Posted by  Patrick in on May 27, 2007 at 1:33 AM
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Musician Statistics:
Musician: "Renegade" Patrick Lew
Real Name: Patrick Allan Lew
Birthday: November 15, 1985
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Marital Status: It's Complicated (eat your heart out, girls!)
Height: 6' 1'' - 135 lbs
Trained by: Ahmed Drief (guitar), Bob Davis (music funadmentals)
Debut: 2001
Previous Gimmicks: Silent Minister (Samurai Sorcerers, 2002 - 2005), Audio (Samurai Sorcerers & Band of Asians, 2006), Renegade (Band of Asians, 2006 - Present), DJ Ryusuke
Instruments: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Songwriter
Other Instruments: Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Computer
Associated Bands: Band of Asians (2001, 2006 - Present), Samurai Sorcerers (2002 - 2006), Power Trip (2007)
In the Beginning:
"Renegade" Patrick Lew started musical instruments and a music career by forming a garage band called Band of Asians in Daly City. Also, Lew had previously been a classical musician playing musical instruments such as violin and piano in a few school orchestras. Once he learned electric guitar when he purchased a guitar at a Guitar Center at age 14, he learned guitar through books and 1 month in electric guitar workshops by Ahmed Drief at the Vibo Music Center.
Band of Asians was mostly Patrick Lew's own band & music. It remained inactive once he begun playing music in a couple of short-lived local SF Bay bands with anonymous musicians and his musical resume for 4 years in Samurai Sorcerers until 2006, when he gone solo musician.
Samurai Sorcerers:
The Samurai Sorcerers spent a few years playing music in local garage bands as amateur musicians to the local music scene before forming the musical group that made them famous.
The Sorcerers begun playing music at Patrick's home recording studio and some live music events (gigs) at local recreational centers and often jammed at guitar stores and at school together.
Samurai Sorcerers got their huge break once they began promoting their music on the Internet through various music webpages for "unknown" local musicians & bands and published their music on their band/music profile along with an extensive biography and Q & A interview describing their music to the world. This led to the Sorcerers earning a publishing/recording contract with a small record company called Statue Records in 2003.
The original version of the Sorcerers' musician roster was Patrick Lew (rhythm guitar, vocals), Eddie Blackburn (guitar) and Asuka "Mayumi" Nagase (bass guitar). They used a drum machine from a guitar store as a backup instrument for the band.
On May 10, 2003, the Sorcerers played a show at School of the Arts for a small high school talent show.
July 22, 2003 saw the Sorcerers publish their demo tape "Live! Like a Garage Band" which included Garage Band music the Sorcerers recorded on a portable 4-track studio inside Patrick's music studio for their musical resume. Only 25 copies of this demo/mixtape were manufactured and duplicated and were handed out to their schools and family. "Live! Like a Garage Band is now a RARE collectors item that could be worth a fortune at a record shop.
On May 31, 2004, Patrick and Mayumi went to go see Jpop singer Nami Tamaki for a FREE live music event at the Amoeba Music, an independent record store. They met the famous Japanese girl after the show and received autographed posters, flyers and CDs. This led to the Sorcerers to record their most well-known songs, "Tokyo Pop Princess."
The Sorcerers would play music together as a TEAM for the next 2 years in the recording studio and in public. For live music events (gigs) across San Francisco and Daly City.
Samurai Sorcerers - On His Own:
Summer 2004, Patrick begun looking for musicians to play their instruments for his revised version of Band of Asians by placing an ad on Craigslist.org. It eventually didn't work out with the Asian musicians he received e-mails from.
The Renegade himself, Patrick Lew, graduated from high school and went onto community college. But he was suffering from depression and drug abuse. As well as nagging injuries from failed love & romance relationships with girls he met at school and on social-networking websites on the Internet, such as MySpace.com.
Patrick was also a member of the City College of San Francisco's now-defunct "Band Originals" community college club to encourage musicians at school to promote their band & music.
November 19, 2004, Patrick Lew of the Samurai Sorcerers play a show at Talent Quest 2004 at City College of San Francisco. Eddie and Shawn were absent because of intra-band solo musician projects. This version of the Sorcerers included 2 Asian girls as backup musicians: Janet Wang and Mony Ngin. When playing music for the community college concert.
On December 11, 2004, Patrick and the Sorcerers were supposed to play at City College of San Francisco's "Ori-Wave" local rock concert for the community college. But was stripped from playing music for the local music scene in the Diego Rivera Theater! Patrick was embarrassed being USED as an usher for the school concert, and instead passed out flyers and news articles to the crowd to "insult" the Band Originals club!
Early 2005 saw Patrick discussing the possibility of becoming a DJ making computer music and purchased several computer programs (digital music software) at Best Buy. He began dubbing himself, "DJ Ryusuke" as an alter ego. The "DJ Ryusuke" concept and musical profile on various "Renegade" Patrick Lew music websites on the Internet was very short-lived and no longer exist in the library.
