Band of Asians, the Garage Band Music of Patrick Lew had spent a very history textbook making 2007 in the local & Internet music community with a variety of musical events. They just published their debut studio album "Revenge" on Patrick's 21st birthday on CDBaby, the independent record company for unsigned bands, musicians, DJs, rappers and songwriters. Now moving into 2007, Patrick Lew toured for the first time locally in the San Francisco music community since mid-2005. Along with college life at City College of SF and recording and publishing demo versions of Band of Asians music in the studio onto the Internet music websites. Patrick Lew's 2nd coming has arrived in Band of Asians!

January 2007:
Patrick did not spend a great year to kick off 2007 as he was arrested for domestic disturbance at home with roommates at his Band in the Box Studios. He spent two days in jail and became homeless for two weeks. Upon going back to City College Music and his musical career resume with Band of Asians, he and Dave Arceo got together to record more demo versions of Band of Asians music to publish onto the Internet which is great for music artists to publish their music and get promotion through DIY on local music community websites on the Internet like PureVolume, DMusic.com and SoundClick.com. He then met his former girlfriend Jasmine "Alky" Marcella through an online dating/matchmaker website PlentyofFish.com and formed a musical side project in Power Trip with his professional wrestling and metalhead friend Cory Gaitan from his community college.

Right around this time, Patrick began developing and improving as a songwriter and musician. Having purchased tons of musical instruments at Guitar Center and other music stores. He used the tools of mass production to focus on working his studio recordings.

February 2007:
Cory, Patrick and Alky founded the local San Francisco metal band Power Trip. On February 3, 2007, Patrick and his former girlfriend Alky met on a blind date off the Internet and went to Japantown's shopping center and took some photos at the photography store. After playing video games at the Video Game Center in Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf in the City, they headed back to Patrick's Band in the Box music workshop to jam on some music and electric guitars. Two weeks later, Cory joined on lead guitar, bass and vocals to jam with Patrick and record their jam sessions at Band in the Box through a PortaStudio Patrick had purchased from Antiques Online, eBay.com. The next day, the three musicians went to Japantown to the record store to pick up J-Pop CDs and got Dave Arceo to come to Serramonte Shopping Center in Daly City to jam at the music/guitar store and dinner at the food court. The following week, all four had attended Patrick's childhood friend Eli Koral's local grindcore band Flood play a show at the Thrillhouse Records Store.

March 2007:
The Power Trip music profiles on a variety of local & indie music community websites on the Internet are revised and published by the third week of March 2007!

Patrick also commences his first concert tour locally in San Francisco since mid-2005 with Band of Asians by playing free concerts at Open Mic Shows at local coffee shops and outdoor music festivals at City College Music. Not to mention Recreational Centers! For the first time due to limited technologies and electronics in Patrick's earlier musical career, photos were now taken of Patrick Lew playing music for live musical performances on digital camera and it is believed cinema filmmakers were taping and bootlegging Patrick's shows with Band of Asians.

Patrick and Cory play a show at the Mission Recreational Center on March 24, 2007 as the local metal band Power Trip along with Patrick's childhood friend Michelle Mingoa's pop-punk band Elevator Love Letters and another local garage band from San Francisco, First Amendment. They spend the night drinking at a bar with Elevator Love Letter's substitute drummer Kelsey Mitchell.

Jasmine leaves Power Trip to focus on college and retail store jobs.

The band Power Trip spend the next two months jamming on music and recording musical improvisations at 16th and Mission village's Bank Studios on digital music hardware and software electronics technology. Along with their musical instruments and gear from the Vibo Music Center.

April 2007:
Recording continues at Bank Studios with Power Trip. Patrick and Dave of Power Trip and Band of Asians begin recording a variety of demo versions of Band of Asians music at the Band in the Box music workshop. Some say at least 25 tapes of unpublished music built from playing electric guitar, drum machines and making music off a computer music software.

Band of Asians play at the Glen Park Recreational Center on April 14, 2007 with Elevator Love Letters and the well-known local all-girls punk band from San Francisco, Tinkture.

Patrick attends the CDBaby Musicians' Event at the Bottom of the Hill music club by the end of April in San Francisco. He meets CDBaby company owner Derek Silvers and was offered advice on the music industry by Silvers and his peers on his record label. Later that night, Cory and Patrick goes to the Industrial Music Club around 16th and Mission called DieMaschien.

