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Mar 23, 2008 |
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Pearl Jam, Silverchair, Box Car Racer, The Velvet Underground, Burzum, My Bloody Valentine, White Lion, Tesla, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Blink 182, Candlebox, Faith No More, Bad 4 Good, Old Green Day, Soundgarden, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Who, Motley Crue, Enuff Z' Nuff, Old Metallica, |
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Alternative Music, |
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CDBaby, SoundClick |
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I am a MUSICIAN. I play the guitar. I love music, professional wrestling, video games and reading magazines about music or hobbies I am interested in! I am Asian, I am Taiwanese. I go to CCSF but will wound up going to a CSU college for Grad School by Fall 2008 to get my BA in Social Work and Music. I gone through a lot in my life but hey! I am still here happy to live life one day at a time. Check my music out in Band of Asians online. ^_^
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Beyond the Mat, Rock Star, Airheads, School of Rock, Thirteen, 300, Grindhouse, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Wayne's World, Fight Club, Kill Bill 1 and 2 Kiss of the Dragon Crazy/Beautiful, Stigmata, The Exorcism of Emily Rose The '60s, Gen-X Cops, Rush Hour 2, High School Musical, Turn Left Turn Right The Returner, The Matrix Trilogy, Spiderman 1 and 2 Terminator 2, Kurt and Courtney,
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WWE, Cartoon Network, VH-1 Classic, Youtube.com, Lifetime TV, South Park, Wrestling, Baseball, Rock of Love, Family Guy, '90s Nickelodeon, '90s TV Shows, Unsolved Mysteries ,
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Music, Video Games, Pro Wrestling, Reading, Computers, Baseball, Old Cartoons, Creating Music, Asian Girls, White Girls,
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I'm a progressive liberal politically in politics.
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Male
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Single |
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Music Promotion |
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Not Sure |
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San Francisco / Antioch, California, USA |
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6 ft 1 in / Slim / Slender |
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Asian (i.e. Taiwanese) |
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Agnostic |
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Scorpio |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Someday |
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Grad / Professional School |
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| Previous |
City College of San Francisco
50 Phelan Ave
San Francisco, CA 94112 |
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I'm an Internet musician who played guitar in 3 local bands as a teenager in the Bay Area independent music community. As well as publishing my music on the Internet on music pages such as this with my projects. Internet musician first. And individual comes second. I can play at least 4 or 5 musical instruments. I played Rhythm Guitar in the local San Francisco bands Silent Minister and The Original Tapeworms. I also go to school and I'm about to finish college at City College of San Francisco and will be off to Grad School at SF State University. I've been doing music solo even I've been playing Rhythm Guitar in local bands with other musicians I'm friends with. Band of Asians originally was an Asian American grunge band of 3 musicians who were Asian. Myself being Taiwanese. And former band members and alumni Augusto Hernandez (bass) was Chinese and Filipino. Dave Arceo (drums) was Filipino. Since the Band of Asians was whittled down to just me as a solo musician creating this music. It's personally on good terms from Cory Dave and Augusto my One Man Band. The instruments I play is Rhythm Guitar Bass, Synthesizer, Piano and Harmonica. Band of Asians music is supposed to be NOT formulated but a FUSION of many different sounds. While it was initially a Grunge band with 3 Asian American musicians and college kids. I feel I gotten a lot of criticism because of that from SoundClick music critics or others. I've gone through a lot of hardships in my personal life such as a divorce from my high school girlfriend Amy. Not to mention shambolic love affairs social isolation and a broken heart. And these feelings became the foundation of Band of Asians music and sound. Expressing a meaning of life.
So much for earning appreciation and respect from other people. I feel Band of Asians music is sadly underappreciated but still the MUSIC I created can be unique and creative. I will continue Band of Asians no matter what challenge gets in my personal life even when playing a musical instrument in another local band with musician friends again. So much for respect.
Why this name?