Patrick took some time off of music to devote himself to an on-and-off again relationship with a Japanese girl named Yoshiko. Whom he met at one of his concerts with the Sorcerers.
Samurai Sorcerers - The Sorcerers Reunion!
Patrick, Eddie and Shawn (Mayumi's replacement on bass guitar) were back in the local music scene as they headed into the recording studio and music workshop to record new music for the local garage band.
In mid-2005, the Sorcerers were "dropped" from Statue Records due to personal disputes with the small music company.
They purchased a couple new instruments at various music & guitar stores. One which included Patrick Lew's very own 1962 "HotWheels" Epiphone Les Paul which he purchased at Guitar Center for a birthday gift. This NEW electric guitar would be used mainly throughout Patrick's musical resume and the associated bands he played music in.
Patrick's community college friend, Zack Huang, joined the Sorcerers on MIDI keyboards.
In May 2005, the Sorcerers were at Eddie's home recording studio working on music for a possible studio album. They also publish their 2nd album "Blizzard of Sound" on various Sorcerers band/music webpages on the Internet for FREE.
On June 9, 2005, the Sorcerers play a concert at the Chinatown YMCA. Patrick went home, shocked to discover his grandmother died.
Afterwards, Eddie and Shawn decided to leave the Sorcerers to pursue their musical resumes and hobbies in their new local band, Sapien, who mostly plays music for live music shows in San Francisco.
Samurai Sorcerers - Patrick & Zack:
Summer of 2005 saw the revised Sorcerers musical group as Patrick and Zack slowly began to build a new Band in the Box around them (Band in the Box was a glossary Zack used to define a One Man Band using computers and musical instruments to make electronic music). They done more shopping for computer programs at computer and music stores to rebuild Samurai Sorcerers.
On July 18, 2005, Patrick placed an ad in the "musicians newspaper advertisements" on MySpace.com hoping to recruit a new guitarist to play music with the Sorcerers band.
An African-American punk guitarist named Mark Hawkins joined the Sorcerers on guitar. The last 2 weeks of July 2005 saw Mark, Zack and Patrick inside Patrick's home recording studio to play music as the revised garage band. They began making music inside Crocker-Amazon Music Studios to record a new studio album for the Sorcerers.
On August 6, 2005, Mark Hawkins was dismissed from the Sorcerers because Patrick and Zack thought Mark had a bad reputation in the recording studio in the Band in the Box.
Patrick and Zack were already in their 2nd year of community college, but Patrick left City College of San Francisco and went to Skyline College. The Sorcerers band appeared sporadically in the home recording studio to record a new Sorcerers' studio album. They went to Guitar Center where Zack purchased MIDI Keyboards. The concept of the Sorcerers was changed from rock musical instruments in a Grunge band to "electronic" computer music One Man Band. Zack signed on as producer while maintaining to play MIDI Keyboards for the revised version of the Sorcerers inside Crocker-Amazon Music Studios.
The Sorcerers all but disappeared from the local music scene. Patrick (as the Samurai Sorcerers) traveled to Asia for a couple Sorcerers live music events. Zack balked at touring as a musician in the One Man Band.
On December 2005, Patrick painfully broke up with his Japanese girlfriend Yoshiko after ONE miserable date with a girl he met off his "love & romance" ads on Craigslist.org named Laila.
Early 2006, the Sorcerers would play live music events at Stonestown Shopping Mall. As well as jamming on music inside Patrick's home recording studio.
Finally on March 10, 2006, the Sorcerers has finally disbanded on mutual terms with Patrick Lew likely to pursue a musical resume in a new garage band in the local music scene.
Rumor: April 2006, some resources and news articles said the Sorcerers had disbanded because of Patrick's ongoing drug abuse and his "falling out" with Eddie Blackburn which made Patrick unable to continue the Sorcerers as a musical group.
Band of Asians:
January 2006, Patrick went to Skyline College for 1 community college semester and met Filipino DJ and musician Dave Arceo in a computer music lab. He also founded Skyline College's 1st music club department for fellow musicians at the college (supposedly a jab at the Band Originals club back at CCSF). He then forms and revises the Band of Asians musical group concept with Dave Arceo (drums), Anthony Buada (guitar) and Augusto Hernandez (bass guitar) from the music club department.
Early 2006, the Band of Asians play various live music events (gigs) at Skyline College and Serramonte Shopping Mall (sometimes jamming on music inside the Serramonte Music Center). Patrick has NOW purchased a digital camera, and tons of new photo albums were taken from the Band of Asians' shows at Skyline College in their musical resume.
On February 10, 2006, Patrick Lew signed a contract with the Band of Asians musicians company at the Serramonte Music Center along with a live musical show at the small guitar store!
February 22, 2006: The Band of Asians play a memorable show at the Skyline College Theater.
On March 2, 2006: Band of Asians make an appearance at Skyline College's "School of Rock" music & arts festival.
Sometime around April or May 2006, Anthony Buada left the Band of Asians to focus on community college and education.
