SoundClick artist: Patrick Lew's Band - Rebellious Chinese rock star and artist making music and kicking it, since 2001.

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Eddie Blackburn - Guitar (2001-2005)

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» genre: Alternative > Nu Metal

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3700 Pieta Court
Antioch CA USA
phone: 1-415-606-4238
fax: 1-415-333-2002

» label: unsigned

» for fans of: Pearl Jam, Silverchair, Guns N Roses, The Beatles, KoRn, Nirvana, Motley Crue, Beyond, Enuff Z' Nuff, L'Arc~En~Ciel, Steve Vai, G3, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nobou Uematsu, Pinhead Gunpowder

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Patrick Lew's Band

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To Whom I Love (Alternate Mix)

To Whom I Love

Suicide White Girl

Psychopath

Youth Gone Political Instrumental

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Freak (Silverchair Cover)

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A Girlfriend Who Lies

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Heaven Shinedown

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The Oppression

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Jenny Wants Love And What Demo

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My music and ideas in the studio, at home. A portfolio of my ART and Rock And Roll music. I'm a rebellious, deviant and outsider Chinese rock star from the Bay Area making music since 1999 or 2001, the actual time I started being a musician is debated in sources. But whatever! In this page, you will find recordings of songs and instrumentals I did with my former bands Band of Asians, Silent Minister and me solo.

Internet Musician SINCE 2001. Been in bands, played some shows locally, promoted my music online. Now studying music and doing it as a solo musician in college at Cal State East Bay.

I was born in 1985 in San Francisco, California. I am currently in college working on a BA degree in Philosophy and Music at the moment. My interests is mainly art and music, I am in fact as struggling local musician trying to make music, put it online and learn my ropes and odyssey for fame in the music industry. I am of Asian descent, meaning I am Taiwanese American. Though I don't speak my ethnic languages. I mainly play guitar as a musician and write songs and make my music on the computer and put it up online. I've been through a lot of good and bad in my lifetime. But again, it's all been worth it! After 24 years in my life, I am taking the time to do some evaulation to cleanse myself after years of turmoil. I think personally! I am living for today, but have a strong sense of missing the Nineties! It's true.

I've been on Soundclick as a solo musician since August 2005, and I also been making music in garage bands. Getting ourselves noticed and heard to survive since 2001 locally and via Internet, on websites like this. We done some sporadic shows regionally in the Bay Area as musicians. I been making music since I started playing guitar at age 13, and I am a very unconventional musician and songwriter. Considering I know little about conventional music theory and etc. I love being a one-man band (Patrick Lew's Band) because, more freedom, creativity and artistically. And I don't work under timing issues. But I do miss playing shows. I mostly make Grunge, Hard Rock and Punk kind of music as a solo musician. With a few extra added electronics!

So let me start, I was born in November of 1985. I am currently 24 years of age, and I got into music (primarily Rock N' Roll) at a very young age. When most babies were in their diapers playing their toys and watching Sesame Street on their TV. When I turned 13 years old, around 1998 or whatever. I was a 7th grader at Rooftop Alternative School in my former hometown of San Francisco. My mom and I went to a Guitar Shop and bought me a Fender Strat bundle for my 13th birthday. I was going to Chinese school in SF Chinatown, where I was friends with my later high school buddy Tommy Loi. We were in the same language and music lessons program. So we began playing music together, as Tommy was learning Drums in his Band/Orchestra course. In the summer of 1999, we began an amateur garage band as musician hobbyists called Goldenweasel. Which later became, Silent Minister. Our high school band. I was getting guitar lessons at the time, and we knew this was FUN and INTERESTING.

When me and Tommy went to Wallenberg High School together, we began our teenage lives as high school students. I was so interested in music, it became a passion and sometimes hobbyist obsession. Other than my video games, cartoons and writing. Around early 2001 or something, my schoolmate Joey Fitzgerald introduced me formally to his friend Morgan's younger brother Eddie Blackburn. Due to my complaints and desire to form a REAL rock band of musicians to play and make music with! We were basically in our mid-teens, although Eddie was age 12 when he joined Silent Minister. So that became our high school band. And suddenly! I was recording on a 4-track Tascam Portastudio at home, yeah I know...I am old. Haha, but I found out I could promote my music all over the Internet. So one afternoon in May of 2001, I went on my old PC computer with 56K dial-up Internet. And made a website. Thus, beginning my music career.

We played shows sporadically whenever we could. Depending on time and etc. The first gig Silent Minister played were buskers at Vans Warped Tour 2001 at a tent filled with rock band instruments. 2001, was not only the start of my music career personally. But, also the first time I played in a REAL rock band. Garage band, local band...Whatever! I was coming-of-age at the time, angry with high school melodrama and bullshit. But I also was in LOVE when I met my high school girlfriend, Amy Sean. She even built the first website for my music (http://patallans.8k.com)! So anyways, making music was the main priority and project for us. Distributing and marketing it online and regionally was second. And playing shows and getting heard, third.

