A life-long musician and hobbyist of Alternative music, Band of Asians was a musical creation that launched the success of Taiwanese-American musician and artist Patrick Lew. It also launched the musical careers of such former band members as well.

There are two versions of Band of Asians. The high school band yearbook for Band of Asians from 2001 to 2005. And the later college years for their music from 2006 to 2008.

Before playing shows locally and doing live musical performances with Band of Asians they often spent weekdays in school and weekends for band practice compiling and creating music from a scrapbook of sheet music and songwriting symphony ideas of Patrick's. In 2001, the age of Electronics and Computers (especially the Internet) allowed independent musicians and bands who were unsigned and signed to independent record labels to publish and promote their music on the Internet. With a tape recorder and the limited roster of musicians in Silent Minister. They created a demo tape in Patrick's dining room creating their earliest musical work on that tape recorder. Despite very poor sound quality and limited musicianship at the time, the Band of Asians first published their music on the Internet in May 2001. Band of Asians were also occasional concert goers, going to music festivals such as Warped Tour and Ozzfest in 2001. Around that time, guitar wizard Eddie Blackburn joined Band of Asians during the high school yearbook careers of the still underage musicians.

By then, they played "Battle of the Bands" in 2002 at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and got a friend to use their tape recorder to pirate a bootleg of some of their live musical performances. The Band of Asians made it to MP3.com but were also lost in the shuffle. At the time, MP3.com was the independent musicians social-networking website. They debuted on MP3.com around August 2002 but mostly was in the indie music community webpage's very undercard roster of talents. Mostly getting their music promoted on the C-brand of MP3.com which was for the new musical groups who just begun their music careers but needed an extra music school training with other local groups that were very underground. MP3.com was later merged with SoundClick.com by the end of 2002, and Patrick Lew's music and art would be mainly published on that indie music page. They also published some of their music on Dmusic.com.

Band of Asians spent 2003 touring, recording and going to school of course. They published their early collection of bedroom musical recordings "Live! Like a Garage Band!" by the end of 2002 and spent most of 2003 doing live musical performances and events locally and band practice. However, they would win a title to their musical resume. "Live! Like a Garage Band!" was awarded a 3/5 musical critique and review by music critic Thom Jurek but there were hints to come in Patrick Lew's still relatively new musical resume and career occupation as a musician to progress but in later years. Band of Asians' early years in the Internet independent music community showcased them as an up-and-coming musician and local band as mid-carders in the musical competition on SoundClick.

Aside from music, the Band of Asians done a small acting role in the local San Francisco theater playwright, "Picking." Patrick Lew and Eddie Blackburn outside of Band of Asians also created music as solo musicians.

It wasn't however, until 2004 when Band of Asians began ranking themselves in the independent music community and tournament of talented independent musicians. Despite Patrick Lew's divorce from high school girlfriend Amy Shawn and personal hardships with depression and narcotics. Not to mention a shambolic Love Life. Band of Asians began their road to the big leagues of the music industry by doing a concert tour locally in April to June of that year. A trip to Amoeba Records and meeting Jpop singer Nami Tamaki during a free concert inspired the band to create and record the song "Tokyo Pop Princess" which shot to the middle of the Independent Music Charts on SoundClick. Their 2004 debut album "Psychotic Love" was recorded in the home recording studio of Patrick's after little musical formulas and songwritings at the time. Very fascinated as recording musicians in resources, they used the 4-track PortaStudio to experiment with creating music along with each band member adding their own ideas to their album. "Psychotic Love" became the launch of Patrick Lew and Eddie Blackburn's musical career and his long independent musician odyssey towards making it to the bigger leagues of the popular music community. A second Band of Asians album, "Blizzard of Sound" was recorded in one night at guitarist Eddie Blackburn's home on October 23, 2004. Band of Asians began earning some exposure locally and mostly on the Internet music world.

