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Marital Status: Married to a very nice woman named Jen. Sometimes she goes on tour with Weezer. If you see her, be sure to say hi to her.

Albums which he Appears on:
Weezer: Self Titled (drums and partial songwriting)1994
The Rentals: Return of the Rentals(drums)1995
Weezer: Pinkerton(drums)1996
The Special Goodness: Self Titled 1999(everything)
Weezer: The Green Album 2001
The Special Goodness: At Some Point, Birds and Flowers Became Interesting 2001

Other known bands:
Bush:(no, not the Bush you're thinking of... Pat's not British and he doesn't suck like that Bush does) This Bush formed around '89 or 90. Zoom, Rivers band from Connecticut (formerly Avant Guarde) broke up. A bummed Rivers meets Pat Finn and Pat Wilson, who are playing in "Bush" with Tom Gardocki, later of Wax. Rivers has been writing new heavy very un-zoom like songs and recruits Wilson for drums. They go though a few bassists and play like 2 shows as "Fuzz" later some Fuzz songs are practiced as Weezer but all are dropped early on. Meanwhile both Pats are also playing in "The Dum Dums", a punk/glam/freaky sunset strip band. It is entirely intended and taken as a joke.
60 Wrong Sausages:(sometimes with band names it's better not to ask and to simply smile and nod) Around summer-nov 91: Pat Finn discovers Jason Cropper in Northern California (probably nude playing a banjo on a giant toadstool), convinces him to go to LA; Finn, Cropper, Wilson, start "60 Wrong Sausages", soon recruit the listless, songwriting, somewhat unsure Rivers Cuomo. Rivers contributes some absolutely hilarious songs to the funk/punk/???/heavy shit mix. (titles include: "tennis ball" "the barnaby jones" "been gi" (pronounced ben gay)....15 practices and one show (Thanksgiving 91) later, its over.
Suburban Advantage: Pat Wilson's first "I'm gonna do my own thing too" thing. There was a demo which was about 8 songs, and was just Pat with a drum machine (a Dr. Rhythm set on tr-808 sounds!), recorded in the 'ol garage I think in 93-4 or so...somehow about 3 of these songs got out (yes "If You Move Away" being one of them, "Let's go to the Mall" and "New Wave Lullaby" being the other two) and are being traded and such. Later, Pat started over and called it "Huge Guy", new and revised songs on some new and revised demos. Later still, it got renamed again, to "the Special Goodness", and the tracks that were later released as his current/new self titled japan/Vast cd were recorded up in Portland..... and of course later still hes got band members and shows and plans and everything.

Thanks to Karl for all this extensice Pat/Weezer history. This can be viewed in much much greater detail at Karl's Corner

Pat's ancient and very out of date auto-bio and some words about Weezer:
"My name is Patrick Wilson and I play drums for Weezer. As I write this on a friday morning, I''m listening to our CD. It's a good feeling, but very strange. Four years ago I was a guy with a bad haircut from Buffalo, New York. The music scene there is lame, consisting largely of cover bands and bad metal. It seems that musicians in small towns have a gunslinger attitude that is also faintly bitter. Some of them just have attitude. I decided to quit my day job and move out to Los Angeles with my new friend Pat Finn (Pat is responsible for us knowing each other. He currently fronts an amazing band named Winklier in Buffalo). After many growing pains, Weezer was formed. Since then, I've tried to understand what it means to be in a band. All I know about music is instinctual or from record; I haven't witnessed much live music. As far as I can tell, being in a band can be just as important as any other occupation-- and so far its far more rewarding. We recorded with Rik Ocasek and Chris Shaw at Electric Lady in NY. I loved the experience and feel honored to have worked with them, The record sounds the way it does because the drums aren't the loudest thing in the mix. Some how, Phil Collins' style of recording has taken over, and we didn't want that. The only effects used are fuzz bass on "In the Garage" and a little compression here and there. Certainly not as much as the put on Ringo. Our live show is different from the record in terms of sheer power, so c'mon out when we roll through yer town. Thanks for listening."

My favorite Pat Quote: "I am awash in a sea of non-sass"

Interesting Pat Fact: He used to sell dog shampoo overthe phone with Matt Sharp.