Genre: Rock
Music Style:Alt-Rock, Grunge, Electronica, Metal, J-Pop
Location: California-Oakland/East Bay
URL: http://audiogig.com/djaudioragebandofasians.agg
Website: http://www.myspace.com/samuraisorcerers
Telephone : 415-333-2002
Email: xxpoeticboyxx@yahoo.com
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Band of Asians plays music with musical instruments and computer software as a garage band. They shop at Guitar Center to get their guitars and play gigs for live musical events for colleges and musical places in Seattle and San Francisco.
Samurai Sorcerers played music using Guitar Center stuff in many different musical projects since the teenagers first met at City College of San Francisco and Wallenberg High School in the theater and music club, in 2004. Samurai Sorcerers, whom played music and hung out in guitar stores and school in Patrick's home recording studio on occasions. The band members of SoundEater all were born in San Francisco in the mid 1980s and went to high school and college together. Patrick Lew (born 1985) played bass, rhythm guitar and sung. Eddie Blackburn (born July 1988) played guitar in the band's music. And Shawn Blacharski (born May 1988), though sometimes played music in Samurai Sorcerers, played bass in the band. He stepped in on bass guitar when Mayumi wasn't around for making a demo in Patrick's home recording studio, and this occured during the musical career of both Samurai Sorcerers.
The band Samurai Sorcerers used to jam on music for gigs in a garage band called Samurai Sorcerers. Patrick known Eddie and Shawn since high school, and the 3 teenage rock musicians met each other in movie theater class. Patrick and Eddie formed the grunge band Samurai Sorcerers and jammed on music at home with musical instruments they got at the pawnshop, and brought in Patrick's former Asian girlfriend Mayumi to play bass for gigs and home recording studio in the garage band Samurai Sorcerers. Patrick worked a day job at a comic book store, Mayumi worked as a language instructor at a Japanese language school Soko Gakuen (which Patrick got her job at) and Eddie either taught guitar lessons at a school or played music with other bands and projects. In 2003, the Samurai Sorcerers was born and began playing music as a band. In their musical resume, the band Samurai Sorcerers started out playing music together at Patrick's house and eventually took their music and garage band for gigs and live events across Daly City and San Francisco.
The music of Samurai Sorcerers was Grunge or Heavy Metal. Through the CDs they got at Amoeba or listening to their favorite bands and music on their iPods, they played music in the band by duplicating the rock & roll bands (Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses) they were inspired by. The garage band of hard rock musicians were also musically well-trained (except Mayumi) and had experience playing music in other bands and had some connections with the independent music scene in San Francisco.
During 2003 and 2004, the Samurai Sorcerers would make rehearsal tapes at school or Patrick's music studio, though the primitive recordings of their musical jam sessions show that Mayumi didn't play her musical instrument that well, and just like the story of The Beatles, Mayumi was the Stuart Sutcliffe of the band. Mayumi lasted 6 months to 1 year playing music in the local garage band Samurai Sorcerers before leaving the group to focus on college and her education. Though she was influential for the song "Tokyo Pop Princess," which the story behind the musical masterpiece song goes, Patrick and Mayumi went on a romantic date to go to Amoeba Music (used record store) to go see Jpop singer Nami Tamaki for a free concert and live music event at the record store. They met the beautiful female Japanese pop singer and musician, and Patrick and Mayumi got their Nami Tamaki CDs autographed at the store after the free concert.
Some of the tapes of Samurai Sorcerers' musical resume that includes jamming on guitars and musical instruments at school for band practice, along with Eddie and Patrick playing guitar together at Patrick's home recording studio would later be included on the band's demo or musical mixtape. They also got better success by putting their music and profile up on the Internet. In August 2004, after Mayumi left the Samurai Sorcerers to focus on college and her education and leaving music behind, Eddie and Patrick's best friend Shawn Blacharski replaced Mayumi on bass when playing music in the garage band Samurai Sorcerers.
