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w/Loudermilk, Pris
Thurs March 13, 8 pm, $10, (all ages).
Stranger Personals
"This project was just based on making something we like," explains Pat Wilson with a laugh. "If something happens with it, then cool. It's like the fourth-grade advice that you get: 'Just do what you love!'"
Wilson, founder and one half of the Special Goodness, has taken that advice to heart. While his day job as Weezer's drummer can be demanding, he's managed to record a new full-length by way of his side project. The Goodness' latest, Land Air Sea, is a pop/rock record with a mixture of influences (claiming everything from the Smiths to Nirvana as a source of inspiration)--with, of course, the undeniable Weezer sound chiming in now and again.
The Special Goodness has been Wilson's project since 1996, but it has only recently taken shape the way he'd hoped. After recording his first full-length in 1996 (which was released in Japan in 1998), Wilson still felt the Special Goodness wasn't completely clicking into place.
"I totally romanticized getting my friends involved in the band," he says. "If anyone's thinking about doing that, it's a huge mistake. I should've been more critical with what was going on, because it just wasn't working."
That is until he met Atom Willard (former drummer for Rocket from the Crypt) not long after Willard had decided to leave Rocket.
"Atom and I got together and I was thinking everything had to be in place in order to proceed, so I asked Mikey [Welsh] to join us.... But Mikey wasn't that into it, so I recorded what came to be known as The Pinecone Record. It was a web-only type of thing. I think that was a big mistake. I should've realized, 'Hey, Atom's my guy and I should just take things as they go and not worry about it.'"
With the kinks now worked out, Wilson's happy with the current status of just him and Willard being the only permanent members (they both play everything but bass, and have a touring bassist).
"Everything happened a lot faster [than we thought]," he says of the current tour. "We didn't know what to expect, but it's cool. It makes me happy. It's all gravy to me now."
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