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Band of Asians
» label: Statue Records
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1) band name: Band of Asians
2) formation date: 2005
disbandment date: April 2008
reformation date: 2012? (rumored)
3) web address to use as a link that can be seen by all users:
http://www.purevolume.com/bandofasians
http://www.reverbnation.com/bandofasians
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Band-of-Asians/215016228549765
5) preferred genre classification: Grunge, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Screamo, Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Nu Metal
6) home state (or country if not U.S.): San Francisco, California, USA
7) band members:
Patrick Lew - Guitars
Dave Arceo - Drums
Augusto Hernandez - Lead Vocals
David Hunter - Bass
former members:
Zack Huang - Keyboards
Eddie Blackburn - Lead Guitar (studio only)
Cory Gaitan - Bass
8) Discography:
Band of Asians, Live! (2006)
Revenge (2006)
I Product (2007) --!!! UNRELEASED !!!--
More than any other project Band of Asians acted as the catalyst for the future Yardbirds-like successes of all its former band members. Band of Asians roots lay with late 90’s and early 2000s San Franciscan garage punk band Goldenweasel, whom its guitarists Patrick Lew and Eddie Blackburn had been playing music together in the San Francisco Bay Area since their pre-teens. Both Lew and Blackburn were freelance then-adolescent rock musicians in the local Bay Area scene poaching from band-to-band and jam session after jam session with their social-network in the garage. Drummer Dave Arceo was formerly a hobbyist DJ/turntablist and had started taking up the drum kit shortly prior to Band of Asians initiation. Bassist Augusto Hernandez, like Lew and Blackburn, was a freelance bassist looking for another serious band to play in. Keyboardist Zack Huang was a film student and close schoolmate of Patrick’s at City College of San Francisco, and like Arceo, developed an interest in playing a musical instrument.
Golden weasel, having also played under different band names such as Silent Minister and Samurai Sorcerers, either broke up or merged into the project that would become Band of Asians. Blackburn and Lew were playing music separately by this time, as the two childhood friends were in-between different freelance side projects at the time. Lew already began jamming and composing music with Zack Huang and the duo were interested in forming a serious post-hardcore Bay Area band and cutting a record in a friend’s recording studio. Blackburn, although preoccupied with other bands Logic’s Enemy and Nocturnal Rock Turtles, agreed to be a contributing studio guitarist for Band of Asians. The band’s lineup would be cemented and completed whilst Lew was attending Skyline College in early 2006 and met drummer Dave Arceo and bassist Augusto Hernandez in a community college-level reading course.
After playing local pubs and friends’ house parties in San Bruno, Daly City and San Francisco along with recording a live EP at a local guitar store near Patrick’s house. The Band of Asians spent most of 2006 in the friend’s recording studio making music. That record became the Band of Asians debut and only album “Revenge.” Because of Patrick’s musical connections with Eddie’s then-band Logic’s Enemy and their booking promoters KLC Productions, the Band of Asians landed a few opening act gigs with San Francisco bands Tinkture and Scarlett Bombs. Tinkture, being one of the most notable Bay Area punk bands in the local scene and media at the time. Alongside a few gigs at City College were also performed sporadically throughout 2007. Patrick, Eddie, Zack, Augusto and Dave headed into the studio to self-produce and record an unpublished demo album called “I PRODUCT.” After Lew and Arceo’s former estranged friend and touring bassist Cory Gaitan helped the band secure more potential exposure for the band. It seemed like the time was right to move into the next step as musicians.
Unfortunately and tragically, those prospects never materialized. Eddie Blackburn himself mainly focused on his other bands and projects, and couldn‘t contribute to the Band of Asians any longer as a studio guitarist. Keyboardist Zack Huang was the first to part company with Band of Asians to focus on other life avenues and furthering his education at UC Santa Barbara. Others involved in the Band of Asians were focused on other personal avenues outside of the band, leaving Lew and Arceo remaining within the lineup. Leading to tensions within Lew and Arceo’s individual struggles intervening into the Band of Asians project. Without any of their bandmates involvement working or collaborating with Lew or Arceo, and creative and personal differences led to the inevitable breakup of Band of Asians in April 2008. Lew went onto become a solo Punk musician and achieved greater critical success as an artist with the Bay Area cult-like phenomenon musically and personally in Patrick Lew’s Band (PLB) and freelancing with other musicians locally in garage bands temporarily (most notably the P&G Blues Band).
Arceo resurfaced as a Drum And Bass DJ hobbyist and a freelance lead vocalist for a Ska/Alternative Rock project spearheaded by close friends. Arceo, also sporadically collaborated with Lew on music since the Band of Asians ended. Hernandez worked as a day job at a hospital, while furthering his musical potentials and talents as a bassist and keyboardist. Blackburn remains a garage band guitar hero locally in the Bay and Huang is now pursuing other creative and life avenues.
With PLB Mania in full flow by early 2011, Augusto and Dave Arceo reconnected with Lew via giant social-networking site Facebook and convinced him to capitalize on the insatiable appetite for PLB and Band of Asians fans. Compiling a 2-CD compilation containing their small output of recorded music from their live EP and “Revenge” album and also including their unfinished and unpublished cuts from their aborted album “I PRODUCT.” As of late 2011, former members of Band of Asians including Augusto and Patrick have been discussing prospectively reconstructing a new band or project through talks via Internet on Skype and social-media website Facebook, by jamming and playing music in a local San Francisco recording studio to see if any further developments would bring the musicians together to playing and creating new music in a NEW Band of Asians related project. Reported sources state, that Patrick and Augusto is thinking of bringing in drummer Dave Arceo and P&G Blues Band bassist David Hunter into the new musical creation. Further developments will be revealed in the forthcoming future...
