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The Beatles, U2, The Clash, My Bloody Valentine, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, Motley Crue, ? & the Mysterians, Silverchair, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Monkees, L'Arc~En~Ciel, Oasis, Beyond (HK), Guns N' Roses, Hyde, Puffy AmiYumi, T.M.Revolution , |
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Music, Backyard Wrestling, Guitar Shops, Thrift Stores, Rock & Roll Culture, Asian Pride, Asian Pop & Traditional Culture, White Girls, Asian Girls, Computers, Video Games, Social-Networking Websites, Local Music Shows / Battle of the Bands, Hinduism, Vedic Astrology, Taiwan, Local Music, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Magazines, Heavy Metal Culture & Metalheads, Hippies, Politics, Fine Arts, Grunge, Manga / Anime
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the beatles&Search=Search&match=exact">the beatles, guns n roses, nirvana, slash's snakepit, enuff z' nuff, poison, christian death, slayer, KMFDM, ministry, x-japan, malice mizer, l'arc~en~ciel, samurai sorcerers, john lennon, paul mccartney & wings, the ramones, the clash, sex pistols, rolling stones, the who, the velvet underground, MC5, the stooges, new york dolls, the doors, motley crue, winger, ozzy osbourne, black sabbath, led zeppelin, lillix, robert johnson, buddy holly, johnny cash, AFI (old), black flag, the casualties, izzy stradlin & the ju ju hounds beyond (HK), asian kung-fu generation, INXS, elton john, the monkees, jimi hendrix, van halen, samantha 7, brides of destruction, night ranger, burzum, mayhem, dimmu boggir, crade of filth, november's doom, cathedral, sioxsie & the banshees, duran duran, muddy waters, pearl jam, screaming trees, alice in chains, soundgarden, oasis, silverchair, bush, john lee hooker, U2, sonny boy williamson, parliament, george clinton, bob marley, boxcar racer, stinking cloud, bathory, the germs, metallica (old), megadeth, ministry, dir en grey, britny fox, the cure, the replacements, bob dylan, pink floyd, boston, chicago, jefferson airplane, the grateful dead, warrant, danger danger, alice cooper, AC/DC, aerosmith
THIS IS THE STORE I GET MY MUSIC AT!
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Just in case...My favorite WRESTLING DVDs and FILMS are anything that has do with my FAVORITE tag team wrestlers Matt and Jeff Hardy (The Hardy Boyz).
But anyways! I get my movies right here man!
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HEY TV IS COOL! BUT WHAT'S EVEN BETTER MAN?! FUCKING VIDEO GAMES!
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Aside from doing the whole music thing? Just stuff...Uhm playing video games and FANTASY wrestling on Shootclub.com collecting/reading magazines, pro wrestling, watching my DVD movies (NO it's not Asian porn!) and going online? Those are my hobbies...That's pretty much it dude., |
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MUSIC & WRESTLING IS MY LIFE! - Patrick "Audio" Lew
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Networking, Serious Romance, Musical Career |
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Straight |
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Daly City, CA |
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6' 0'' / Slim / Slender |
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Asian |
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Hindu |
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Scorpio |
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Yes |
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On social occasions |
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Wants Kids |
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City College of San Francisco
50 Phelan Ave
San Francisco, CA 94112 |
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Skyline College
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA |
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School of Grunge (AUDIO RAGE) is my OWN solo project and musical group/promotion sorta one-man band thing. I founded this group when my former bandmembers from my old band Samurai Sorcerers had to do this other musical group Sapien. I make beats/instrumentals on a PC or Mac and showcase it 2 people through flyers or online advice. I was a musician doin' Samurai Sorcerers as a starving band for 2 or 3 years until we separated on bad terms back in September of 2005 I must say. So I done AUDIO RAGE for my career ever since. At some point I tried to get other musicians to join AUDIO RAGE through ad on Craigslist.org but to no avail.
At music stores and Best Buy I got MUAH the tools I needed to make music. I virtually replaced all the members of the crew to gain extra freedom by playing in Audio Rage and to ignore the "garage band drama" musicians had to face @ band practices in the studio making our music or backstage a "Battle of the Bands" gig/show. It doesn't fuckin' matter if I am using a computer to make most of this F'N music! As long as I have a "band in the box!"
