Dexter Rotten Patrick Lew's Band.
The ""underrated"" Asian rock star and Internet musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. Making crappy music, and being the ARTIST he is.
I been making music since 2001 and I was in about 3 local Bay Area rock bands playing guitar, and recording music in the studio. I been mainly promoting my music via Internet on several different websites for independent artists or musicians trying to get heard. So far, since creating my Rock And Roll franchise as Patrick Lew's Band in 2001, making music solo and playing guitar in bands. I have released and published three studio albums solo. Two of which features musicians and schoolmates from my former bands, putting their instruments on the recordings. Basically, an amalgamation of Patrick Lew the solo musician and former projects. I feel, those records were relevant in terms of the progression and evolution of Patrick Lew's music box. I recorded a few other albums as a musician playing in my former local rock bands. Band of Asians and my high school band Silent Minister. We also played a few local shows and promoted the hell of ourselves to the music industry.
Nine years after my first year as a local Bay Area musician living the phenomenon and failures in life. The band broke up, and I was left without a choice. Attend college and get an education with a college degree. Or continue a long and frustrating journey to win that opportunity with music and art. I chose to go to school full-time at CSUEB, my University. And do music part-time by, recording new tracks at home. Then, posting it online!
It's been a year since, I have yanked myself out of the spotlight in the Bay Area music community, with all the great bands and musicians out there locally to fill the void left behind yours truly! But I will never give up! Failure is obviously....NOT AN OPTION! I will continue making music and trying to get a promoter to get me a gig anywhere I can. But what's a Dexter Rotten supposed to be?
A highly-educated ARTIST and MUSICIAN trying to succeed in life. Going to college at Cal State East Bay. Thinking of making that GRAND comeback in the music industry and Bay Area league of local musicians. After rejections from not only the record companies, music talent scouts in the capitalist headquarters. Yours truly, has been denied opportunity by former girlfriends from high school, college and from online dating websites like f***ing PlentyOfFish.com. I've been denied a college application to San Francisco State University. And became f***ing fed up with life in my former hometown of SF. It's true, even though it sounds sickening. And oh, music critics on many different websites online for independent music artists. Sickening!
Now, living in Antioch, California in my family's house at KB Homes. Taking long commutes from the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART to all over cities and towns in the East Bay to look for adventure. And little money to spare, except college loans from FAFSA for my education at CSUEB. My destiny is MUSIC and ART. And success in my life and autobiography, well maybe someday...I will write a book about my hardships and success. Hopefully.
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Why this name?
I got the bandname Dexter Rotten from taking the first and last names of two punk musicians from The Sex Pistols and The Offspring, both great bands of punk music and culture. Dexter (Holland) and (Johnny) Rotten. I decided the bandname Your Audio 2 Riot was really LAME. So to start a UNION of musicians and musical creations of all artistic talented musicians and people, I decided...To make a bandname that lives up to my Alter Ego. A rebellious failed local musician who tried to chase his opportunity in the music industry, constantly playing bad gigs and promoting my music online on many websites. Dexter Rotten is a 24-year old Bay Area musician, who fallen off the radar of the local music scene and pop culture. Went back to college at California State University, East Bay, and is fighting to bring ""social justice"" and a UNION of local American musicians online and through snail mail altogether to bring CHANGE in a capitalist musical enterprise and corrupt politicians in OFFICE! I know it sounds funny and stupid, but that's the concept of Dexter Rotten as a socialist musician in the music industry making music and trying to get his opportunity and respect.
Do you play live?
Important Gigs:
The gig that made my music known locally was a 15-minute live musical performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. For Battle of the Bands back in October 2002 with my high school band. This was basically, the musical experience I would never forget. Handing out flyers and pamphlets of our website to the audience. Some of our concert was bootlegged through a friend on a Walgreens tape recorder. Some other important gigs were doing an Electronic Tape Recital at my former music school, Vibo Music Center. On May 8th 2006. Which also became my first (and only) live album to date, Band of Asians, Live! Mixing theater with digital music technology, which were like experimental sound collages. The largest crowd I played for was with Band of Asians at the Golden Gate Park in SF for a Christian church festival. Which happened on August 11th 2007. Since my former bands disbanded or moved onto new future projects and personal lives, I been a solo musician. But haven't played live due to seriousness with college. I mainly, record in the studio.
Awards:
My music has been placed in 2nd rounds for Soundclick.com music contests for artists on their website to record a piece of music and send it in for a special contest for musicians. I was voted off before the final round though. I was named 2006 (or 2007?) ""Artist of the Year"" by Dmusic for constant promotion and groundbreaking experiences as a musician. I also, with my high school band, was December 2004 ""Band of the Month"" on a tribute website to '80s glam metal music and nostalgia.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
I would actually. It's a dream for me other than putting my music online on websites like this, to actually get to play shows across the universe and record better versions of my tunes. I worked sort of hard before taking college seriously to get my music out there, but the only question is, ""Will they offer me the opportunity or other talented bands out there fairly?""
Your influences?