May 8, 2006 saw the Band of Asians play music at the Vibo Music Center! This was also recorded on a computer laptop for a concert album. They mostly done musical improvisations on various musical instruments due to lack of original musical work. The Band of Asians afterwards, signed up on various band/music webpages to publish news articles, music and stories of Patrick Lew's new garage band in the local music scene!
January to Summer of 2006: The Band of Asians ensconced themselves in various recording studios in San Francisco and Daly City using Patrick Lew's Bank of America credit card to record the studio album "Revenge." Most of the studio recording sessions took place in Bank Studios and Crocker-Amazon Music.
August 10, 2006 saw 2 guest musicians Manchi and Anthony (not Anthony Buada) join Patrick, Dave and Augusto at the Crocker-Amazon Music Studios for nightly jam session. This angered Patrick and Dave because the 2 guest musicians inside Patrick's home recording studio started an incident over the computer applications and setting up the musical instruments inside the workshop. Out of rage, Patrick kicked Anthony and Manchi out of Crocker-Amazon Music!
Patrick Lew around this time, went back to City College of San Francisco for community college. He would continue using illegal drugs until the end of 2006 when he became sober.
September 23, 2006: The Band of Asians finish recording their album "Revenge" at Bank Studios. They signed a Digital Music Distribution contract with an online record company called CDBaby.com, for "unknown" bands & musicians to get their music sold in record shops and digital music retailers such as Napster and iTunes on the Internet.
October - November 2006: Band of Asians constantly jam on music together at Crocker-Amazon Music. They recorded new songs inside the recording studio and published them on Band of Asians' band/music website. However, Augusto Hernandez quits Band of Asians citing "artistic differences."
On November 15, 2006 (Patrick Lew turns 21!), "Revenge" is finally published on the Internet and through CDBaby. The Band of Asians' studio album "Revenge" was basically a musical concept Patrick brought to the Sorcerers in the recording studio back in May 2005 when Patrick brought the demo tapes and scrapbook to Eddie, Shawn and Zack. Since they didn't want to record those ideas, Patrick took the library of his musical history and "Revenge" songs to Band of Asians instead.
Also in the Fall of 2006, the Band of Asians cancel a local concert tour in support of the "Revenge" studio album. Reasons was Augusto leaving the band. And that Patrick and Dave spent most of their extracurricular musical resume activities mixing and mastering the "Revenge" album.
Early 2007: The Band of Asians play many FREE concerts at City College of San Francisco.
Also around March 2007, Patrick begins searching for a recording studio and music producer for the Band of Asians' next studio album called "2046." Rumors begin surfacing that Patrick is jamming on music with another local Grunge band in the local music department at City College of San Francisco.
Power Trip - Metal Up Your Ass!:
Around January 2007, Patrick met his best friend Alky on the Internet dating/matchmaker website Singlesnet.com or the magazine/book equivalent. They begin dating and jamming on music together at Crocker-Amazon Music.
February 4, 2007: A good friend of Patrick's named Cory Gaitum whom works at the City College of San Francisco bookstore. Has the IDEA to form a local Nu Metal band in the local music scene and the college music department.
On February 16, 2007: Patrick, Alky and Cory went to Serramonte Shopping Mall to play guitar and jam at the Serramonte Music Center. Patrick sends a text message on Dave Arceo's cell phone to visit the three musicians at the guitar store. They create the Metal band known as Power Trip in the local music scene!
Patrick, Alky and Cory attend Patrick's childhood friend Eli Koral and his band FLOOD playing a show at the Portero Hill Playground in San Francisco for a local music festival. Alky decided to take a break from the band Power Trip because of transportation and career/education difficulties.
Cory Gaitum and Patrick Lew decided to record some ideas for Power Trip on a portable 4-track studio at Crocker-Amazon Music. Disappointed with the quality of the demo tape, they decide to go to Bank Studios to record music for Power Trip's demo/mixtape.
Dave Arceo "officially" joins the Power Trip on drums in March 2007.
On March 21, 2007: Power Trip launches their band/music profile on the Internet throughout the global music scene!
March 24, 2007: Cory and Patrick attend Patrick's friend Michelle Mingoa's band Elevator Love Letters concert at the Mission Recreational Center. Patrick spends time chatting with the band's substitute touring drummer Kelsey Mitchell after the live music event.
March - May 2007: The Power Trip records 6 songs at Bank Studios which sounded like musical jam improvisations.
June 2, 2007: Cory Gaitum gets married in Los Angeles. Making him the first of Patrick Lew's musical colleagues in all of the bands he played music in throughout his career. Well. To be married.
Samurai Sorcerers REUNITE!:
On May 25, 2007: Patrick, Eddie and Shawn meet each other at Eddie and Shawn's band Sapien's concert at City Hall and reunited as musicians to record a new song at Eddie's home recording studio. It is possibly expected, the Sorcerers will play music in a Garage Band together more often.
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