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-{{Featured article headline|[[MTV.com article - September 13, 2005]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Pat Finn]]}}
-The following is an excerpt from the MTV.com article "Are Weezer Calling It Quits?" from [[September 13]], [[2005]], by James Montgomery.
+[[Image:Pat Finn.jpg|150px|right|link=Pat Finn]]
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-[[Image:MTVarticle-20050913.jpg|150px|left|link=MTV.com article - September 13, 2005]]<font size=3>'''Are Weezer Calling It Quits?'''</font><br>
-They've been a band for more than 13 years, releasing five albums and winning over an army of overly devoted fans in the process. But all that could soon be a distant memory, because it looks like Weezer might never make another album again.
+'''Pat Finn''' is a Buffalo, NY born musician and artist who founded two pre-[[Weezer]] bands - [[Bush]] and [[60 Wrong Sausages]] - before pursuing a variety of other musical projects. He is the songwriter and lead vocalist behind [[Organic Mechanic]], and has been active in numerous bands in Buffalo, San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland Oregon, where he has lived since 1998. He introduced [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Pat Wilson]], [[Matt Sharp]], [[Jason Cropper]] and [[Karl Koch]] to each other.
-Last week, MTV News spoke to the band before the launch of its co-headlining tour with the Foo Fighters (see [[MTV.com article - September 9, 2005|"Weezer, Foos Bring Arena-Rock Spectacle To Foozer (WeeFighters?) Tour Kickoff"]]), and the guys were more than candid about a whole host of subjects, including the fact that ''Make Believe'' could very well be their final LP.
+In 1988 Pat moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco, and attended the Musicians Institute. There he met fellow students [[Matt Sharp]] as well as (among others) Dave "Burdie Cutlass" Georgeff and Tom "Soda Pop" Gardocki, later members of [[Wax]]. After, he returned to Buffalo, NY and stayed there from Summer 1989 - Spring 1990, woodshedding songs and working random jobs, regrouping his plans. While living in Buffalo he met [[Patrick Wilson]], who was working at a music store called Music Mart in the suburb of Amherst, giving drum lessons to youngsters. In March [[1990]], Finn moved to Los Angeles, and implored Wilson to come with him. Wilson has stated that he knew he had no prospects in the Buffalo area, and was eager to get his music career started, so he instantly and without hesitation accepted Finn's offer, despite having no plan, few possessions, and almost no money. Soon, Finn met [[Rivers Cuomo]] while working at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd, later introducing him to Wilson.
-"We have no idea if we're going to be a band next year. That's the fun of being in Weezer," guitarist Brian Bell laughed. "That's why we put out albums every three years, and we have these dark periods where we don't know if we're even going to be a band anymore. But I always have this gut feeling that everything will take care of itself, one way or the other, and it always does."
+In 1998, Finn was invited to play with Weezer as a potential replacement for Matt Sharp. This resulted in a few weeks of hanging out and several rehearsal sessions, but in the end Pat went back to Portland and later [[Mikey Welsh]] joined the band. In 2005, he appeared onstage with Weezer during the [[Foozer Tour]] in Portland, OR.
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