Why this name?
Ever since my high school garage band Samurai Sorcerers broke up on bad terms back in Sept 2005 because of musical and personal disputes Muah (Audio) had to come up with a new IDEA for a musical group and project and I didn't have a rock band of musicians to get the music going at band practice so I used computer applications and rented instruments from the music shop electronics store or places like Best Buy to carry on Audio Rage.
I do my own self-promotion through website flyers I printed at a KINKOS store off my Audio Rage websites via internet and put my music everywhere through musician showcase websites online. I never played gigs often so booking is a C- for me. I am my own self-promotion. I go find a musician showcase website online when surfing the internet @ home when studying for a crossword puzzle for math class @ school (even though I am Asian and bad at math) and put my music there and make flyers out of these personal webpages and hand them out to friends and strangers @ school or put them in stores in the City.
Do you play live?
Not very often. Last time I played a gig was when I was still a community college student @ Skyline College for school. I used to bring my electric guitar and start a MUSIC CLUB @ the school and do gigs from there and at the BUS STOP bumming rich people for $$$ outside the shopping mall or downtown SF in the CITY. But most of my juices creatively come to Audio Rage @ home in my musical workshop I call my BEDROOM! Thanks to my computer keyboards and guitar!
What area/region did I perform MUZAK in the most? Mostly SF/Daly City. I almost got a gig in a diner @ Oakland with my old band Samurai Sorcerers back in May 2005 from an e-mail from this one little girl named Diane. I did however play music for gigs in Hong Kong China last November when on vacation since I have family who are also musicians artists and talented people.
Did any of the band members move from another area to join up with you? Ehhh....Only in community college did that ever happen. LOL. My college friend Zack Huang from CCSF was originally from China but he's an aspiring film maker and makes indpendent movies for the local Bay Area scene in FILM. He also is a music producer and he did help make the best out of the musical ideas I had for Audio Rage during band practice in December days before I went on a romantic date with my then-girlfriend Laila. We used the computer and played the MIDI keyboards and instruments and nailed it from there. But usually....All the musicians I ever played along with were from the SF Bay. I did in the past however put a “band wanted” ad on Craigslist.org or some other classified newspaper thingy to start a racially diverse “multicultural” ROCK ENSEMBLE. That didn’t work but I did play music with peeps that were of all cultural backgrounds or genders. Honestly man!
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I usually make CDs of random songs of my music. But I can make you a copy of all the BEST Audio Rage songs from my musical career if you want. Or just go to: http://www.soundclick.com/samuraisorcerers to find TONS of mp3 files of my musical work with the "band in a box." But for NOW I mostly do DIY and crap ya know.
Band History:
www.battleofthebands.com/audiorage
Your influences?
Stuff I am currently listening to on my 256MB portable MP3 device I got at an electronics store at the mall in Hong Kong at the moment when sitting in the bus or walking along the city are: '80s Rock Enuff Z' Nuff, U2, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, School of Audsio Rage/Samurai Sorcerers (I know! How funny cuz' I listen to my own shit...) White Lion, The Clash, Oasis, Guns N' Roses, L'Arc~en~Ciel and Beyond.
Favorite spot?
I do not know. Anywhere is fine as long as the people are respectful towards the music.
Anything else...?
Mainly a rock & roll project done by a computer Audio Rage was the one-man band and musical concept of Patrick Lew. Patrick Allan Lew was born November 15 1985, in San Francisco. An Asian American of Taiwanese and Japanese ancestry he showed promise as a creative artist and musician but not as a stereotypical Asian child. Even more so Patrick stated his childhood was mostly tumultuous. Patrick was an outsider at school and was teased by other children for being “different” and “unique.” But while Patrick’s school life was sort of difficult he acted small roles in many theatrical plays and became an avid Beatles fan. His interest in music came as an answer to his anti-social life as he got into rock & roll before reaching 5th grade. At the age of fourteen Patrick got a guitar and began teaching himself through books. He also worked at a comic book store and worked at the Cherry Blossom festival at Japantown as a teenager. Eventually Patrick became a computer geek and began teaching himself how to use various computer applications and working on his own music for hours.
