Back in the mid-80s, Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear’s music career was in danger of petering out. His band, influential LA punk crew Germs, had split up a few years before and, maybe because that’s what you do when you grow up in the shadow of the Hollywood sign, he decided to try his hand at acting instead.
Getting mostly bit parts or work as an extra, he had minor roles in Blade Runner, Howard The Duck, the cop show CHiPs, medical drama Quincy, M.E. and more. But the greatest moment of Pat Smear’s acting career that never was came in a music video, when the guitarist was hand-picked to be an extra in the video for Prince’s Raspberry Beret by the Purple One himself.
