Pat Smear could enter the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but …

Last week, during the concert of Foo Fighters at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California, Dave Grohl he told a funny anecdote, dating back to the early nineties, on the attempt of Red Hot Chili Peppers to recruit what is the guitarist of the Foo Fighters, Pat Smear.

In a break between a song and the other, the group frontman addressed to the public looking at Smear said: “Pat, can I tell the story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers? There was a period in which the Red Hot Chili Peppers were looking for a guitarist and called Pat to see if he wanted to play in their band. And he in practice said: ‘Yes, if you stop playing funk. Let’s play funk music. “

The 66 -year -old
Pat Smear
whose real name is
Georg Albert Ruthenberg
he is a guitarist whose musical roots sink in the punk scene of Los Angeles. He was one of the founding members of the historic punk band of
Germ
in the late 1970s. Smear played as guitarist with the
Nirvana
– who had Grohl on drums – During their tour in support of the album
“In uterus” (read the review here)
In 1993-1994. After the end of the
Nirvana
following the suicide of
Kurt Cobain
,
He entered Foo Fighters
Of
Dave Grohl
.