However, the band's relationship and marriage was put to the test during the "Psychotic Love" tour across local recreational centers and City College SF. After their concert at Balboa High School on February 13, 2005, they gave up on touring and decided to work on music for the next studio album in Eddie's home recording studio. During the constant promotion on SoundClick, Patrick Lew won his first solo musician title to his resume with "Sexy Asian Guitarists" winning 4th place in the music tournament. Zack Huang, a college friend of Patrick's. Joined Silent Minister on keyboards in May 2005 which resulted supposedly in creating music for the third studio album with the high school band in Eddie's private recording studio. What followed was tension between the band members and musicians in the high school band and on June 9, 2005, Band of Asians played their final concert until 2 years later at the Chinatown Recreational Center. Eddie Blackburn mutually left Band of Asians to focus on a solo musician career. This would mark a change in the music and careers for Band of Asians for the next 3 years as they began experimenting music in the recording studio to create musical masterpieces. For any Internet musician in 2005 to not do music as a career for a live musical performance wasn't unheard of. But this was days before Band of Asians owned digital photo cameras and 4-track audio recordings and writings were essential to Band of Asians music and home video and other forms of merchandise were still ages away for the young Internet musicians.

Band of Asians' high school band lineup of Eddie Blackburn and Shawn Blacharski remained on good terms with Patrick but the 2 Internet musicians later formed the Funk Metal band Soundeater, whom toured locally in San Francisco as live performing musicians in 2005 to 2007. They do not have a music page on the Internet as Soundeater did not record any demos in the recording studio.

Zack and Patrick would team on-and-off as musical collaborators and musicians to create music for Band of Asians by placing ads in the newspaper Craigslist to hire a new guitarist to replace Eddie. Zack and Patrick endorsed new musical equipment to create NEW music as Zack signed onto produce the NEXT Band of Asians album. Patrick also took a year off of college to focus on the project. The high school band later evolved into Band of Asians when Patrick went to Skyline College and met Dave Arceo (drums/turntables) and Augusto Hernandez (bass guitar) in the school's music club. Due to Patrick's shambolic love relationships with women, Patrick grew intense and content to create better music and work his way up as a top independent musician on the Internet. On SoundClick, Band of Asians came onto the music community as the musical alternative forPatrick Lew with the help of his musician friends. Patrick turned rulebreaker. Being misogynist, malevolent and utterly misanthropic. This was well-documented on his blogs on the Band of Asians music page showing and convincing others that he wants to be a great musician and the king of Alternative music. Following one concert in 2006 at Vibo Music Center (also became a live album EP for Band of Asians).
That unreleased and unfinished music intended for the third studio album Eddie, Shawn, Patrick and Zack planned for Band of Asians later became Band of Asians' musical masterpiece "Revenge." Recorded in a variety of small local recording studios and published around the world on SoundClick and other independent music community websites on Patrick Lew's 21st birthday. The Band of Asians debut CD showed a more Experimental and Music Fusion huge wall of sound for Patrick's 6 year musical career as he arranged, played 75% of the musical instruments, produced and recorded at the local recording studio. Endorsing new musical gear at the Guitar Center, they created a more interesting yet unique music with the "Revenge" album. Which later resulted in SoundClick independent music cross-promotions with other indie music websites like Muzie. This album also earned Patrick Lew "DMusic.com 2006 Artist of the Year" although the "Revenge" album was met with poor record sales and mp3 music downloads due to lack of funding to merchandise and publish the album. Augusto soon left Band of Asians to promote his music on Muzie with his JRock band. And Dave and Patrick became the Band of Asians tag team of musicians.

By 2007, Patrick Lew made his 2nd coming and musical comeback locally and in the indepedent music community and media with Band of Asians by starting back from scratch with his new solo musical group. Playing small shows locally for live musical performances and the DIY of his music and SoundClick flyers across the villages in record shops. Patrick, formed an Alliance with musician and backyard wrestler Cory Gaitan (who became Band of Asians' substitute bassist for touring) along with Dave Arceo and declared rebellion towards the music community who wouldn't listen to their music and art. Such incidents included Patrick and Cory scuffling an Asian poser kid at the Goth Club, Diemaschien in 16th and Mission in San Francisco. But still, the music should do the talking not the autobiography as Band of Asians built a home recording studio called Band in the Box (as Patrick wrote on his SoundClick blog) with the musical gear from Guitar Center. Together in that bedroom, they recorded a whopping 70 to 80 songs and published them on the Internet on SoundClick! Playing a show with Scarlett Bombs and Tinkture on April 14, 2007 also saw Band of Asians playing music but antagonizing the audience if they didn't appreciate Band of Asians music. Not to mention Patrick, Cory and Dave partying at The Independent Club with Scarlett Bombs' Michelle Mingoa for her 19th birthday.

