Patrick Wilson

At 55 years old, Patrick Wilson has this physical status:

Patrick George Wilson (born February 1, 1969) 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 released thirteen studio albums. Wilson appears in Weezer and The Special Goodness, his own band.

Personal life

Wilson married Jennifer Wilson in 1994 and they had two sons, Charlie, born in 2004, and Ian Patrick, born in early 2008. Jennifer died after a battle with cancer in August 2013. Patrick married Camille Wilson in February 2015. Cruz, their son, was born in 2016. They live in Southern California. Patrick was also featured in episode 82 of MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte's Weekly Mac Podcast.

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Career

Patrick Wilson was born in Buffalo, New York, on February 1, 1969, and raised in nearby Clarence. He was introduced to music early in his life, purchasing Barry Manilow's 1976 album This One's for You for the first time. He attended his first concert shortly after his fifteenth birthday, including Van Halen. As a result, he was inspired to start learning drum lessons. Wilson and his buddy Greg Czarnecki began teaching the instrument by his senior year at Clarence High School, eventually graduating over 30 students.

Wilson attended a local college for a brief time after graduating from high school in 1987, but after that, he dropped out after one semester. "College is such rubbish," he said. Too much politics and jockeying for sway. I couldn't do it, but I was too young to do it. College is great if you want to learn, but it isn't about making your professor happy and receiving good grades, and getting into IBM that is. Any place that claims that college graduates are the only place I'm really interested in being."

Wilson, a growing tired of the local music scene, and at the behest of a friend, Patrick Finn, Wilson migrated to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Wilson arrived in Los Angeles just short of joining Bush (not Gavin Rossdale's Bush). Wilson met future Weezer bass player Matt Sharp, with whom he developed a friendship while in Bush. Wilson formed a band with Patrick Finn in 1991, and then Sixty Wrong Sausages was born.

Wilson was also in another band with Future Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, Fuzz, which dissolved within three months. "I had met Matt Sharp the first time and we were trying to figure out what to do." We had a lot of passion and passion for certain genres of music, but we didn't know how it would translate into what we'd do. So we met Rivers, 'He's got an 8-track, let's get with him,' – and we convinced him to move into this apartment with us. On a song for him, rivers were just getting to write songs, and he asked me to play drums on a song for him. With this female bass player, this girl bassist turned it into a band called Fuzz. That was cool, but it had to die."

Sharp took a trip north to Berkeley in 1991 to pursue what Karl Koch described as "some sort of symphonic keyboard sequencing music." Other members of the band have been relocated to separate apartments. Wilson appeared in a variety of bands, including The Dum Dums and United Dirt, during this period. Cuomo, Wilson, and Cropper would reunite in a band named Sixty Wrong Sausages with Patrick Finn. Matt Sharp would later replace Finn after Sixty Wrong Sausages broke up in late 1991. Wilson and Cuomo started the "50 song project" in which they committed to writing 50 new songs. "Undone—The Sweater Song," "My Name Is Jonas," "Life Has Turned and Left Me Here," and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" will be among the Weezer songs to be released.

Sharp reunited with his former bandmates Cuomo, Wilson, and Cropper in January 1992, and Wilson displayed him material from his and Cuomo's "50 song project." Sharp was content with the information and moved to Los Angeles to join the band, which now goes by the name Weezer.

Wilson has three song co-writing credits on Weezer songs, including "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here," "My Name is Jonas" and solo writing credits on "Automatic" and "In the Mall," in addition to his drum duties. On "Automatic," he also has lead vocal/lead guitar duties. Rivers Cuomo and Pat Wilson have co-written much more songs together, including "Lemonade" (unveiled on Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo) and "Lullaby For Wayne) (both on The Blue Album).

Wilson's amusing stunts on skateboards, scooters, and bicycles have been filmed and posted on Weezer's official website. Some of these videos can be seen on Weezer's DVD, Video Capture Device, which was released in 2004. Wilson can be heard playing guitar for Weezer on tour; in 2005, Wilson performed lead guitar and sang for the song "Photograph," which was immediately followed by him on tour by Blur's "Song 2."

Wilson wrote and performed lead vocals/guitar on "Automatic," Weezer's third self-titled album. The song was remixed by Los Angeles for the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue video game. Wilson also performed lead vocals on Red Album's "Life's What You Make It" (a Talk Talk cover), a psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way" (a Talk Talk Cover), and lead vocals in portions of Weezer's "Are 'Friend's Electric?" which he performed live with Weezer in 2005.

Wilson performed drums and sang lead vocals on "My Name is Jonas" and "Yester" and Pink Floyd's "Time"; Oasis' "Morning Glory" and "Morning Glory" and "Note"; and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" on Weezer's "Understanding Glory" and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" and "Morning Glory; and "Mo

Josh Freese played drums for Weezer on Weezer's 2009 tour, who also performed guitar for 90% of their set. Rivers Cuomo said he wanted to be more involved and mobile on stage, so Wilson renounced guitar and concentrated on songs that didn't require multiple guitar parts.

Wilson records and performs with his own band The Special Goodness, for which he writes songs, sings, and plays the majority of the instruments. Wilson has released several albums, and Wilson has performed on his website in the past.

Wilson played drums on The Rentals' first album Return of the Rents, but he never performed with the band, right after Weezer's debut.

Wilson and Weezer guitarist Brian Bell worked on a review of the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" for the 2006 film Factory Girl. Wilson and Bell were also small characters in the film as John Cale and Lou Reed, respectively.

Wilson has been an Executive Producer on the No Agenda podcast.

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