Posted by  Patrick in on September 23, 2007 at 5:41 AM
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Tapeworms of Rage was the local musical side project of Band of Asians that existed in a variety of different local musicians since the mid-2000s. Considered to be the alternative for Patrick Lew to play music outside the Band of Asians, Tapeworms of Rage never officially started playing music together or recorded anything in the studio. Patrick referenced his concept of forming a musical side project in various interviews, as early as late 2005.
Tapeworms of Rage:
The musical origins for the Tapeworms was during the studio recording times for Band of Asians demo tape "Revenge" around August 2005 in Band in the Box. Band of Asians was evovling from their high school Garage Band music and stopped touring and playing music live in public in order to focus on recording studios to make better music. The high school version of Band of Asians with guitarist Eddie Blackburn and bassist Shawn Blacharski mutually quit the high school garage band version of Band of Asians to work on music solo, but keyboardist Zack Huang and leader Patrick Lew remained. Zack persuaded Patrick to split Band of Asians into 2 different musical projects in the local music community. Band of Asians being Patrick's one man band and solo project. And an Alternative to making music solo as a musician in a REAL garage band called the Tapeworms of Rage.
Band of Asians spent the last 2 to 3 years in the local & independent music industry touring and fulfilling education in college and high school which prevented the NOW one man band of the Electronic musician Patrick Lew to make better music in the recording studio. Disputes with their former record company, Statue Records led the Band of Asians to distribute and publish their music independently on the Internet on personal computers. 2005 was a grueling year for Band of Asians as Patrick struggled with a divorce from his high school girlfriend Amy Shawn along with depression and drug abuse. The quality of their musical performances and tape recitals locally when touring suffered as a result, despite the accolades the Band of Asians earned for their music in contests. Patrick was out of high school for about a year, and was going to City College of SF to study music and computer programming where he met Zack Huang in his college computer lab. Zack joined the Band of Asians in May 2005, when Eddie and Shawn were still band members and musicians in the roster. After a month of band practices at Band in the Box and Eddie's home in the Marina village in San Francisco, the local music promoters booked Band of Asians to play a show at Chinatown's Li-Po Lounge on June 9, 2005. This would be the last "official" concert that Band of Asians would play in a club, playground outdoor festival or recreational center for almost 2 years.
Eddie and Shawn, disagreed with the Band of Asians new musical direction into Electronic Music and using computer music software and newer musical instruments and hardware to make NEW music which didn't capture the Nu Metal/J-Rock garage band music of their high school days. Two weeks after the ill-fated Chinatown concert, Eddie and Shawn ditched Band of Asians to form their own local garage band Sapien and began playing shows locally in Daly City and San Francisco for the KLC Music Company. When that occured, Patrick and Zack had to build an Alternative musical group to Band of Asians by placing ads in the newspaper and Craigslist.org to audition musicians and recruit new band members to play music with. In August, a very drugged out Patrick Lew and Zack Huang hired a guitarist Mark Hawkins from their "Making the Garage Band" ad on Craigslist. The Tapeworms were founded, and Patrick's high school friend Gray Eser was the singer in the local Garage Band called Tapeworms of Rage.
However, as they were shopping in the music and computer stores for more synthesizers, software and guitars...guitarist Mark Hawkins abruptly left the band. Gray, Patrick and Zack remained in Tapeworms. On September 4, 2005, the Tapeworms got together for a musical jam session at Gray's home in the Richmond village of San Francisco where he lived close to an old Wherehouse Music record store. They also published their music webpages on the Internet. However as of 2008, many of the Tapeworms websites on the Internet are either closed or they never revised new versions of their websites leaving them outdated.
Tapeworms soon fell out. Patrick went to Skyline College and formed a music department club and met Drum N' Bass DJ, Dave Arceo, in the Electronic Music Lab. Serving as his best friend and long-time collaborator in Band of Asians. Patrick spent most of 2006 recording the "Revenge" album in a variety of recording studios. The Band of Asians (Patrick Lew's solo musical project) and his CD "Revenge" was being distributed and published through local music community DIY and a variety of online "indie" music communities on his personal computer by Patrick Lew's 21st birthday. Although Band of Asians had retired from live concerts, they did conducted an Electronic Music Workshop at Patrick's former music school the Vibo Music Center on May 8th, 2006 where Patrick and sidemen musicians Augusto Hernandez and Dave Arceo made music on computer softwares, musical instruments, turntables and a synthesizer before the Tape Recital.
