Audio Rage, the computer band project was brought together by Patrick Lew long after his circle of friends (Samurai Sorcerers) at Wallenberg High left him on his own to create his masterpiece of new music, “Revenge.” Now he was doing all the instrumentation by himself along with his performances. Other musicians were brought in for touring and live performing purposes from his circle of friends @ college or online ads..
Mainly a rock & roll project done by a computer, Audio Rage was the one-man band and musical concept of Patrick Lew. Patrick Allan Lew was born November 15, 1985, in San Francisco. An Asian American of Taiwanese and Japanese ancestry, he showed promise as a creative artist and musician but not as a stereotypical Asian child. Even more so, Patrick stated his childhood was mostly tumultuous. Patrick was an outsider at school and was teased by other children for being “different” and “unique.” But while Patrick’s school life was sort of difficult, he acted small roles in many theatrical plays and became an avid Beatles fan. His interest in music came as an answer to his anti-social life, as he got into rock & roll before reaching 5th grade. At the age of fourteen, Patrick got a guitar and began teaching himself through books. He also worked at a comic book store and worked at the Cherry Blossom festival at Japantown as a teenager. Eventually, Patrick became a computer geek and began teaching himself how to use various computer applications and working on his own music for hours.
He spent his high school years as a well-appreciated student from his classmates on campus at Wallenberg High. It was here where he studied computers and drama, but failed many of his academic courses. Also around this time, he was discovering J-Pop and assorted underground music. Patrick spent a year at City College of San Francisco studying music and broadcasting, but left the community college to escape his past and began playing music more than attending class studying for exams.
As a musician who studied music as a teenager, Patrick was desperate to form a serious band of musicians making good music. Patrick met Eddie Blackburn in his drama class at school, and the two became musician buddies but also had a share of differences as musicians or schoolmates. Patrick Lew soon called upon his best friend Asuka Mayumi Nagase to join along Eddie and him on bass, and founded the school band Samurai Sorcerers. Patrick knew Mayumi from the Japanese club at school, and the two also dated for a short time. Samurai Sorcerers soon began promoting their music via internet, and band practice occurred at Patrick or Eddies house every other week where music would be played through Eddies bone shredding guitar skills or Patrick and Mayumi's storytelling songs.
Samurai Sorcerers never had a drummer, so a drum machine was used which Eddie picked up at a Guitar Center shop. In 2003, the rock trio created a demo tape in Patricks bedroom Psychotic Love. Their first concert took place at the street corner of a subway station in downtown SF. Since the band rarely were booked for gigs, they did whatever a starving musician could do. They played some stuff, even if no one paid attention.
Samurai Sorcerers was a group famous for not only music, but Patrick Lew's personal life as his romantic woes were put for the world to see on Xanga.com which would be the start of Patricks drug abuse and depression. The music of Samurai Sorcerers could be best described as Grunge meets Hair-Metal. As of today in 2006, the music and websites of Samurai Sorcerers is always available via internet.
Patrick would do most of the gigs alone for Samurai Sorcerers and played instruments and sung on most songs for only 2 albums: Psychotic Love and Blizzard of Sound.
Unfortunately, Patrick graduated from Wallenberg in June 2004 and headed off to community college. He didnt feel he belonged anywhere not just as a musician or artist, but as a person. After two or three years of a social life with them, Samurai Sorcerers called it quits in August 2005. In reaction to being booted from playing in local bands with real-life musicians, he replaced the musicians with a computer program he got from Best Buy. This became School of Audio Rage, Patrick Lew's alternative to Samurai Sorcerers.
Since then, musician Patrick has been filming, recording and touring with his one-man virtual band Audio Rage. You can find lots of Samurai Sorcerers websites on the internet by searching on GOOGLE. The Samurai Sorcerers broke up after long periods of no jam sessions or band practices in Patricks house, and Patrick subsequently jammed with other local garage bands on guitar but was booted out for his amateur musicianship.
As School of Audio, which the bandname was taken from Patricks obsession with heavy rock & roll music being played on his portable mp3 player, he began producing his own Beatles-inspired compositions through 21st century technology, the computer, playing all the instruments himself. Although he is in such a state of creative lull at this moment, Patrick managed to cobble up the demo tapes he made of new material, and began posting it on various artist showcase websites. The mp3 podcast singles Asian Woman Blues and Revenge earned the School of Audio Rage and Patrick good reception and became a fixture on mp3 downloads. Sooner than later, his music was promoted on fan-made websites to some bands he liked, The Beatles and Poison.
