Pat is always smiling, I mean in every interview i saw him he is just happy. Nice guy!

@James32297

3 жыл бұрын

@Anthony Hernandez he has a wife and kids..

@Filterite5

3 жыл бұрын

@@James32297 hes bi

@quinntara20

3 жыл бұрын

Sure cause smiling 😃 means you'd never commit suicide. Dymbassz

@atrainofthought99

3 жыл бұрын

@Josh Stocks that was when he was young. I felt that he has grown out of it.

@Raw-guitar

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't he bi.

Somehow this guy has kept it together through 2 TRAGIC suicides from 2 of the most important frontmen that he played in bands with in the history of Punk. The Germs were part of the birth of punk and Nirvana was part of the tail end of the 2nd wave of punk and obviously the band who REALLY brought punk to the masses. An unbelievably important musician with a life surrounded by horrible tragedy and he keeps it going. What an inspiration.

@marlboroughdane5078

4 жыл бұрын

Nirvana Was Grunge. Not Punk.

@steveshomo5202

4 жыл бұрын

@@marlboroughdane5078 and here we have someone who doesn't get it.

@roywhiteo5

4 жыл бұрын

@@marlboroughdane5078 grunge was punk

@stewwart6060

4 жыл бұрын

Dylan Dane Trisler wrong big guy

@bulentbaran4563

3 жыл бұрын

He has to survive buddy that' s why...

He's been in more influencing bands than anyone else I've ever seen and hes still so underrated

Honest to God one of my favorite musicians ever!

Always loved Pat in Nirvana. Would have loved to see what could have come from another album with Pat on guitar.

@xxx7917

2 жыл бұрын

Go and listen to the germs then

@alexcrowley2635

2 жыл бұрын

Look up Do Ri Me, it was a rough recording practice of a composition written by Kurt, we know it was either his last or second to last. It was in March 1994, with Smear, Cobain, and Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson. (I recommend listening with lyrics because it’s a bit hard to hear but in context of his death, it’s pretty dark.)

@Weensx

2 жыл бұрын

Literally get the germs g.i. or check out the albums with foo.

@paulholmaniii9691

Жыл бұрын

I told Kurt where to find Pat at the SST super store at the Winterland show '91.

You can’t help but love Pat Smear.

Someone needs to get pat on a podcast give us a hour or 2 interview with the legend

Good interview, it's nice how he gets straight to the point in answering the question making it truly fascinating.

that description should list like 7 more bands not just Foo Fighters. Germs, Nirvana, RHCP, Death Folk, Birds of Satan, 45 Grave, Adolescents......

@cosmonauthal7651

5 жыл бұрын

Wait Pat was part of Adolescents?! That’s fucking awesome!

@dannygromfin4102

2 жыл бұрын

@@cosmonauthal7651 I saw him play with the Adolescents in 1981 after Rikk Agnew left. I don't think he was in the band for more than a few months.

@dannygromfin4102

2 жыл бұрын

I also saw him play in Twisted Roots!

This is so fascinating. The little story needs to be told like that, by people close, who lived it. When you’re 16 in France, you don’t have a single clue. But it’s so great to hear about it, thanks for sharing ♥️

Omg, he is so sweet

I can't believe he's 60.

@anitasseo

3 жыл бұрын

No he's not. Is he!?

@tk-hf4oz

3 жыл бұрын

He also looked like 20 years old in Live & Loud. He was what, 33 back then?

@muralist_

3 жыл бұрын

@@anitasseo He sure is.

@GregoryMorales-uo6ze

3 жыл бұрын

@@tk-hf4oz He was actually 34 at Live N Loud. A 34year old lookin like a 20 year old dang!

@morgellon9449

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I remember last year I was reading about My Bloody Valentine and couldn't believe Belinda Butcher was 59. She still is, apparently. Only two years younger than Pat Smear! He's 61, now, of course.

"Wow, you can do that! But we never did." I love that line.

You can pass lots of time listening to Pat, always an enjoyable story.

He's a good dude. Love Pat Smear, he is a legend.

Total legend!

pat is a gem

Pat seems like a really positive guy.

If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame operated as it should operate, I think Pat Smear would have the most inductions out of anyone.

@Mr.Swankly

Жыл бұрын

Someone should seriously create one a real RnR HOF for people like Rowland S Howard, Smear, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, etc.

Great musician, always with a discreet profile, he is very nice, friendly I saw him with Foo in Lollapalooza-Argentina this year.

His last comments made me think of the compilation album “This is Boston, not LA”

@indiglo1971

3 жыл бұрын

There is a song on there called 'Slam' by Decadence. It was used in Mtv's infamous Santa the Slam Dancer video.

Pat Smear is a legand 🤘

I LOVE PAT SMEAR

Love this dude.