They played music for live music events at City College (which both Patrick and Eddie now attend) and also recorded some new songs in Eddie's home recording studio using computer software and rock & roll musical instruments they got at Best Buy or the local guitar store. The band recorded (with Shawn) some new musical masterpieces with guitars and computers on one rainy October 2004 evening. With Patrick's bare bones guitar playing (just basic chords) and Eddie and Shawn's musical techniques on their instruments, put out the album "Blizzard of Sound." Though Patrick's musical output with the musical work for that demo/mixtape was limited. Some songs like "Catfood Parade" with Shawn's mind-numbing bass reminiscent of Les Claypool and Eddie's guitar playing showed the musicians in Samurai Sorcerers or any other band the teenagers played music in, had potential to make good music and play good music, whether it was a gig or a recording studio.
During 2004 and early 2005, they hired through an ad in the paper, two Asian girls Janet and Mony to play instruments for their shows. This would be for the "Psychotic Love" college tour.
By late 2005, that led to Samurai Sorcerers to focus more on playing music in solo projects. Though the teenage musicians in the garage band that played music in Samurai Sorcerers mutually parted company in good terms to play music in new garage bands, they still had a music profile/webpage for their fans on the Internet and they had somewhat of a legacy as individual musicians or being the band that came from City College or Wallenberg High School that played music and hung around the shopping mall or Guitar Center as the combo that created their own musical idols. Before Samurai Sorcerers went on indefinite hiatus, Patrick hired a community college friend Zack Huang to play keyboards when jamming on music as a local garage band in the studio.
The Samurai Sorcerers (minus Eddie and Shawn) would debate on their musical future as musicians playing music in a garage band. No new music or news stories were posted about the local musicians or the local band on the Internet, except Patrick planning to do a solo project called Band of Asians with some community college friends David Arceo (drums / turntables) and Augusto Hernandez (bass). In fact, there wasn't a studio recording session done by the musical group as a unit since July 2005, and the lackluster breakbeats song "Battle Royale" would be their (if not intentionally) swansong as the Samurai Sorcerers. The local musicians/artists had solo projects in their music: via Band of Asians, Eddie Blackburn's solo album...And his concert tour with his new band Logic's Enemy.
On March 10, 2006, Samurai Sorcerers' music webpage & profile was shut down, with Patrick announcing his resignation from Skyline College as a community college student and the "official" breakup of Samurai Sorcerers. Their music history and 3 year run as a garage band was now over.
Plans for the third Samurai Sorcerers studio album and sessions for the CD at School of Rage Studios were scrapped. The band Samurai Sorcerers soon evolved into Band of Asians, Patrick's new musical agenda as Band of Asians played three concerts in 2006 at Vibo Music Center (the music school Patrick got guitar lessons at), City College of San Francisco and Sony PlayStation store (in which Patrick sung karaoke on a PS2 video game). They would soon publish two albums "Revenge" and "In the Studio" on music industry websites like CDBaby.com. Eddie and Shawn continued playing music in their garage band Logic's Enemy for various concert tours across San Francisco until the band went on hiatus in late 2006. Currently Eddie is forming a musical side project with his co-workers at a supermarket.
Despite reunion rumors in late 2006 between Eddie, Shawn and Patrick to reunite the Samurai Sorcerers...None of the local musicians had got together to play music at School of Rage Studios other than a jam session at Eddie's house following a Logic's Enemy concert at a local rock & roll music & arts festival, which Patrick had shown up to play musical instruments with Eddie and Shawn for a hobby.
A demand for a Samurai Sorcerers reunion was well-documented on the local music scene and through news articles on the Samurai Sorcerers fan webpage...But it seemed as if Patrick, Eddie and Shawn's destiny as musicians were placed in their musical resume playing with their own bands. Patrick would have personal hardships after Samurai Sorcerers with his music and community college, but managed to have continuing success in the independent music scene playing music in the one-man band Band of Asians, but mostly through studio recording at his home music studio and putting his music on his music website online. Eddie and Shawn were content to be rock stars as often played live music events and gigs at teenage music festivals across San Francisco in their garage band Logic's Enemy, which for their resume, mainly played music through concerts and touring.
