Audio Rage...The Band in the Box! We are a garage band that plays music for gigs in Chinatown!
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.
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