana in November '93.
That's awesome tbh.
Where was this show and anything you'd like to share please?
@@mega5k It was late November, the Sunday after Thanksgiving 1993, at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida about 40 minutes south west of Orlando. The show was general admission and the venue held about 8000 people, a pretty small place by some standards. There was space for a couple thousand people on the floor with seats around the perimeter on 3 sides.
The Breeders opened and we're supporting their single "Cannonball". One of the ladies from The Breeders was wearing a shin length reddish colored skirt.
I was with my girlfriend (now wife) and another friend and we were just about in the dead center of the floor, which also served as an ice rink so the floor was covered with a layer of plywood to cover the ice.
We were standing around having a couple of beers and smoking joints when my friend left to take a leak. I told him, "hurry up they're (Nirvana) gonna come out soon". He left to the back of the arena where the bathrooms were and a few minutes later I saw him walking towards us through the crowd. I raised my hand to wave him to where we were just as the lights went out and I didn't see him for the rest of the show.
The show was insanity. I remember almost nothing of it except there was a fourth person on stage with Nirvana. It was Pat Smear although nobody knew this at the time because there was no internet, or social media, or personal computers or smart phones so his being on stage was a surprise. At first I thought it was the girl from The Breeders because Pat was wearing the reddish, shin length skirt I mentioned before.
Being in that crowd was like being a cork floating in the ocean. The crowd pushed left, right, forward and back and we flowed with it. If you fell, you were dead. My girl did fall and skinned her knee on the wood that covered the floor, she still has a faint scar (I just asked her, she still has it).
I couldn't tell you what songs they played except Heart Shaped Box, Kurt throwing his guitar into the air and the figure from the cover of In Utero in the background. It was mayhem.
The show ended, I met up with my friend, ran into a couple other people I knew who sat in the seats that surrounded the floor, and found out they got really baked before the show and one of them fell asleep and missed EVERYTHING!
While watching MTV some time later, it was mentioned Pat Smear was touring with them.
Pat Smear.... Pat Smear.... Where did I know that name? Turns out when I was in high school in the early/mid 1980's, I hung out with some kids who were REALLY into punk rock and one of the dudes used to work at a record store and he had everything. Minutemen, Screwdriver, The Cramp, The Germs.... The Germs... Pat Smear!
Kurt was gone shortly after that and Dave started Foo Fighters and the rest history.
I have followed Pat since the Germs. He has had his share of heartache... He not only Lost Darby and Kurt... But also later he lost his Germs band mate and close friend Lorna Doom, then after that Taylor Hawkins...
Then taylor too
He got smeared 😂😂
And he crashed