PART I - BIOGRAPHY
Band of Asians (or Lucifer's Sound) is an SF Bay musical group, currently playing music mostly in the home music studio rather than doing music for gigs. It includes Asian musicians (i.e. mostly Filipino, but Patrick is Taiwanese) in a rock band formed back in early 2006 at a community college.
Audio Rage plays music as a garage band in Patrick's home recording studio using computers and musical instruments they got at the local Guitar Center. The members of Audio Rage were all born in the mid 1980s and grew up in the SF Bay. The garage band Audio Rage was formed in 2004 when Taiwanese musician Patrick Lew and Italian-American guitarist Eddie Blackburn started playing music together at community college (City College of San Francisco) and high school (Wallenberg) and schoolmate Shawn Blacharski later joined to play music in a garage band with Patrick and Eddie on bass. They drove by to Guitar Center and got some cool musical instruments and begun playing music together. Audio Rage was then called "Samurai Sorcerers" and in the garage band's early days, their repertoire consisted of mainly Grunge music from bands such as Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains which they learned from Patrick's record collection of a thousand CDs and on sheet music webpages.
The trio played music together at Patrick's home recording studio and many gigs around the Daly City or SF Chinatown in their late teens. Sooner than later, Patrick's community college friend from City College...Chinese musician Zack Huang, on MIDI keyboards. They began playing music as a garage band endlessly in Patrick's music studio, the School of Rage Studios, and recorded two albums in the summer and fall of 2004. They used their musical instruments and computer applications (i.e. Apple GarageBand 2) to record their music and put their music on the Internet (i.e. PureVolume). The Audio Rage Band made a CD of garage band demos called "Psychotic Love" which showed a local garage band of teenagers playing grunge music, which was handed out to their friends in college or Haight-Ashbury stores.
When Patrick and his then-Japanese girlfriend Asuka Nagase went to Amoeba Music (used record store) to go see Jpop singer Nami Tamaki for a free concert at the local music store, where Patrick and Asuka got their CDs of Nami Tamaki autographed when meeting the musician from Japan after her musical performance at the record store's free live event, it inspired Patrick and Audio Rage to write the song "Tokyo Pop Princess." This romantic date also happened days before Patrick graduated from high school to attend community college at City College of San Francisco to study computers and music.
Audio Rage never had a drummer for their band to play music with, so Eddie used a drum machine he got from the guitar store to serve as the drummer.
In the fall of 2004, Audio Rage played music for a couple live music events at City College. Their gigs at Ori-Wave (a community college music festival) and Talent Quest 2004 (a college karaoke contest) earned Audio Rage as musicians playing music in their garage band some accomplishments and failures playing music as a garage band in the local San Francisco music scene. They also set up their music & band profile on the popular MySpace.com, and their music and the garage band Audio Rage was underappreciated by fans but adored by a cult of local rock musicians and local rock bands from across America's great independent/local music scene. Patrick also won a runner-up prize to get his music and band through Audio Rage websites heard on a MySpace.com contest called "Sexy Asian guitarists."
The band Audio Rage's "Psychotic Love" concert tour ended on February 13, 2005 at Balboa High School in the school's library for an Asian music festival which artists, bands and musicians played music. Afterwards, Audio Rage played music in Eddie's home music studio for a couple jam sessions to jam on some music to record a new album. The Audio Rage Band then put out their "Blizzard of Sound" album through their music & band profile webpages on the Internet, such as SoundClick.com. "Blizzard of Sound" was recorded in one single session at Eddie's music studio on October 23, 2004 and the garage band played music (while getting instruments at the local music store) in favor of their favorite Grunge and Guitar Virtuoso bands, Steve Vai and Pearl Jam. However sadly, problems came into the garage band. As Patrick wrote in his online journal Xanga.com, which he used to promote his music and garage band Audio Rage. While Audio Rage's music was being popular on the Internet on music industry websites like PureVolume or SoundClick.com, tensions ran within the garage band between Zack, Patrick and Eddie as they went to Guitar Center and played music at School of Rage Studios to decide how to make their third album.