When I was 16 years old, close to my 17th birthday. Me and Silent Minister played "BATTLE OF THE BANDS" in San Francisco at some nightclub. It was a very short live performance of our amateur Garage Band music. Rock N' Roll style. There's no pictures of us playing live, we didn't own digital cameras until 2004 or 2005. They were expensive at retailers at the time. And none of our friends came to see us, live, had a camera on them. But snuck in a tape recorder to bootleg our gig. Which I still have the tape somewhere in my room in a cardboard box of my music career memorabilia. So there! The next few years, we would play gigs on occasion and record new music and put it online. Despite the fact, we were very undeveloped as songwriters and musicians back then. Tommy soon left the band for school, but we're still very close today. He's working on Business and Retail now. But soon...

Opportunity knocked on our email account on Yahoo, when Statue Records contacted us on our SC website (when Silent Minister still had a Soundclick) in early 2003, about a promotion record deal. We signed. And it made us even more dedicated, passionate and serious about making music and behind it all. Regardless what f***ing music critics and haters thought of us. 2003, I was in love with Amy. And I was doing cross-promotion and distribution of my music individually and Silent Minister. Amy and I were close, somehow I met a lot of groupies via Internet during this time alone. I had an ex-girlfriend Mikko, who I dated and met through Findapix.com at the time. When that ended, some issues would continue for me as I was graduating high school. Me and Amy broke up, and were completely estranged since then. Although we did briefly reconcile at the Wallenberg High School reunion for alumni's in 2008. Pictures up to show what was once beautiful, can come back, but gets lost again.

In the summer of 2004, I graduated from Wallenberg. And was off to cram school at City College of San Francisco. I didnt want to at first, but my high school transcripts were awful. Since I focused more on music and art than my education at the time. I nearly got accepted to San Jose State University, when I sent in my bad SAT and ACT testing scores and college application to them. But I f***ed it all up. I even went to rehab in September of that year, because I was unhappy with my family life and with love & romance parting company in not so friendly terms. But Silent Minister went back into the recording studio, and we recorded a 2nd album "Blizzard of Sound" which later became Ed's solo album "Personality" for disputed source and reason. I was making music solo, jamming with other local musicians from City College and Craigslist. Little did I know, it was the tail end of my high school band.

So in 2005, we finished a short tour across San Francisco high schools and City College. I met my FIRST close schoolmate and friend in college, Zack Huang. In my Ethnic Studies course for Asian Americans. We loved liberal arts, music, film and being creative as individuals. Silent Minister and I were barely making music at this point. Ed was doing solo projects, so was I. In May, me and Ed as Silent Minister worked on music one last time for jam sessions and fun hobbyist band practices. After that, despite how many times me as a solo artist/musician and with Silent Minister, promoted our recordings and story online. We came to a point where, we had to go part company and do whatever we loved individually. So I called Zack, and we began jamming on music and buying hella equipment from Guitar Center to prepare a very ambitious Rock Project. At first we were called AUDIO RAGE. We tried out a few guitarists we met on MySpace musician ads. But that didn't work out. Me and Zack, also, briefly played with my schoolmate Gray Eser's band TORM. We were mainly inactive for various events and experiences in our lives at the time, so we never recorded anything.

By the time, I took a year off college to focus on my music career. I went to Skyline College briefly, because of my parents demanding education as a priority for me. But I was in NO shape physically or mentally to go back to school yet to learn my education. But when I took a music and reading course, I met my close friend David Arceo. Which we founded the DJ and Electronic Arts club on campus. I called Zack, and this became our band known today by many independent music fanatics as BAND OF ASIANS...

Why this name?

This is a solo musician adventure, and Patrick Lew is my REAL NAME. The "band" in the music refers to the musicians who were involved in making rocking music with me in the studio. Patrick Lew's Band can also be an archival vault of recorded music I did since 2000 or 2001 as a San Francisco local musician who promotes himself constantly online on his computer. Such as outtakes, jams, unfinished music and studio album tracks. This is basically a portfolio to chart the progression and evolution that is me and my music.

Do you play live?

Yes as a matter of a fact, I did. Duh! I mainly toured locally with my two former bands, Band of Asians and Silent Minister in my music career as an independent musician and sound artist. We played shows in recreational centers, bars, small nightclubs, Chinatown and EVEN. School. We did play a few gigs as talented yet starving Internet musicians in the Powell and Civic Center BART subway station in San Francisco and the streets of Downtown SF and Oakland at times. But we mainly promote our music via Internet and did focus on investing money into musical gear from the Guitar Center to make some rockin' music. Patrick Lew's Band along with OTHER former projects associated with my music career has been promoting our music and franchise via Internet since 2001. And we're passionate about music regardless what naysayers and corrupt music industry companies like major or indie record labels think about us.