As 2007 rolled around, Tapeworms came back to Patrick's hobby of music and musical career/resume. Now sober from drugs and solving his depression, Patrick met his ex-girlfriend Alky Marcella on an online dating website PlentyofFish.com and scheduled a jam session on their first date at Band in the Box music workshop. A few weeks later, Patrick persuaded his WWE and professional wrestling buddy Cory Gaitan, who worked at City College of SF's bookstore...to join Tapeworms. Dave also joined the Tapeworms on drums after he sent a text message on Patrick's cell phone to meet him, Cory and Alky at the Serramonte Music.
Tapeworms was alternatively known to Cory, Patrick and Dave as Power Trip. They did publish their music page on the social-networking website MySpace.com for their music community. From April to June 2007, the Tapeworms of Rage (or Power Trip) went into 16th and Mission's Bank Music Studios to record a couple band practices and musical improvisations. This would be published on the Internet through the Tapeworms music websites and profiles on indie music webpages.
Zack rejoined Tapeworms in July. Cory booked studio time at Oakland Studios with his paychecks from working at City College of SF. They also tried contacting local music promoters to book the Tapeworms for a local concert tour by December of 2007. Unfortunately. The idea fell apart when Cory moved overseas and the rest of the Garage Band had personal hardships to deal with. Tapeworms was once again locked in the musical library in the local music community where the book can't be found.
It is rumored that Patrick is at City College of SF and CSU East Bay college looking for musicians to revise a new version of the Tapeworms to find a PURE alternative of a band to play music in. His revision was not to create a Garage Band of big famous local musicians or established names but look for like-minded musicians from his colleges to play in a band with. He is considering having his good friends to get together at Band in the Box and jam on some music.
The Bank Studios demo tape that the Tapeworms recorded remains unfinished but the Garage Band versions of the music has been leaked on a variety of Tapeworms websites on the Internet.
Musician Profiles - Patrick "Audio" Lew
Musician: Patrick "Audio" Lew
Member of: Audio Rage, Lucifer's Sound
Instruments: Guitar, Keyboards
DOB: Nov 15, 1985
A long-time rock & roll music fan growing up in the Chinatown of the Bay Area, Patrick Lew first got started in the music industry in his pre-teens as he began teaching himself through books and at Vibo Music Center to play the electric guitar. As he schooled himself to play guitar, he soon found himself in public high school studying computers and art at Wallenberg. Desperate to form a serious hard rock band, he put an ad in the school newspaper to look for some boys or girls that might be interested. Working part-time at the comic book store and with the Japanese community center, he finally got the garage band started in the fall of 2002, as 17-year old Asian rock musician Patrick Lew met 14-year old guitar virtuoso Eddie Blackburn.
Together they formed the band Lucifer's Sound, Patrick Lew's high school garafe band and one of the best groups he ever jammed on music with. At first, they didn't have a drummer or bass player...So Eddie used musical equipment he got at Guitar Center to keep the rhythm. Together Lucifer's Sound made a fusion of styles into their sound: alt-rock, heavy metal, punk, electronica and others...The band camp's sound and image (multicultural rock ensemble of musicians in thrift-store clothing) was ahead of its time, although their music and band was very underrated.
Some time in early 2003, Patrick's best friend from the Japanese pop culture club at the school, Asuka "Mayumi" Nagase, joined Lucifer's Sound band camp as the bassist. What followed was a year of "Making the Band" at Patrick's house as they tried to began 14 months of band practices to make a documentary of the musicians' musical and personal lives from Wallenberg High through these social activities. As Patrick's personal life was exposed on his online journal and social-networking website profiles...The band almost fell apart as his well-documented personal problems with love & romance, followed by school...