Originally Band of Asians was founded in early 2006 when I was getting college education at Skyline College. Zack persuaded me to mutually quit my high school band Silent Minister because of the DRAMAS going on in the music and being In the Studio with my high school friends creating music without the magic when I was a teenager. Dave and I met in Reading 826 at Skyline College which was a Beginner Reading Lab college course we took together. We became very close friends until the day he left Band of Asians and moved overseas to the Phillipines with his family amidst troubles with his personal life. So me and Dave got Augusto to join Band of Asians on bass guitar and we begun calling the Garage Band of local Asian musicians AUDIO RAGE. Me and Zack picked up some musical equipment from the computer store. We were still called Audio Rage by the time myself Dave and Augusto were booked into a local recording studio to create music. But something was funny with our music and bandname. Audio Rage sounded like a pun on the Hard Rock band Audioslave. We didn't want to copy or plagiarize ideas that seemed unoriginal so we needed a change in Audio Rage's music and bandname. The Audio Rage name came from MUSIC being the storybook and soundtrack to a musician's life (Audio) and expressing the meaning of life (Rage). But we knew we had to change it! So Zack gave me a bootleg copy of this computer music program for PC computers called "Band in the Box." At first Dave thought of calling the band Warrior Project 420. But when Zack visited us in the recording studio when we were creating music for the "Revenge" demo album of music he said to me and Dave. "How about putting BAND in your music and bandname?" Because of course we were musicians who were hobbyist of music and loved it and do it other than going to college. So Dave looked at every one of us in the room and joked, "Were all Asian homies in this studio!" It later stuck! Later we changed our bandname from Audio Rage to Band of Asians because everyone in this Indie Rock band were Asian American local musicians and music artists! Since then Band of Asians were Internet indie musicians putting our music on the Internet through music communities like SoundClick.com. We played a couple shows locally. Done a Tape Recital at my old music school Vibo Music Center. And of course! We lived like Rock Stars despite we were local musicians in the independent music community and shit.
Although Augusto left Band of Asians in early 2007 to play bass guitar in a local J-Rock band from Pacifica California with other local musicians and went off to college. Our good friend from City College backyard wrestler Cory Gaitan filled in as a substitute musician for touring and studio recording. Although Cory moved to Pennsylvania by the end of August to start a new life and career at a Tattoo Shop and left City College and his bookstore job at the school. Dave leaving the Band of Asians and the spotlight had a tremendous life-changing effect on me personally. I love him and he will be missed by the Internet musicians community and Band of Asians music sorely. I believe Augusto's band promotes their music on the Japanese indie & amateur music page Muzie. Although I have no clue about information regarding that band he plays in now. I haven't spoken to Augusto since he left Band of Asians.
And NOW! Band of Asians with a written letter/telegram from Dave. I can feel free to continue Band of Asians as a One Man Band. I expect to publish a CD collection of studio outtakes and demo versions of music that didn't make the CUT for the "Revenge" or "Buy Product" albums called "OLD NEW SONGS" by the summer of 2008 when I finish college at City College. But as far as a third Band of Asians album goes don't expect me to go to the recording studio SOON to create music for it just yet. I am coming up with so many musical scrapbook of ideas to figure what I can do for the next Band of Asians demo. I heard City College will OPEN a recording studio for aspiring musicians by the end of the 2000s. Maybe that rings some bells.
Do you play live?
Band of Asians is MORE of a Studio Band than a live musical performance Local Band. Although Band of Asians played a variety of small concerts locally in 2007 at City College mostly. I feel Band of Asians doesn't capture much musical experience IN CONCERT than it does in the recording studio or my OWN home workshop in creating music. Some of Band of Asians music is VERY hard to duplicate for a live musical performance. Since myself tried to capture NEW sounds in every recording I made after quitting my high school band Silent Minister and ensconcing myself in the recording studio to create GOOD music. I feel Band of Asians needs a Live Band of great studio musicians to play Band of Asians music for shows. But in any case creating music in my home recording studio called Band in the Box in my bedroom with Band of Asians is always a special musical experience for me. If I could put an ad in the paper to get musicians to present Band of Asians in concert it's tough because I am balking at touring at the moment as a One Man Band and I doubt most studio musicians would not want to pursue a career playing for Band of Asians live as sidemen musicians for every tour and circus.