Would you sign a record contract with a major label?

Depends. Why?

Will I sign with a major record company? Yes, I would. But maybe not. I've been promoting my musical work on the Internet on independent websites like SoundClick and PureVolume.com for many years already. I have the freedom of creating music at home and using my computer to make it or promote it via Internet. I do however, want FAME with my music. Not MONEY. I never thought of doing music for profit. I am against corrupt companies like Viacom in media.

I also, hated the fact if I get signed to a major record label and have myself earning FAME and EXPOSURE through my music. I would feel miserable and pigeonholed, because I never had much appreciation or felt special when I was younger as the independent music artist. It's because if the whole f***ing world now appreciated an Underrated Sound Machine, and you didn't had much of that in the PAST, you'll feel worse in your personal life and that's NOT always good. But yeah, I always wanted FAME and ATTENTION with my music and art. So it's yes and no.

I guess I am against the music industry sort of. I hate it absolutely! But I do love being independent and all. But it's a damn shame, the record companies and the music industry is ONE of the most corrupt people in this world. There's countless number of musicians and unsigned bands that's our friends on Soundclick that deserve to be signed to lucrative record deals by now, with indie or major record labels.

Band History:

PATRICK'S BANDS/PROJECTS:

Patrick Lew's Band -- 2001-present -- all guitars, all vocals, production, keyboards, drum programming, songwriting, bass, arranging, engineering, promoting, mixing

Goldenweasel -- 1999-2001 -- rhythm guitar, music lessons, co-songwriting, tape recording, production, backup vocals and arranging with Tommy Loi.

Silent Minister -- 2001-2005 -- rhythm guitar, bass, co-songwriting, music lessons, vocals, keyboards, tape recording, production and arranging with Eddie Blackburn, Shawn Blacharski, Zack Huang and Tommy Loi.

Band of Asians -- 2005-2008 -- lead & rhythm guitar, production, effects, engineering, co-songwriting, arranging, mixing, keyboards and ProTools with Zack Huang, Dave Arceo, Cory Gaitan and Augusto Hernandez.

Dexter Rotten -- 2008-present -- lead & rhythm guitar, vocals, bass, drum programming, drums, production, songwriting, arranging, mixing, engineering and ProTools with Kelsey Michell.

Your influences?

I was 2 when I first heard The Beatles and Rolling Stones, which was what got me into music. Music from my former Asian hippie mom. Then I was 7 when I got into bands such as Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Pearl Jam and Soungarden. I started dressing in band shirts, grew my hair into a moptop, people thought I looked like an Asian girl but I didn't care. I bought a guitar kit at the Guitar Hut at 13, and learned a few basic things on my instrument and took two weeks of guitar lessons. So I went to high school at Wallenberg. I had a band but we got booed because everyone at school liked rap more than rock. So I later developed an interest in electronics. Then I dated Asian and White girls who liked R&B. Turns out I respect that genre too.

My favorite bands if anything are:
-- Nirvana
-- Pearl Jam
-- Green Day
-- The Beatles
-- Led Zeppelin
-- AC/DC
-- Motley Crue
-- Guns N' Roses
-- White Lion
-- Def Leppard
-- Smashing Pumpkins
-- TOOL
-- Metallica
-- Soundgarden
-- Tesla
-- Ozzy Osbourne
-- Aerosmith
-- Silverchair

Favorite spot?

East Bay, California. Anywhere else? School, only with the company of close schoolmates and friends. Other than that, home sweet home in Antioch, playing my Xbox 360. Reading and playing guitar in my room. And going on Facebook.com to keep in contact with friends online on my computer. And being in my home studio making crappy but interesting music, and playing a gig onstage when time permits me to do so. I love to entertain and give art and music to the people, and earn appreciation for what I do.

Equipment used:

I basically use Fender and Epiphone guitars. As far as amp goes, I use Marshall and Fender practice amps. Along with Digitech RP50 and Boss DS-2 guitar FX pedals. I record on my computer laptop running Acoustica Mixcraft, and I use drum loops I find off websites to be the "virtual" drummer. Because, I don't OWN a drum kit at home. I use other recording software like, Cubase and some software guitar amps like Line6 TonePort GX or Guitar Rig to record my tunes.

Anything else...?

Go on your computer and listen to my music. And appreciate the hard work and rough times I've experienced and done. No seriously, do it. Music is universal and has ART and uniqueness in its own way, and ignorance and alienation is not acceptable in the personality and artistic individuals' strong-willed and passionate attitudes to bring CHANGE and make good or bad ART.

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