<p><strong>Patrick Lew's Band</strong> is a local American hard rock band, founded in San Francisco, California in 2001. While mainly known and recognized in their hometown in the independent music scene, they are often consistently promoting their recordings and information via Internet on websites such as MySpace and PureVolume. The band and its music is known for eccentricity style-wise, writing songs using unconventional storytelling and theme, and often is very informative in presenting their stories and experiences as local musicians on various websites.</p><p> </p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">Taiwanese-American underground rock musician and Internet personality Patrick Lew began his music career and pursuit at age 13 in the summer of 1999 when he was learning guitar and composition at a local music store. And quickly formed his first band with his childhood schoolmate and friend Tommy Loi, called <a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; color: #cc2200; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;" title="Goldeneweasel (not yet written)" href="http://www.wikimusicguide.com/index.php?title=Goldeneweasel&action=edit&redlink=1">Goldeneweasel</a>. Despite limited musical expertise and proficiency at the time. Lew's first serious band was <a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; color: #cc2200; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;" title="Silent Minister (not yet written)" href="http://www.wikimusicguide.com/index.php?title=Silent_Minister&action=edit&redlink=1">Silent Minister</a>, which was founded when he was a freshmen at Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco. Lew began promoting and DIY'ing his own music and work locally and via Internet as early as 2001, at the age of 15 on social-networking and indie music websites.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />Lew played rhythm guitar and founded the project with schoolmates, often performing music as hobbyists and a Garage band. He attempted to take music seriously, and considering to pursue music as a career whilst still teenagers. In October 2002, the band Silent Minister performed in the "Battle of the Bands" event at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and later due to constant promotion of their recordings and band kit via Internet, was signed to a Los Angeles indie record label Statue Records, until May 2005 when Silent Minister disbanded due to musical and professional differences.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />At the time, Lew's ambitions in music were to get himself noticed and some degree of success, but recently is focused on music as a part-time career and pursuit. Lew later attended City College of San Francisco, where he met a close schoolmate and keyboardist <a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; color: #cc2200; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;" title="Zack Huang (not yet written)" href="http://www.wikimusicguide.com/index.php?title=Zack_Huang&action=edit&redlink=1">Zack Huang</a> and formed the nu-metal band <a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; color: #cc2200; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;" title="Band of Asians (not yet written)" href="http://www.wikimusicguide.com/index.php?title=Band_of_Asians&action=edit&redlink=1">Band of Asians</a>. Lew's musical background and history mainly consisted of recording and playing guitar, bass and writing his own songs and singing in his former projects. And posting them through websites via Internet. Many of Lew's song ideas were viewed as unconventional or amateur-ish, early on in the years when he began promoting his home-made tracks online.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><br />Although, much of the musical activity for Lew was recording demos at home and posting his music via Internet, and sporadic live performances at bars locally in the Bay Area. Much of Lew or his former band's live events were reportedly to been poorly attended or vaguely recognized, but stories and recollections were told by Lew on his blogging or music website, due to lack of their networking bringing in audio and video recording devices such as digital cameras, to film their performances and other reasons.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">In 2008, after three years of performing and writing music with Band of Asians with schoolmates he known from community college, Lew launched [[Patrick Lew's Band as a complimation of previous works with former bands and his solo material. Currently, the band consists of Lew in the studio recording demos and posting new tracks via Internet. And remains a serious ambition and hobby for Lew, as he's currently on hiatus from the local music scene to finish up college. In recent years, Lew has pursued music individually in his hometown region of Northern California, Lew has recently published and released his forth home-recorded studio album, <a class="new" style="text-decoration: none; color: #cc2200; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial;" title="Let It Rise And Against (not yet written)" href="http://www.wikimusicguide.com/index.php?title=Let_It_Rise_And_Against&action=edit&redlink=1">Let It Rise And Against</a> on iTunes and other digital retailers. And, has been recently active on YouTube creating home-made produced videos of himself performing his music and song ideas on his guitar and accompanied by his voice, and music industry website ReverbNation.com ranked Patrick Lew's music and his solo project at a peaked #51 most famous musician in his local area under the Rock category.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em;">In the March 2008 issue of Recording Magazine, Lew was featured in the classified ads section promoting his former band, the Band of Asians, and their website. Aside from creating, performing and advertising independently produced Alternative Rock music, some of Patrick Lew's expertise as an Internet personality and celebrity consists of photography and writing blogs and stories of his recollections with his involvement in the culture, arts and recreation in the San Francisco Bay Area region. A lot of Lew's photography and writings are found exclusively on certain sections of his music websites and other related sources, which he has advertised his artwork and music on.</p>