At School of Rage Studios where Audio Rage played music and Patrick using computer software to write music for the new album, Patrick wanted to evolve Audio Rage from playing Grunge music as a garage band...But Eddie and Shawn thought Audio Rage should play music just like the G3 concerts and music festivals. Eddie and Shawn had another garage band to play music in, Logic's Enemy, which normally played live music events across San Francisco through teen music festivals. So Patrick mutually parted ways with Eddie and Shawn in Audio Rage, and continued Audio Rage as his revised version of the garage band. Eddie and Shawn left Audio Rage in September 2005 to play music in Logic's Enemy Band, so Patrick continued Audio Rage as his own one-man band to play music in, or recruited a couple studio musicians to play the music for the new album.
Audio Rage would play music for a couple live music events in Hong Kong during the fall of 2005. Zack and Patrick would continue playing music under the bandname Audio Rage as a revised version of a garage band.
In 2006, Patrick's friend from City College, David Arceo joined Audio Rage on turntables and drums. Patrick, David and Zack played music as Audio Rage in the School of Rage Studios to make the new album for the band Audio Rage. Meanwhile, Patrick and David were playing music in the Band of Asians, which the garage band was formed in the music club from their community college. Band of Asians would play music at Vibo Music Center on May 8, 2006 (it was Patrick's first live musical performance since February 2005) and the live music event at the guitar store Patrick lives close to was recorded for a live concert album for the Band of Asians. The Band of Asians also have many music profiles on the Internet through MySpace, SoundClick and the very popular music industry website PureVolume.com. When asked about the musical activities and career of Patrick's musical projects and bands: Band of Asians and Audio Rage...Patrick said on the Band of Asians website, he would continue playing music in Band of Asians and put out Audio Rage's third album "Revenge" once Patrick, Zack and David finish putting the music together for Audio Rage's new CD.
Instead for his musical projects and activities with his bands he played music in, Patrick laid Audio Rage/Samurai Sorcerers to rest and instead played music in his new band Band of Asians. Zack was soon gone from Audio Rage to focus on college and education...So Patrick and David were to play music in the Band of Asians for their musical projects or social life. Going to Guitar Center to pick up new musical instruments and computer software to create new songs and music with, the Band of Asians put out two albums in 2006. Their live concert at the guitar store, and the music Patrick made for Audio Rage but instead the garage band music Patrick made for Audio Rage's scrapped third album became Band of Asians' new album "Revenge" which is going to be sold on Independent music store CDBaby.com on November 15, 2006, Patrick Lew's 21st birthday.
However, Patrick did jam on music with Eddie and Shawn at Eddie's house recently. They played music and briefly reunited Audio Rage at this jam session and Patrick was e-mailing Eddie about reuniting their garage band Audio Rage to play music for live music events (gigs) or make new music in the studio, and considered bringing Patrick's college friend David Arceo on drums. Patrick even confirmed this on Band of Asians website, but time will tell if Audio Rage will play music together again as Patrick's focusing on his band Band of Asians as Eddie and Shawn does concerts with Logic's Enemy.
PART II - BIOGRAPHY
Audio Rage...The Band in the Box! We are a garage band that plays music for gigs in Chinatown! We also play music as Band of Asians in the music studio.
Audio Rage's music and garage band (i.e. computer software and musical rock instruments) was the one-man band of Patrick "Audio" Lew. He was born on November 15, 1985 in San Francisco, and grew up around music. A Taiwanese-American musician, Audio formed his first band he played music with when learning how to play electric guitar through books he got at the local guitar store. Growing up with a dysfunctional but rich Asian American family, Audio was an outsider at school and turned to music and playing music as a solution to his personal hardships.