It wasn't until May 2004 when the Lucifer's Sound band actually begun their musical activities as a real rock & roll band. They began making their own personal webpage for their music and band, and what happened was a live tour across the San Francisco as a "starving musicians" band. They did play many gigs at Wallenberg High for theater class, which Patrick was set to graduate and get his high school diploma. A memorable romantic date between Patrick and Mayumi to see J-Pop singer Nami Tamaki for a free concert at Amoeba Records on May 31, 2004 inspired the band to write one of their best songs, "Tokyo Pop Princess."
The rest of the year saw the band doing small-scale performances in the cheapest of places for bands to play music, and recording two albums in the studio. Mayumi left the band in August for school, and quickly was replaced by Shawn Blacharksi on bass guitar. The band soon began to mutually be away from each other doing their own projects, and the band toured community college theaters for the "Psychotic Love" album tour in late 2004. The album from Lucifer's Sound itself, "Psychotic Love," was being sold on their music & personal website.
The tour ended on February 13, 2005 at Balboa High, and Patrick met his then-girlfriend Yoshiko Kuwamoto at one of his rare musical performances. Patrick would be reclusive until May focusing on music and college as career occupations.
During the spring of 2005, the Lucifer band of musicians were working on new music together...Even hiring keyboardist and Patrick's community college friend Zack Huang to take part in the studio for the sessions. Heading to a local music store to get prepared, the Lucifer's Sound played music but never made the music in their home musical workshop on the computer. The band was linked with old bandmate Mayumi at the Wallenberg High c/o 2005 graduation at Riordan School, Patrick began to tease a solo career and drama within his group although it never went anywhere. However on August 10, 2005, Lucifer's Sound announced on their personal webpage and newsletter that Patrick Lew and the other musicians of Lucifer's Sound band roster agreed to part ways to do their own musical projects.
After spending some time working on a solo project under the bandname "Audio Rage," Patrick began placing ads in local music newspapers and magazines searching for a "new band" of musicians to jam on music with. He had then revised his personal webpages into his own DJ Audio Rage project as the Lucifer's Sound band parted company in August 2005 to do other musical activities and projects. Patrick recruited a guitar player from one of his "musician wanted" ads off the Craigslist.org website Mark Hawkins to play session musician for the Audio Rage solo project of Patrick Lew's music and social life. It didn't last long, but Patrick spent much of his money on new musical equipment from Guitar Center and Best Buy along with some CDs at Rasputin Records. Audio Rage would play several house show musical performances in the fall of 2005 in the SF Bay.
Spending some time playing gigs and promoting Audio Rage in Korea and Taiwan in the fall of 2005, Patrick Lew began working on new music through his solo project Audio Rage. He then formed "Band of Asians" in 2006 with Asian musicians and friends he met at his community college. They recorded and released a live EP titled "Band of Asians" in the studio in May 2006. He remains active in Ban d of Asians and on his own solo project under the "Audio Rage" name. He also released another solo album with Audio Rage, "Revenge {Demo}," which he made the music on a computer along with him playing all the various musical instruments. It contains songs he recorded for the "lost Lucifer's Sound" album in mid-2005 when he was still a musician/bandmember playing music in the band, but didn't get to finish with Eddie and Shawn as he left the musical group a few months later to form his own project Audio Rage.
The Lucifer's Sound "lost album" remains a mystery of many die-hard Audio Rage/Patrick Lew/Lucifer's Sound fans, and might be released as a Beatles "Anthology" gift or boxed set collection of history flyers and music in the future.
On August 7, 2006, Patrick attended his old bandmates from his Lucifer's Sound band Eddie and Shawn's gig at the local public library for the Renegade Youth Media film & arts festival, but only to visit his old friends and ex-bandmembers that were musicians from his old musical group/project Lucifer's Sound, as the musical project known as Lucifer now only consists of Eddie and Shawn playing music in the band. Although Patrick did jam on some music with Lucifer's Sound on September 18, 2006 at Eddie's music studio for a jam session, hinting rumors of a possible Lucifer's Sound reunion. But Patrick currently remains playing music in his band Audio Rage.
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