As Audio Rage began showcasing their musical work on various websites and with Patrick Lew getting expelled from Skyline College, Patrick and his one-man band Audio Rage moved to his bedroom and assembled a studio from $1,500 worth of equipment and musical instruments bought from junk shops to Guitar Center to record Audio Rage’s album “The Chronicles of Revenge.” In the meantime, Patrick Lew in the meantime, began collaborating with his Skyline College pal David "Knuckles" Arceo to create a non-Samurai Sorcerers side project called Fatal Fury, which the musical duo and project specializes in making video game soundtracks and dance/electronica in Patrick's bedroom during social gatherings at his house on a weekend when school is out. David Arceo also gave Patrick Lew his NEW nickname, Audio, after his musical group.
The planned musical project FATAL FURY eventually evolved into a FUN BAND called the Band of Skyline Asians, which Patrick's musician friends from his former college Skyline joined him to play music in his home studio for jam sessions and band practices. It eventually resulted in School of Audio's first DEMO (Audio, music not the musician/artist Patrick Lew!) CD of avant-garde conceptual music.
Currently, Audio the musician is a student back at City College and is putting together an Asian rock & roll group with some musicians and students during his time at Skyline College which during his time there, he had musician friends and been re-connecting with them on MySpace. But in the meantime, GOOGLE in "Samurai Sorcerers" to find more websites dedicated to Audio or his music and bands.
Why this name?
Audio Rage, the bandname came to me when I was listening to my MP3 player which I got during a trip to Hong Kong last year. I've been mostly putting on heavy metal and punk music, hard rock & roll stuff from my computer in MP3 file folders onto this portable MP3 thingy that's not as good as an iPod. I am a computer geek, yes. But the concept of Audio Rage is music is religion, and the emotions come out of the stuff you are hearing from the music (religion). I used to play in a garage band with my buddies from high school, but they have since went on with their lives so I do Audio Rage either with me and a computer or with my buddies from Skyline.
Somehow when my friends from Skyline came along a bandname change came. School of Audio Rage (SOAR) came from us musician friends from Skyline. It basically evolved into a project where me and my friends at school hired each other to play instruments for Audio Rage, and we became a school of musicians (or people) devoted to music as a religion as we bring our guitars to school and just jam. But GOOGLE in "Samurai Sorcerers" or
"Patrick Lew" for more fan sites for me and my music.
Do you play live?
Audio Rage does street corner gigs like in downtown SF at the school cafeteria every now and then with me and my buddies from Skyline College. Most of the stuff me and my computer does comes from the fans who like my music and the showcases we do online.
In Skyline after school, me and my Asian friends from this better-than-average community college campus hang around in the cafteria upstairs to play guitar with each other and learn new things on our instruments. Me, Anthony, David and a bunch of other friends of ours from Skyline hang around the cafeteria just chilling and playing music, ya know. Sometimes we got to Serramonte the mall after school to play at the bus stop for coins and Haight-Ashbury the same.
Every now and then, SOAR jams with each other with a shifting cast of friends taking over on instruments whenever we play a gig in the cafeteria at school. But since getting exeplled from Skyline, I do with just a computer and myself replacing the fun with friends.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It's worth a shot. Bands and musicians can host themselves on their own websites since the 21st century and Y2K scare, and because MP3s are valuable to promoting your music online....It's gonna build you a following. Many people around the globe use the internet and computers and stuff. So that's why it changed the way music can be presented. Now A & R dudes are looking for talent on websites now to showcase....Thank god for new technology and the 21st century!
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Depends on how they will showcase the music or promotes bands and artists, and it better be a good contract. But not until I finish college. But I rather get my "virtual" band Samurai Sorcerers/Audio Rage signed to a major record company instead than side project with my Skyline friend Knuckles, Fatal Fury.
Your influences?
I'm a musician but I get my music as an everyday hobby at used record stores or online shopping like Amazon.com. If it was an unknown musician, band or artist, I go on websites like PureVolume.com or places like this to get HOT new local music.
Favorite spot?
Being at my house...Going out with my friends in the city, stocked up with anything I can imagine at home to play guitar and get artistic. Second, would have to be my wife that looks like the TV/movie star Ashley Tisdale at the CITY.
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3/23/2006 4:00:30 AM
School of Audio Rage, here is your student and he’s the musician looking to make it big, Patrick Lew!
HOW TO CONTACT ME & AUDIO RAGE! E-mail : xxpoeticboyxx@yahoo.com, AIM = Guns N Samurai, Websites @ www.soundclick.com/samuraisorcerers, www.myspace.com/samuraisorcerers & www.purevolume.com/audiorageformerlysamuraisorcerers
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