Pat is awesome!

Pat Smear cool dude and good interview 🎤

Pat Smear is the true legend here, he's in 3 legendary bands : >Germs >Nirvana >Foo Fighter

@MrMookRecords

2 жыл бұрын

Germs .. maybe. Nirvana .. definitely Food Fighters... debatable

@fiendclub138

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMookRecords lmao legit just about any punk icon you ask about the germs they know them.. they are credited as one of the first hard core punk bands as well. definitely not “maybe”

@MrMookRecords

Жыл бұрын

@@fiendclub138 well now, you're presuming I don't know about Germs. So you fall at the first hurdle. It's my opinion that they ain't as legendary (even though they WERE great) as say Sun City Girls, Minor Threat, Wire, Swell Maps etc in terms of impact. His role in Nirvana was negligible. Foo Fighters suck ass.

@lukesteiner8934

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrMookRecordswhether you like the foo fighters music or not you can't dent that they are huge and have been since '97 with The Color and the Shape

Always loved pay. He had a crazy life... The germs. Nirvana the foo fighters. C'mon this person is amazing!! They should do a doc on him

Really loves him on those Spy Kids movies

A national treasure here !

You gotta love pat.

I just love him

Lucky I got to see Pat play with Nirvana & Foo Fighters! He's the SHIT!

I remember when Pat worked at SST on Sunset and Larrabee in LA! Damn I’m old!

Pat went from being interviewed on a small, independent film no one ever paid attention to to being interviewed by the Kennedy Center! Yes!

Pat Smear is such a treasure. He’s an absolute icon and there needs to be a book about him. I feel like he’s been way too overlooked even though he’s contributed to so much punk culture and he deserves better.

pat and the germs, relevant. they rocked....f

Legend.

Fuckin love pat smear

miss seeing you around that weird outdoor mall on sunset and crescent heights. i dont go there anymore haha maybe you dont either. id always visit a friend that worked at sam ash and i swear you were always there

Fanzine was our way Laisse FAIRE i still have that album DC WAS SO INTELLECTUAL BANDS WISE

Nicest guy ever, he proyects that also in stage!

He is the bestest. We luv Pat.

Pat Smear gave one of the best one-liners when asked why they named their band The Germs: "Because we make you sick..... isn't it obvious?"

I fucking love this guy

I forgot what his voice sounded like until watching this video

I wish Darby made it. He wrote such great songs. I would of loved for him to write a book, and seen what else he did in life

I like your shirt, Pat. I want one like it. Where do they sell them at?

Pat seems like such a nice guy. I bet if he wasn’t a rockstar he would counsel kids.

pat smear is a damn beast

pat ❤️

Pat is so cool

Pat smear is the greatest guy on the planet. Legend.

I just happened upon this video and it is so true. If you were in a crap town you couldn't believe Thrasher existed when you saw it. I still hav a zine my friends put out 30 years ago and I don't even know how they found the technology.

Where is the rest of the interview

check out his solo album from the 80s.

everybody loves pat.

THE GeRMS!!!

He's much nicer than I thought he'd be.

How did you hear about it without a cellphone and Facebook and crap to see your likes and crap? I'm glad we did this pre computer and before all the social media crap.

Pap Smear ftw

Pat!

"we probably weren't very influential in those scenes" in 1980 kids from new York and DC were wearing home made germs shirts but i I dont known before that

@ericks9979

5 жыл бұрын

Thats cool!

the Germs!!! still kickass music

That guy seems very cool.

PS is the best

I cannot think in a person who has been part of three influential bands, just Pat he is the only one I guess

@mj.l

5 жыл бұрын

johnny thunders? niel young? eric clapton? heaps of people, really...

@carlosg.4531

4 жыл бұрын

mjl jajajja thats its true...this guy sihijo thinks pat smear was a great musician...

@ko0974

2 жыл бұрын

Mike mcCreddy

He’s the Buddha of punk/grunge/rocknroll, very friendly happy looking dude 😊

if you read newspapers you also knew there was a country-wide scene or even on tv you saw a bit

why is this two minutes and not two hours?

Nirvana is probably the band with the nicest members

I had a great mix tape in 82/83 ...90 min of hardcore hell (bunch of LA bands /B/flag,circle jerks tsol ,dead KENNEDYSect...)...frkn awesome punk music ...like bootlegs and boom box recordings ,,,maybe some 4tk stuff...dam ,wish I still had it

🤗 hugs and 😚 kisses to pat smear nice Guy and person.

Pat Smear has been Nirvana, too! Some times people forget, it seems

@ziggysmom5646

3 жыл бұрын

What I want to know is why it's not mentioned that he was a member of Nirvana tho...

pat.

