| Musical success, New band and Controversy
The musical activities of Patrick Lew and Eddie Blackburn came back in schedule around May 2005 as the musicians from the counterculture rock band Samurai Sorcerers got together to play music again for band practices at Eddie’s house as the “reunited” group of the band came together to make music and songs for a new studio album. Now, the “art school” ensemble of best musician friends were using computers along with various musical instruments to make a new album.
Fans were excited about it. Unfortunately this would prove to be the end of the “Wallenberg High” era and version of the band.
On popular social-networking website MySpace.com, Patrick Lew won runner-up prize for a “Sexy Asian musicians” contest to get their bands showcased on their website. The alternate band project and that music they made back in October 2004 was finally released as “The Blizzard of Sound” under the bandname “Silent Minister.” It met with bad results as Eddie was not happy with the finished musical product, and when the DMD was being sold on the Samurai Sorcerers website…It immediately got taken down.
Some would say this caused a growing tension between Patrick and his friend Eddie. It actually did. On June 8, 2005, the last public performance of the Wallenberg High version of the Samurai Sorcerers occurred at Riordan High’s school gym. The Samurai Sorcerers by now, had many and various personal webpages online to showcase their band and music.
Eddie Blackburn and Shawn Blacharski left the Samurai Sorcerers band camp in August 2005. They went onto form the new band Logic’s Enemy. Patrick Lew however, kept the Samurai Sorcerers as his one-man musical group and “official” solo project in his music.
The College Years (2005 - present)
A trip to the music store was what Audio did to get his musical instruments and computer applications created the musical group. formerly known as Samurai Sorcerers now called Audio Rage.
BACK IN TIME on May 8, 2004, Audios band of high school musicians Samurai Sorcerers were the most infamous band in the Bay Area as they played music for gigs across the CITY. Tens of few had stayed at the playground or school talent show to cash in on Audio and Eddie Blackburns Samurai Sorcerers play that show in support of their album Psychotic Love which was due out around Christmas. The album Psychotic Love finally was available through the Samurai Sorcerers and Audios website. The one that started it all! But by the summer of 2005 their fortunes and careers had changed. After 3 years of drug addiction, musical controversies, onstage tantrums and occasional drama, their members began to drift away fast, their co-leader Audio had become bogged down in personal hardships, and The Blizzard of Sound, a collection of rock n roll songs recorded in Eddies house, had been released to mixed reviews and disappointing sales.
The members of Audios band of Samurai Sorcerers what was left of it emerged at Eddies house to begin the band practice. A room with a pool table and two video game consoles, they began to prepare for their next album, which the group expected to release some time the next year. But what was once music and rock ensemble magic quickly began suffering from an illness that has proved fatal to bands from time onwards immemorial: BOREDOM. Mr. Patrick Lew himself tried to hire new musicians by placing ads in the local newspaper, and that proved to be a disaster with bad results. Mr. Patrick Lew (Audio) had appointed himself the leader of the project along with Eddie as well, but Audio didnt seem to know where to lead. As Eddie Blackburn, the bands longtime session/onstage guitarist, thought the starving artists songwriting style along with the procrastinations at band practice fatiguing. Audio also enrolled at City College of San Francisco studying music and media/electronic arts, there was the school where Patrick Lew studied music and electronic arts, and made a concerted most unsuccessful effort to fit in socially with other students. Working a part-time job at a comic book store, he barely had enough money to survive in purchasing new instruments at the local guitar store. He tried his hand going to Skyline College, but got supsended for a FIGHT he had with another kid. An electronica mix called Battle Royale, released on Samurai Sorcerers website, would be the last addition to the original ROCK BANDs catalog. Eddie and bassist Shawn quit the band on August 2005, and so did the Asian girls who played the instruments for the Samurai Sorcerers anime show. Of the founding members and survivors, Audio was just left.
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