He spent his high school years as a well-appreciated student from his classmates on campus at Wallenberg High. It was here where he studied computers and drama but failed many of his academic courses. Also around this time he was discovering J-Pop and assorted underground music. Patrick spent a year at City College of San Francisco studying music and broadcasting but left the community college to escape his past and began playing music more than attending class studying for exams.
As a musician who studied music as a teenager Patrick was desperate to form a serious band of musicians making good music. Patrick met Eddie Blackburn in his drama class at school and the two became musician buddies but also had a share of differences as musicians or schoolmates. Patrick Lew soon called upon his best friend Asuka Mayumi Nagase to join along Eddie and him on bass and founded the school band Samurai Sorcerers. Patrick knew Mayumi from the Japanese club at school and the two also dated for a short time. Samurai Sorcerers soon began promoting their music via internet and band practice occurred at Patrick or Eddies house every other week where music would be played through Eddies bone shredding guitar skills or Patrick and Mayumi's storytelling songs.
Samurai Sorcerers never had a drummer so a drum machine was used which Eddie picked up at a Guitar Center shop. In 2003 the rock trio created a demo tape in Patricks bedroom Psychotic Love. Their first concert took place at the street corner of a subway station in downtown SF. Since the band rarely were booked for gigs they did whatever a starving musician could do. They played some stuff even if no one paid attention.
Samurai Sorcerers was a group famous for not only music but Patrick Lew's personal life as his romantic woes were put for the world to see on Xanga.com which would be the start of Patricks drug abuse and depression. The music of Samurai Sorcerers could be best described as Grunge meets Hair-Metal. As of today in 2006 the music and websites of Samurai Sorcerers is always available via internet.
Patrick would do most of the gigs alone for Samurai Sorcerers and played instruments and sung on most songs for only 2 albums: Psychotic Love and Blizzard of Sound.
Unfortunately Patrick graduated from Wallenberg in June 2004 and headed off to community college. He didnt feel he belonged anywhere not just as a musician or artist but as a person. After two or three years of a social life with them Samurai Sorcerers called it quits in August 2005. In reaction to being booted from playing in local bands with real-life musicians he replaced the musicians with a computer program he got from Best Buy. This became School of Audio Rage Patrick Lew's alternative to Samurai Sorcerers.
Since then musician Patrick has been filming recording and touring with his one-man virtual band Audio Rage. You can find lots of Samurai Sorcerers websites on the internet by searching on GOOGLE. The Samurai Sorcerers broke up after long periods of no jam sessions or band practices in Patricks house and Patrick subsequently jammed with other local garage bands on guitar but was booted out for his amateur musicianship.
As School of Audio Rage which the bandname was taken from Patricks obsession with heavy rock & roll music being played on his portable mp3 player he began producing his own Beatles-inspired compositions through 21st century technology the computer, playing all the instruments himself. Although he is in such a state of creative lull at this moment Patrick managed to cobble up the demo tapes he made of new material and began posting it on various artist showcase websites. The mp3 podcast singles Asian Woman Blues and Revenge earned the School of Audio Rage and Patrick good reception and became a fixture on mp3 downloads. Sooner than later his music was promoted on fan-made websites to some bands he liked The Beatles and Poison.
As Audio Rage began showcasing their musical work on various websites and with Patrick Lew getting expelled from Skyline College Patrick and his one-man band Audio Rage moved to his bedroom and assembled a studio from $1,500 worth of equipment and musical instruments bought from junk shops to Guitar Center to record Audio Rage’s album “The Chronicles of Revenge.” In the meantime Patrick Lew in the meantime began collaborating with his Skyline College pal David "Knuckles" Arceo to create a non-Samurai Sorcerers side project called Fatal Fury which the musical duo and project specializes in making video game soundtracks and dance/electronica in Patrick's bedroom during social gatherings at his house on a weekend when school is out. David Arceo also gave Patrick Lew his NEW nickname Audio, after his musical group.
The planned musical project FATAL FURY eventually evolved into a FUN BAND | | | |
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