Biography

Patrick 'Pat' Wilson is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer and co-founding member of the alternative rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums. In addition to his work in Weezer, Wilson also fronts his own band, The Special Goodness. Patrick Wilson was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in nearby Clarence. He was introduced to music very early on in his life, making his first musical purchase of Barry Manilow's 1976 album This One's for You. Shortly after his fifteenth birthday he went to his first concert, seeing Van Halen. As a result, he was inspired to start taking drum lessons. By his senior year at Clarence High School, Wilson and his friend Greg Czarnecki began teaching the instrument, eventually amassing over 30 students. After graduating from high school in 1987, Wilson attended a local college briefly, dropping out after one semester. Growing tired of the local music scene, and at the urging of friend Pat Finn, Wilson at the age of 21 moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, he joined the short-lived band Bush (not Gavin Rossdale's Bush). While in Bush, Wilson met future Weezer bass player Matt Sharp, with whom he developed a friendship. Eventually by the spring of 1991, Wilson started a band with Patrick Finn, Matt Sharp, and later Jason Cropper called Sixty Wrong Sausages. Meanwhile, Wilson was also in another band with future Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo called Fuzz, which dissolved within three months. In 1992, Sharp reconnected with his former band-mates Cuomo, Wilson, and Cropper, and Wilson showed him material from his and Cuomo's '50 song project'. Sharp was pleased with the material and returned to Los Angeles to join the band, consisting of Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, and Jason Cropper, now under the name Weezer.