Cory and Patrick also went to a lot of movies at Century Movie Theaters in downtown San Francisco at the Westfield Shopping Center to see "300" and "Grindhouse."

May 2007:
Patrick wraps up his Band of Asians local concert tour in City College Music on May 2, 2007 for the outdoor music & arts festival.

Also nostalgia comes to mind as Patrick, Eddie and Shawn from Patrick's former high school garage band reunite for One Night Only at the Civic Center for City Hall's local concert with 3 local bands playing their music in public. Later that night, it was said that Samurai Sorcerers recorded a new song at Eddie's house using Apple GarageBand 2 and a variety of musical instruments called "Back to Reality." However, it was never published on the Internet. The Samurai Sorcerers parted ways again after the One Night Only musical reunion to focus on their solo projects, college, work and a variety of extracurricular activities.

June 2007:
Patrick attends former Samurai Sorcerers manager and childhood friend Nadia Nehme's birthday at the Georgio's Pizzeria in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 2nd. Cory Gaitan of Power Trip gets married to his long-time girlfriend that same day.

What happened in June was pretty much a period of silence for both Band of Asians and Power Trip. Although Band of Asians was constantly recording new music at Band in the Box Studios and publishing it on the Internet.

Patrick goes to Acting School at City College for two months. He acts in a playwright monologue and a theatrical play called "Outlaws." These two would serve to be Patrick Lew's two most recent non-music extracurricular activities locally.

July 2007:
Patrick and Zack (former Samurai Sorcerers keyboardist) begin discussing him possibly joining Power Trip on MIDI Keyboards. Zack, Patrick and Dave begin jamming often at Band in the Box along with Cory.

Cory and Patrick, being huge professional wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) fans attend a WWE wrestling event "Great American Bash" at the San Jose Arena on July 22nd. Dave is also seen with them as resources reported.

August 2007:
Patrick plays two shows with Band of Asians. He made a surprise live appearance at the Bazaar Cafe on behalf of Michelle Mingoa's band Elevator Love Letters for an Encore for the Open Mic Event at the Bazaar Cafe. After watching a movie with Zack at AMC Movie Theaters, he gets word that he has been offered to play a huge outdoor festival for PromiseLand Church at the Golden Gate Park on August 11th for the "Summer of Love" Christian music & arts festival. Band of Asians played at Golden Gate Park on August 11, 2007 for the huge Christian music outdoor event. Photos were also taken and published on the Band of Asians music website and fan club.

Patrick and Dave go to City College Music to get their community college education. Cory, Dave and Patrick also attend Elevator Love Letter's bassist Nicole's 19th birthday party at "The Independent Club" in San Francisco.

Power Trip begins planning on touring and more studio recording as Cory booked appointments to plan a big concert tour locally with Power Trip some time in early 2008 and band practices at a local recording studio. At this point, we see Power Trip's close friends Kyle Griffin (bass) and Zack Huang (MIDI Keyboards) join the local garage band. Dave persuaded Kyle Griffin, Cory's childhood friend to join Power Trip.

Among troubles of troubles, Patrick's mother was in a car accident and was in Kaiser Hospital for a week. Dave had to deal with media gossip and extreme fame locally. Zack had anxieties about losing his home due to not paying his rent and was forced to get a job at American Eagle, a preppy clothing store at Westfield Shopping Center.

Cory, Kyle and Patrick went to Amoeba Music to DIY a couple flyers for both Band of Asians and Power Trip.

September 2007:
Tragically, Power Trip disbanded officially on September 12, 2007. Patrick and Dave had not spoken to Cory since the month began and Cory left San Francisco due to extremely difficult circumstances in his personal life to live overseas with his family. Kyle sent a MySpace e-mail letter/telegram to Patrick about this tremendously emotionally charged event in his musical career. Kyle and Patrick tried to carry on Power Trip without Cory, but to no avail after a jam session playing music at Band in the Box was filled with sentimental memories in the yearbook.