How do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
The Internet has always been the playground for independent recording musicians. Especially during my days as a local musician playing Rhythm Guitar in my high school band Silent Minister. I've been publishing my music on Internet musicians community webpages like this since 2002. I think the integrity and communication between the musicians and fans through the Internet and their music pages online brings the music closer to the people. Especially during a time in Mainstream Music nowadays getting increasingly stale and unoriginal. I predict the music industry and record companies will go through something similar like the Video Game Crash of 1983 did. Except worse. Obsolete. If video games had a decline in the industry before the Nintendo and Sega saved the video game industry there has to be a GOOD band or artist out there to save the Music Industry during a time when people don't buy CDs new for wholesale price at record stores anymore and pirate their music through the Internet. Not to mention Mainstream Music growing stale in creativity and lacking new talent. I create music as a hobby but I also take music seriously as a part-time career occupation but I do have an interest in participating in Performing Arts. I have some intentions of being an Artist and Musician like The Beatles did by taking a step forward in creating music in the recording studio but taking time to do some live musical performances and being musicians in a circus touring. I doubt it would happen beyond my wildest dreams in my hobby and career in music. If anything I'd love to work with music in the future as a career like being a COMPOSER for video game companies or design a new guitar with Ibanez guitar headquarters. I love to help create and liberate the world with my music you know.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I would say yeah. But I have fears and withdrawals about being famous and being in the spotlight. I never agreed with the unfair business with the music industry and record companies and I strongly disagree with the RIAA in how they portray music. If I did sign my life away I would really have a hard time accepting FAME in music by being a Mainstream Musician and no longer Independent. I never liked the idea of millions of people around the world accepting me and worshipping me because I grew up in such as isolated environment. But I would love to entertain and continue creating music and being a circus musician playing shows across the world. Especially Europe or Japan where I noticed Band of Asians has an audience of Internet musicians appreciating the work I done with Band of Asians when DIY the music through the Internet.
Band History:
8 years of being an Internet musician playing shows locally and creating music in the home recording studio whether Band of Asians or the local bands I played in.
Your influences?
I listen to lots of music on my iPod. I like ALL kinds of music. I go to record stores to purchase CDs of music I be interested in listening to. Or the library to borrow CDs of any music. Anything I can get my HANDS ON. I EVEN download music on the black market on the Internet and find interesting indie musicians and garage bands on indepdent music community websites like this. I have an Ipod Nano which I purchased for $150 at Costco. Everything. Everyone. Every Music. Every Sound.
Favorite spot?
My favorite spot has to be Seattle Washington. I love the MUSIC and the Independent Music Community of musicians from that American City. Even though it rains there often I grew up on Grunge music and Grunge culture in my youth. I made some friends from Seattle when DIY my high school band Silent Minister on the Internet blogging website Livejournal.com. I contemplate visiting Seattle again to do college studies for education. And oh! I'd love to travel around the Solar Universe and Mars when I am a grandfather and retired in a rocket ship!
Equipment used:
I have $8,500 worth of musical instruments amps, guitar stompboxes and home studio recording gear from the Guitar Hut. But here's a rundown!
Programs: Propellerhead Reason 4 Magix Music Maker, Audacity, FL Studio 6
Real Musical Instruments: Epiphone Guitars CRATE & FENDER Guitar Amps Digitech RP50 Multi-Effects Pedal DOD Grunge Pedal, Danelectro Fab Distortion Pedal Rogue Bass Guitar, Casio MIDI Keyboards, Chinatown $5 Harmonica, Recording Magazines
Anything else...?
"Make music and love what you do."
Contact me to get closer to Band of Asians music and myself. The Internet musician.
Email - Samurai_Sorcerers@Yahoo.com
MySpace - www.MySpace.com/AudioRage66
FaceBook - SEARCH "Patrick Lew" and if you see a social-networking profile from San Francisco. That's INDEED the real me.
If you're interested in doing a musical collaboration to discuss what music we can do and resource a bunch of research in the bookstore and guitar shop for making art. I'm down. Hit me up.
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