*Diego Maradona on the early punk scene

I remember back in 1996 or 97 when he announced he was leaving Foo Fighters, I thought he was gay and had AIDS. Wow, was I totally wrong

#KingPat

Yes sir, that’s exactly what it was like.

Pat is cool as hell. I heard he was really into "prog" bands like YES back in the early punk days. That was forbidden where I come from. If you were into the punk scene you were required to be at perpetual war against anything and everything NOT PUNK.

I hate to say it, because I love Darby Crash, but junkies don't travel much. I'm sure Pat knows that by now.

Massachusetts had some killer bands. Check out Siege, Deep Wound, Outpatients, and of course, Gang Green. :)

@ericks9979

5 жыл бұрын

SSD! For real though my favorite punk scene will always be SoCal, but Boston fucking threw down!

@ds9mm

4 жыл бұрын

Slapshot

We were only 16 PEOPLE We thought we so old Looking back just kids Vandura across the COUNTRY punk was hard..we so poor we all want in for free

Fun fact... Find Pat in Prince Raspberry Beret video he's in there

@urdad9853

3 жыл бұрын

R u sure that's Pat....I found what ur talking about but how do u know that's him

@danielstoddart

8 ай бұрын

@@urdad9853 It's him. He was hired as an extra in the video. He's sitting on the platform in front of the piano Lisa (of Wendy & Lisa fame) is playing. He's dressed in white and he has dreadlocks. Check it out.

@urdad9853

8 ай бұрын

LMAO yup it's Pat.....@@danielstoddart

Germs ->> direct influence on ->> Poison Idea ... like 5 years later after Darby 😎

Anyone else spot "Scnene" in the thumbnail? 😂

@adambrammeld9286

6 жыл бұрын

Lucy H yep first thing i noticed haha

Germs Black Flag Bad Brains it was fun!

@flyingburritobro68

3 жыл бұрын

And the most important LA punk band X

He won a lottery of sorts jesus

The 90s man...word of mouth..can we go back to that?

Don’t forget Darby crash was a punk god

Not many people have been in 3 influential bands: Death Folk, Nina Hagen Band, Twisted Roots.

Three bands three tragedies ... pats a real tough guy making it thru that and still smiling ... you rock pat ...

This interview is as short as any punk song.

the only guy in the world who can't cover my 6 in a fight that I'll carry out

Pap Smear

“Yeah, you’re our closest punk scene so we hate you, lol.” I guess it’s a punk thing. LMAO

I always wondered if Pat Smear is gay. He's got those friendly eyes:)

@Cahin-ic1ej

7 жыл бұрын

Jason S. wtf?

@jamesgretsch4894

6 жыл бұрын

No he's not at all.

@televisedpork7993

6 жыл бұрын

Jason S., don’t judge a book by its cover

@exeuroweenie

6 жыл бұрын

Pat Smear is just Pat Smear.I'm sure he was even before the Germ's inception.

@johnrotten3268

5 жыл бұрын

Dude is Bi.

He sounds a little like Matty Matheson

I remember back in 1983 or 84 the Nazi skins would come from Chicago to our city and start shit. It was always a pain in the ass. We just wanted to hear music and get in the pit. I really miss those days.

