All three brothers have Tourettes but none of them show any tics during the interview.
For Dan, who plays drums, Tourettes feels like this knot thats getting tighter and tighter.
Over time, he and his brothers have discovered a way to slacken the knot: playing music.
I think being able to check out and do something physical has helped my Tourettes.
Now the Pattersons write songs and make videos on their lunch breaks.
Whatever they call it, though, working together has helped them.
Im like, Ah, whatever you want.'
he tellsRolling Stonevia email.
We are kindred spirits.
I was like, Yes: validation, validation.'
Their music is incredibly good, Snider says.
Good songs, good playing, and passion to rock!
When Covid lockdown restrictions ended, he decided to make his own gym in his backyard.
So I was just immediately completely smitten by the place.
The brothers offered to help him with his gym for a pack of beer.
Dan was practicing drums that day.
When he learned about the Pattersons vast archive of home movies, he knew hehad tomake the movie.
He just seemed like a local guy, Joel says.
Hes got a surfboard in the back of his car.
Otsuka says the more he learned about the Pattersons, the more fascinated he became.
My driving question in making this film is why these guys do the things they do, he says.
Kids have that, he continues.
But they were able to keep it.
Dan founded it after majoring in art with a sculpture minor and falling in love with metal work.
Joel joined the brothers next, and before long, each Patterson had his own specialty at the company.
I love coming in every day and being able to see them, Dan says.
And we joke around, we laugh, we share ideas, and then we go and work.
And its a way we connect thats not work exactly.
The Pattersons family ties are what impressed Otsuka most when makingAll Things Metal.
Theyre constantly supporting each other, with work, art, and family, he says.
In some of the archival videos, theres just big circles of Pattersons playing a bunch of instruments together.
Ive never come across people like that, he says.
Its never too late to just make art for arts sake.
We never did this for that.
Making music was purely for the creative exercise, and for the joy of it, Dan says.