It wasn't until 2004 when Audio was in community college at City College of San Francisco where he studied computers and music when he formed the garage band Audio Rage. He met his best friend Eddie Blackburn in an electronic music lab at the college, and jammed on guitars. Becoming fast friends, he and Eddie formed Audio Rage to jam on some music as a garage band. Audio and Eddie began playing music together at Patrick "Audio" Lew's house and set up a music studio called School of Rage. Audio was dating a Japanese girl named Mayumi at the time, and attended a free concert at Amoeba Music (record store) to see Jpop singer Nami Tamaki live. This event in Audio's life led Audio Rage to write their best song, "Tokyo Pop Princess." Audio Rage began playing live music events (gigs) at the local "Battle of the Bands" and shows at places in Daly City and San Francisco. Sooner than later, a community college friend of Eddie's named Shawn Blacharski joined Audio Rage on bass.
The garage band Audio Rage never had a drummer, so Eddie used a drum machine he picked up at a guitar store to serve as the drummer in the band when playing gigs or making music at School of Rage Studios.
Audio Rage's repertoire consisted of playing Grunge and Hair Metal music based on Audio's huge record collection of a thousand CDs he got from Amoeba Music or Green Apple Bookstore, and Audio and Eddie were both into Heavy Metal music but wanted to play music in a garage band that mixed Grunge into 1980s Heavy Metal music in their band Audio Rage...They placed a couple ads looking for a keyboardist or drummer on www.Craigslist.org, but instead got David Arceo to join Audio Rage on drums. Audio's community college friend from CCSF, Zack Huang, briefly played keyboards in the band...But left to focus on his college and education.
Playing music for gigs did help Audio Rage get their music and garage band out there, but they were underappreciated as musicians and garage band because of their unique sound. But that didn't stop Audio Rage from recording their demos and musical improvisations at School of Rage or when playing gigs. Around Audio's 19th birthday, the band Audio Rage played gigs at some City College events. Their Ori-Wave music festival gig was a disaster as the college holding the music festival, didn't like the band's music and pulled them from performing more than 2 songs at the concert.
Afterwards, Audio Rage would sign with a small independent music company, IAC Records, and put out their first studio album "Psychotic Love" which was based on their garage band recordings made at their home recording studio. "Psychotic Love" was music that was based on Audio Rage Band's endless guitar improvisations and jam sessions. While on the road touring San Francisco, they went to a near-by recording studio in the city to record a couple of Eddie's new songs, along with Eddie and Shawn's musical work which they collaborated on. Audio took part when playing music in the music studio, putting on a bare bones guitar arrangement, basic chords. He put his guitar through a portable 4-track studio and handed Eddie the CD of his guitar parts to put into the new Audio Rage album. The album was "Blizzard of Sound" and was sold in the record stores by May 2005.
Touring would end in February 2005, and the band Audio Rage decided not to play concerts or live music events for the time being. By now, tensions ran high within the garage band. Audio wanted to evolve from Audio Rage's Seattle influenced Grunge sound, while Eddie and Shawn thought the garage band should stick to playing music from their rock roots. Audio Rage had no idea where to lead the next album's musical direction, and Audio's fame in the Independent Music Scene in the SF Bay made him anxious. Eddie and Shawn played music in Audio Rage for one last minute gig in San Francisco on June 9, 2005 and in August, Eddie and Shawn left Audio Rage to focus on other musical projects.
Meanwhile, Audio and David Arceo continued playing music as the garage band Audio Rage. The musical duo began playing live music events in ther first-ever concert tour across Asia, with shows done in Hong Kong. Afterwards, Audio Rage went into the School of Rage Studios to continue work on their next studio album. In early 2006, the band Audio Rage played a couple shows in Serramonte Shopping Mall and Skyline College. Audio Rage's last concert (with Audio still alive) was at Vibo Music Center on May 8, 2006...With Augusto Hernandez on bass, whom was hired from an ad on www.MySpace.com on the music classified ads. This was also taped for a live concert album, "Band of Asians, Live!" While working on music for the next Audio Rage studio album, they went to Guitar Center to pick up musical equipment and computer programs to record it... |
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