Patrick considered taking a break as he was not seen in public for two weeks except for going to community college at City College of SF. He reemerged again at Slims, the music club in San Francisco as Dutch metal band Within Temptation played a concert at the club. After the show, Patrick spent time chatting with the band and got encouragement from them to continue doing music and his hobbies in music and trying to make it in the music industry. After getting autographs from all 5 of the band members, he did however take photos with a photographer with the band. But the photos were never found again afterwards.

The next day, Patrick met with ex-girlfriend and founding Power Trip band member Jasmine "Alky" Marcella for a Hotel Party in South San Francisco at the Western Inn Hotel with eight of her closest friends. They went to Japantown Shopping Center to do some shopping and ate dinner at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) and spent the night partying at the Western Inn inside their hotel room. Photos were also taken in the photography store in Japantown.

Patrick briefly reconciled with his former girlfriend from a year earlier, Kacey Lambright, whom he met off PlentyOfFish.com. But it did not work out due to a long-distance relationship. Patrick was also sued by his former girlfriend Yoshiko Kuwamoto from 2005 for defamation after he sent her a threatening letter on FaceBook.com. The case never made it to court.

October 2007:
Band of Asians plays a show at City College of SF on October 10, 2007.

Patrick underwent a nervous breakdown after a scuffle with his co-workers in his Electronic Music Workshop at his community college, City College of SF on October 4th. He apparently was fined for assaulting a local DJ in his college music department workshop for blatant ridiculing in the classroom. After bursting out his frustrations and lashing out, he was nearly arrested for the second time in 2007 for this altercation. He was forced to take Anger Management classes at school.

Dave, Patrick's long-time friend since the two met at Skyline College to form Band of Asians in early 2006. Underwent a personal crisis at home with his fiancee and family. Originally, Patrick posted a newspaper article about Dave leaving Band of Asians. But at the moment, with Patrick's loyalty of their friendship and his help. Patrick and Dave was able to work the situation out mutually because originally Dave quit Band of Asians to fix his personal life.

Word has it that, Patrick was busy reissuing the earliest music and Garage Band demo versions of Samurai Sorcerers music on the Internet. The music he was publishing from his former high school band were recorded between 2001 and 2004 taken from a variety of audiophiles which were published mainly on Samurai Sorcerers' music webpage on the Internet. The reasons for Patrick publishing the unheard Samurai Sorcerers demos of their music is not known but, it was an agreement Patrick and his band made the decision shortly before Samurai Sorcerers originally broke up in early 2006. It could have been because Patrick didn't like the music that much or other unknown circumstances.

November 2007:
Band of Asians plans on releasing their follow-up studio album "Buy Product" by February or March of 2008 as Patrick has recorded enough music to fill up an entire studio album or CD. Patrick will try to publish and manufacture the CDs and Garage Band mixtapes to send to CDBaby Headquarters through UPS in Portland, Oregon.

Dave Arceo is still "officially" a band member for Band of Asians. Patrick published a storybook resource and newspaper article about his revisions of forming a new garage band in the local San Francisco music community on Internet music websites and his journals on Band of Asians music profiles and the Band of Asians fan club. So far, Patrick offered two friends from City College to form a new local garage band with him to play music locally.

On November 15, 2007! "Revenge" was released internationally one year ago! And Patrick turns 22 in age. For his birthday, Patrick spent the morning at City College Music and later was seen at the Great Mall and having dinner with his family at a Korean BBQ diner in San Jose. With the money he received from his record sales, he went out to purchase a Used DJ turntable (record player) at Rasputin Music after tirelessly looking for ads on Craigslist.org and looking for one at the Goodwill Thrift Store! He later picked up a box of 200 vinyl records for FREE at Amoeba Music the day after his 22nd birthday!

Patrick Lew reconnects with Asian women at his community college and on social-networking websites on the Internet such as Facebook.com.

Concluson:
So this was the "Year in Review" for the local musician and DJ from San Francisco in 2007 for Patrick Lew. It was sort of the 2nd coming of Patrick's fame locally in the San Francisco local music community as he earned and worked somewhat hard to regain his success in his hobby of music in the Band of Asians and the ill-fated Power Trip local band. What comes next will be known when it happens, but it will be something that will add more milestones to Patrick Lew's musical resume/career in not only Band of Asians but his personal life and his future musical and extracurricular activities.