You know I sometimes wonder how many of the original Punk Rock bands were really "Punk Rock" because there were a lot of rules put up on what is Punk Rock and what isn't and those original Punk Rock bands didn't always heed to those rules themselves. So what are those rules about what is and what is not Punk Rock? 1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god. 2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better. 3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap shitty instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here. 4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away. 5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert. 6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason. So having mentioned all those rules, let's see which ones were followed to the letter and which ones were not by the original Punk Rock bands. 1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god. Very few Punk Rock bands actually sang it like they lived it. The Sex Pistols for example were art students, The Clash' Joe Strummer had his life in order, in fact the only Punk Rock song I can think off from the top of my head which told it like they lived it was "Boredom" by the Buzzcocks. 2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better. Fast and loud was a rule that all Punk Rock bands gladly complied to. But Proficiency on their instrument was more important than they proclaimed it was. Listen to "Nevermind the bollocks" and hear how tight and well rehearsed Steve Jones and Paul Cook were. Or listen to "London Calling" and hear how the Clash were evolving musically with Paul Simonon and Mick Jones having mastered their instruments and bringing in self written songs. And what about Nina Hagen, the princess of Punk Rock had a classical training as an Opera singer and her band consisted of seasoned professionals, also listen to a song like "Natur träne" and hear how intricate the music on that song was and that it is slow, dragging and intense. John Lydon (That's Johnny Rotten, mate) said that Punk Rock as the Pistols were playing it was in his opinion "Too Conventional" he envisioned Punk Rock to be dissonant, harsh, unlistenable. He manifested his true vision with PiL which again had very good musicians in their ranks. 3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap shitty instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here. Steve Shelley of the Buzzcocks' best known instrument was a crappy Japanese made guitar with the top half broken off. But as soon as he could afford to buy himself a better guitar he did just that. Ditching that cracked guitar for a Gibson Marauder. It was the same with the other Punk Rock bands, Mick Jones of the Clash and Steve Jones (No relation) of the Sex Pistols both favored Gibson Les Paul Customs and even back then that was an expensive and fancy guitar, top of the range of Gibson electrics. Punk bass players favored the Rickenbacker 4001 Bass for its biting, rattling "Clank" sound and the Fender Precision bass for its deep "Punch" (Think J.J. Burnell on The Strangles' "No More Heroes") both those basses being proven workhorses and certainly not cheap. And look at the backlines: Fender and Marshall stacks, you couldn't buy those if you were on the dole... 4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away. Ask Plastic Bertrand what it was like being a fake punk. NOBODY took him seriously Certainly not when it came out that he never even sang on his songs. "Ca plan pour moi merde" But "White Punks on dope" by the Tubes was accepted as a punk rock anthem while the song itself was meant to be a spoof on Glam Rock, making fun of bands like T-Rex and Alice Cooper. 5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert.. Just with any grassroots movement, where word of mouth is the way to spread the word around on where Punk Rock bands were playing, the bands would tell other bands what a good venue was, who they should check out and they would often lend backlines to the other bands, so they didn't need to sound check in between performances, it s a Dog-eat-dog world united they stood tall. 6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason. Pete Townshend once ran into John Lydon and Paul Cook and being totally into what Punk Rock was about apologized to them about having become a Rock Dinosaur. At which Lydon went "No, not at all, we really love the 'Oo." a Point proven by the fact that the Sex Pistols played "Substitute" live. Also old rockers such as "Summertime Blues" and "Come on everybody" by Eddie Cochran were firm live favorite shows that Punk not only accepted where the roots came from but also sang their praises. And I haven't even mentioned Sid Vicious' version of "My way..." So was Punk Rock really all that it claimed it was? The interesting part of the story was that the Post-punk era was much closer to what Punk Rock was setting itself up to be. I already mentioned Public Image Limited, but New wave bands like The Cure and Joy Division but also ska bands like The Specials adopted the "sing it like you live it" mantra."Message to you Rudy" and "Ghost Town" by the Specials accurately showed the bleak late seventies Britain. In the USA, Hardcore bands took the mantra of no proficiency needed at playing your instrument to heart, bands like Fear, Big Black, The Germs and Shellac had no experience and didn't even bother to tune their guitars. Again in Hardcore and new wave crappy instruments were used, Japanese made copy guitars bought in pawnshops were firm favorites because of them being affordable. Robert Smith of the Cure recorded "Three Imaginary boys" on a crappy plywood Woolworths top twenty guitar and didn't switch to playing Fender jazzmasters until the producer pushed a wad of cash in his hands and begged him to buy a better guitar. Pat Smear during the entire time that The Germs existed didn't even OWN a guitar, always relying on loaners to play shows. In true punk rock style, when Smear joined Nirvana, he sold his guitars to afford the plane ticket to Seattle, at which Kurt Cobain told him "Don't worry, we have a deal with Fender, I'll hook you up." and a few days after Joining Smear was given three brand new Fender guitars that he continues playing to this day. But being completely disillusioned by what Punk Rock became in very little time, it became a fashion, corporate firms began to run with it, the whole "Voice of the angry young man" was taken out, Malcolm McLaren brought out "the Rock N Roll" swindle" movie, And letś not forget that THE punk rock club CBGBś is now a clothing store and a restaurant in JFK airport. John Lydon made a statement at the Final Sex Pistols show which sums it all up... "Ever felt like you've been cheated?"

@ChristianVBlue3

8 жыл бұрын

You forgot one rule of punk rock... "Not giving a fuck about rules!!!"

@cellardoor199991

7 жыл бұрын

Punk rock is the most full of shit, hypocritical thing there is. That fact that they are rules proves that Punks are hypocrites. Not to mention that punks all look and act the same and think alike. Every Punk I've met is an Atheist and radical Leftist. I'm including myself when I was one. I grew up.

@MotorStorm66

7 жыл бұрын

RastaSaiyaman you forgot the first rule: never talk about punk rock

@JasonVoorheeTalkShow

6 жыл бұрын

MR.X nah dude. You didn’t grow up, you just got old. You were jaded with the punk scene, so you settled into the status quo? That just tells me you got too tired to be a rebel and decided to shut up and stick it out with a 9 to 5 job in bitter silence until you die. Enjoy the rest of your life dude, i pity you.

@cosmonauthal7651

5 жыл бұрын

Rule number 7: There are not rules.