From April to June 2007, Band of Asians recorded a demo at Bank Studios of musical improvisations. Some of these recordings were published on their website. On July 22, 2007, all 3 members went to a professional wrestling sports event for World Wrestling Entertainment at the San Jose Arena.

The Band of Asians played their biggest concert to date at Golden Gate Park for a local festival on August 11, 2007 (Cory's 19th birthday) for a live musical performance. Patrick then turned his attention to the SoundClick music contests and tournaments feeling he was decent enough to earn a spot in the musical tournament of other talented bands and musicians on SoundClick. Two tournaments the Band of Asians sent a resume and their songs "No Music No Life" and "Jingle Bell Rock" for the 10th anniversary of SoundClick and Holiday SoundClick contests only resulted in them being in the 2nd round before being voted off.
By late 2007 however, Band of Asians began to splinter once again after a successful 2007 local concert tour. Cory, moved overseas for the next 8 months until the day Band of Asians broke up when he surprised Patrick by visiting his home recording studio hours after Patrick and Dave parted ways on bad terms. Patrick and Dave were constantly in the recording studio creating music for Band of Asians until Dave's personality and attitude changed amidst personal problems. Patrick and Dave couldn't agree which songs they recorded were ready to be published on the Band of Asians music page on the Internet. Around this time, Patrick would record 97% of this musical parts for each recording while Dave contributed a drum machine track through overdubs. Confusion over who wrote what song or what part along with Dave's bitterness towards Patrick over personal issues with Patrick trying to set the record straight when writing blogs and news articles on the Band of Asians website. Whether it was Patrick's fault or Dave's fault, it seems that no matter how close of a friendship the two had since the 2nd era of Band of Asians begun, things didn't seem obvious that something would lead to unfortunate turn of events.

In early 2008, Band of Asians recorded a couple more of Patrick's ideas but Dave wanted no association with it. Although the two were very close and a band of brothers still, Patrick and Dave were the only remaining members left in Band of Asians' roster. Each Internet musician began pursuing their own Side Projects, Patrick Lew pursued a more Grunge and Pop Punk sound in his solo musician outlet Audio 2 Riot. Dave contemplated doing Hardcore Rap music under his MC name "Monoxide" by programming all the Rap beats on FL Studio 6 on his computer. Despite having endorsed Propellerhead Reason 4 to create musical masterpieces such as the song "Love and Tragedy." The democracy which once brought 2 friends and egos together was becoming apparent that Band of Asians ceased to exist as a band.

Dave would email Patrick ProTools files on the computer at the school library. Little did anyone know, it could possibly lessen the quality of the entire music and albums Band of Asians had in plan. Frankensteining a CD with ProTools files in one's own recording studio meant collaboration was ceasing to be. Band of Asians was reported ON HIATUS on the first week of March 2008 on DMusic.com. Unfortunately, the last hurrah for Band of Asians was on Dave's 21st birthday on March 15, 2008 when Patrick and Dave happily hung out to celebrate.

While things seemed fine. A few weeks later on March 29, 2008. Dave and Patrick confronted each other over an issue regarding the Band of Asians music page and Patrick accused Dave's overinflated ego of stealing information and documents off his website. Although Dave avoided further confrontation from his former friend, Patrick figured it was the final straw. Later on Midnight, Band of Asians issued a Press Release saying the Band of Asians officially will break up.
But the legacy will live on. After 8 years, the band went through it all as Internet musicians. From music school. To performing "Battle of the Bands." And the music and writings published on the Band of Asians music pages on the Internet through computers around the world. That long and winding road which began almost a decade earlier at the Vibo Music Center which inspired and offended the lives of those who had associations with Band of Asians and their music live on.

Cory visited Patrick on the day Band of Asians broke up. It was the first time Patrick Lew saw Cory Gaitan since early September of 2007. According to resources, Band of Asians main reason for disbanding was not because of the breakup of 2 former friends from Skyline College. Not because of all the musicians involed been through in Band of Asians. But it was time to pursue other extracurricular musical activities elsewhere and as individuals.

Since the Band of Asians split, Patrick Lew has been working on music as a solo musician in his outlet Audio 2 Riot.