2) formation date: 2005
disbandment date: April 2008
reformation date: 2012? (rumored)
3) web address to use as a link that can be seen by all users:
http://www.purevolume.com/bandofasians
http://www.reverbnation.com/bandofasians
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Band-of-Asians/215016228549765
5) preferred genre classification: Grunge, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Screamo, Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Nu Metal
6) home state (or country if not U.S.): San Francisco, California, USA
7) band members:
Patrick Lew - Guitars
Dave Arceo - Drums
Augusto Hernandez - Lead Vocals
David Hunter - Bass
former members:
Zack Huang - Keyboards
Eddie Blackburn - Lead Guitar (studio only)
Cory Gaitan - Bass
8) Discography:
Band of Asians, Live! (2006)
Revenge (2006)
I Product (2007) --!!! UNRELEASED !!!--
More than any other project Band of Asians acted as the catalyst for the future Yardbirds-like successes of all its former band members. Band of Asians roots lay with late 90’s and early 2000s San Franciscan garage punk band Goldenweasel, whom its guitarists Patrick Lew and Eddie Blackburn had been playing music together in the San Francisco Bay Area since their pre-teens. Both Lew and Blackburn were freelance then-adolescent rock musicians in the local Bay Area scene poaching from band-to-band and jam session after jam session with their social-network in the garage. Drummer Dave Arceo was formerly a hobbyist DJ/turntablist and had started taking up the drum kit shortly prior to Band of Asians initiation. Bassist Augusto Hernandez, like Lew and Blackburn, was a freelance bassist looking for another serious band to play in. Keyboardist Zack Huang was a film student and close schoolmate of Patrick’s at City College of San Francisco, and like Arceo, developed an interest in playing a musical instrument.
Golden weasel, having also played under different band names such as Silent Minister and Samurai Sorcerers, either broke up or merged into the project that would become Band of Asians. Blackburn and Lew were playing music separately by this time, as the two childhood friends were in-between different freelance side projects at the time. Lew already began jamming and composing music with Zack Huang and the duo were interested in forming a serious post-hardcore Bay Area band and cutting a record in a friend’s recording studio. Blackburn, although preoccupied with other bands Logic’s Enemy and Nocturnal Rock Turtles, agreed to be a contributing studio guitarist for Band of Asians. The band’s lineup would be cemented and completed whilst Lew was attending Skyline College in early 2006 and met drummer Dave Arceo and bassist Augusto Hernandez in a community college-level reading course.
After playing local pubs and friends’ house parties in San Bruno, Daly City and San Francisco along with recording a live EP at a local guitar store near Patrick’s house. The Band of Asians spent most of 2006 in the friend’s recording studio making music. That record became the Band of Asians debut and only album “Revenge.” Because of Patrick’s musical connections with Eddie’s then-band Logic’s Enemy and their booking promoters KLC Productions, the Band of Asians landed a few opening act gigs with San Francisco bands Tinkture and Scarlett Bombs. Tinkture, being one of the most notable Bay Area punk bands in the local scene and media at the time. Alongside a few gigs at City College were also performed sporadically throughout 2007. Patrick, Eddie, Zack, Augusto and Dave headed into the studio to self-produce and record an unpublished demo album called “I PRODUCT.” After Lew and Arceo’s former estranged friend and touring bassist Cory Gaitan helped the band secure more potential exposure for the band. It seemed like the time was right to move into the next step as musicians.
Unfortunately and tragically, those prospects never materialized. Eddie Blackburn himself mainly focused on his other bands and projects, and couldn‘t contribute to the Band of Asians any longer as a studio guitarist. Keyboardist Zack Huang was the first to part company with Band of Asians to focus on other life avenues and furthering his education at UC Santa Barbara. Others involved in the Band of Asians were focused on other personal avenues outside of the band, leaving Lew and Arceo remaining within the lineup. Leading to tensions within Lew and Arceo’s individual struggles intervening into the Band of Asians project. Without any of their bandmates involvement working or collaborating with Lew or Arceo, and creative and personal differences led to the inevitable breakup of Band of Asians in April 2008. Lew went onto become a solo Punk musician and achieved greater critical success as an artist with the Bay Area cult-like phenomenon musically and personally in Patrick Lew’s Band (PLB) and freelancing with other musicians locally in garage bands temporarily (most notably the P&G Blues Band).
Arceo resurfaced as a Drum And Bass DJ hobbyist and a freelance lead vocalist for a Ska/Alternative Rock project spearheaded by close friends. Arceo, also sporadically collaborated with Lew on music since the Band of Asians ended. Hernandez worked as a day job at a hospital, while furthering his musical potentials and talents as a bassist and keyboardist. Blackburn remains a garage band guitar hero locally in the Bay and Huang is now pursuing other creative and life avenues.
With PLB Mania in full flow by early 2011, Augusto and Dave Arceo reconnected with Lew via giant social-networking site Facebook and convinced him to capitalize on the insatiable appetite for PLB and Band of Asians fans. Compiling a 2-CD compilation containing their small output of recorded music from their live EP and “Revenge” album and also including their unfinished and unpublished cuts from their aborted album “I PRODUCT.” As of late 2011, former members of Band of Asians including Augusto and Patrick have been discussing prospectively reconstructing a new band or project through talks via Internet on Skype and social-media website Facebook, by jamming and playing music in a local San Francisco recording studio to see if any further developments would bring the musicians together to playing and creating new music in a NEW Band of Asians related project. Reported sources state, that Patrick and Augusto is thinking of bringing in drummer Dave Arceo and P&G Blues Band bassist David Hunter into the new musical creation. Further developments will be revealed in the forthcoming future...
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