My biggest musical influences has to be the bands I grew up listening to on the radio, MTV and their records on the turntable. The first band I liked was The Beatles when I was a baby, because my mom was a big fan of them and saw them live in concert in Hong Kong back in 1964 during Beatlemania. I officially got into music when I was like 6 years old and enjoyed 1980s hair metal, Bay Area punk/thrash and the Seattle grunge scene. Such bands I liked were Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green Day, Motley Crue and more. When I started my high school band, I did my share of listening to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. And some Nu Metal bands like KoRn and Limp Bizkit along with some J-Rock like X Japan and L'Arc-En-Ciel. I stopped listening to mainstream music around 2006, as I went on the Internet to find new bands to check out as I turned off the TV and radio because of my dislike for the current music scene in pop culture.
Favorite spot?
East Bay, California. Places in general? My school, CSUEB of the CSU college system. Other places I like are, the Guitar Hut and EB Games. If anything, I love ROMANCE! Meaning, I enjoy being in love with a girlfriend if I had one. Since I am sort of an enigmatic wanderer in society. Guess because, I can't meet girls in reality at school or any social event. I guess I stick to my dating websites and personal ads online. F***!
Equipment used:
Teaching Music:
I am mainly a primitive musician, my experience as far as I am concerned is. Mainly composing, playing rhythm guitar in rock bands and constantly promoting my music and franchise online and locally here in the East Bay. I know little music theory and cannot read standard musical notation, or sheet music. I do everything through tablature. I do however, know the technological aspects of guitar and musical gear. And what it can do. I taught guitar to my childhood friend, Joseph Lee. Helping him out with the aspects of guitar gear. Like how to change strings, tune the guitar and etc. I showed him a few power chords, since I normally use basic or power chords to write songs. So yeah! I do further train myself to know more about music, whether it be songwriting/composition or recording elements. Or go to college to do that!
Software Skills:
I did most of my early work as a musician and composer on 4-track Portastudios. From 2001 to 2003 when creating music alone or with my high school band. As time went on, I read lots of recording and musician magazines to find out what gear I need to beef up and enhance my recordings and sound as Patrick Lew's Band. My best friend from City College, Zack Huang, inspired me to move to using digital music technology to record demos and create new sounds electronically. I spent a lot of money to do so, to fundraise state-of-the-art software to make music with. And a lot more for new guitars, amps and effects pedals. I recorded in a real recording studio by the time of Patrick Lew's Band's second album ""Revenge"" and we used a lot of digital editing and elements of using software to create music or consolidate the elements of the music. We used rock band instruments still, but we learned stuff like! Backwards tape, looping and programming electronic instruments on software. Years after, I been using FL Studio to compose music for Film and Video Game ideas. And, recorded most of my demos and songwriting ideas on Cubase, Sonar and Apple GarageBand at home.
Anything else...?
No. That's all.
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Music MySpace - www.MySpace.com/PatrickLewsBand
MySpace - www.MySpace.com/AudioRage66
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=50352496
AIM = YourAudio2Riot
MySpace == > www.myspace.com/audiorage66
MUSIC PAGES
www.soundclick.com/dexterrotten
www.soundclick.com/patricklewsband
www.purevolume.com/dexterrotten
Recordings:
I made up to 265 recordings of music. Mostly unfinished works of art, sketches or jam sessions I did with my former bands in the studio. At least a good estimate of 80 or 90 of those click tracks I did as a musician since 2001, well. Are considered finished products of recorded music by yours truly. I tend to be a perfectionist when recording new music or albums, so the time gets painstaking to put out new music. Because I want to better my art and sound, and do music that wouldn't repeat sounds from past recordings and efforts. So it takes me longer than usual to put out new music today, because I am filled with so many priorities in life such as school and family. I am having a bad case of songwriter’s block as a musician to write new songs or compose new music. I feel a bit pressured, if so.
Work Experience:
For paying jobs, I worked at a comic book store as a teenager in high school called Heroes Club in Clement Ave in SF. I had a brief but fun job at Tower Records, when the record store was closing down their retailers and having a blowout sale. I guess, they were desperate for new employers before Tower Records went out of business. I tried to get a few paying jobs here and there. Such as applying for a job at Guitar Center, but ended up hurtfully rejected. And the Disney store in downtown SF, which is now closed and today a Borders. I tried but unsuccessful got a part-time job that pays. So I earn most of my money to survive through my royalties off my music on Digital Distribution on iTunes and Napster. And allowances from my parents, $100 each weekly. And of course! Receiving financial Aid for college education.
Education:
I learned music mostly at the Vibo Music Center and a Chinese music school on Sunset of my former hometown of SF.
As far as education goes, I went to Raoul Wallenberg High School from June 2000 to June 3rd 2004. It was where I got my high school diploma, started my high school band and went through a number of good and bad experiences during high school!
I hate to say it but, I didn't get into a 4-year college or university after high school. I went to City College of San Francisco for one year from August 2004 to September 2005, but hated and wasn't ready or well-prepared for college life at the time. Community college wasn’t what my idea of a dream really was like. So I left to focus on music for one year. Recording and playing music to the public. And promoting my works of art online. I went to Skyline College briefly in early 2006 but left on bad terms because the bullshit revision of high school in a community college. I went back to CCSF, and left there on bad terms. Mainly because I didn't receive my Associates Degree for CSU G.E. Transfer like promised.
And then in the summer of 2008, I finally transferred to a University in Cal State East Bay under the CSU school system. Studying for a BA in Philosophy and doing some music on the side. I am currently enjoying college life at a 4-year school and having the time of my life!
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