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What I think about my music and artistic creation.

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2009-11-27
By: PatrickLewsBandSF
Posted in: Music, Life, Technology

What I think about my music and artistic creation.

Patrick Lew's Band. Solo Grunge musician who promotes his music via Internet on websites like this. Patrick Lew is a rock band from Antioch, California active making music since 1999. While mainly a one-man project for Lew, it also consisted of other musicians before. He began promoting his music online around 2001 at 15 years old and a high school freshmen. His music and art is classified best as Hard Rock, Grunge, Pop Punk and Alternative Metal. Patrick Lew's Band Statistics Origin -- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA Genres -- Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative Metal Years Active -- 1999-present Labels -- Unsigned Associated Acts -- Dexter Rotten, Band of Asians, Silent Minister, The Nocturnal Rock Turtles, Eddie Blackburn Website -- www.patricklewsband.com (Members) Patrick Lew - Almost Everything (1999-present) Patrick Lew's Band (formed 2001) is an American hard rock band currently promoting their music on PureVolume. They also promoted their recordings and story on a variety of other websites, most notably Soundclick.com. Maintaining their independent DIY ways of promoting a virtually unknown rock band via Internet. This solo rock band consists of only one member, Taiwanese rock guitarist and songwriter Patrick Lew recording and playing all the instruments. And pro Do I play live shows as a musician? Used to, when I was playing guitar and pursuing my music career with my former garage bands I was a member of. We were promoting our music mainly through our computer online and, putting out pamphlets of our website on college campuses and record stores like Amoeba and Rasputin. I was in 3 or 4 former local Bay Area bands playing guitar and doing music prior to going solo as Patrick Lew's Band. I mainly nowadays, am focused with finishing college up at CSUEB. The university I attend studying Music and Philosophy. And making music at home, and promoting it online. I would love to play live shows again. But I might really need a backup band of live musicians to present Patrick Lew's Band center stage. And I need less parental control with family when living in my house with my parents in my hometown of Antioch. And when the right opportunity, respect and time comes for my music. I mean! I been making music since 1999, promoting myself online when I was 15 years old. So timing is a bit essential for myself to get recognized musically. How many years have you been doing music? About almost a decade. I started learning guitar when I was 13 at a Chinese music school, and began writing my own songs quickly through the power chords I learned during guitar lessons. I began recording basement-made Rock N' Roll music since 2001, when I got a 4-track Portastudio from some Guitar Center. I began using computers to record my compositions and ideas around 2005 or 2006, when I invested in a lot of up-to-date musical and recording equipment with my college money for cram school. What would you classify the style of your music and unsigned band? It's hard to say. I've been influenced by a lot of music and experiences. I hold a close nostalgia to 80's hard rock and metal. And I love early 90's alternative rock. I have also been influenced by punk and thrash music a lot from the Bay Area. I also was a die-hard Beatles fanatic growing up, collecting any merchandise related to The Beatles as a kid. But my music in Patrick Lew's Band? I'd say it is unconventional Hard Rock that is guitar-based with some added electronic sounds! I've been told my music as P Lew's Band to be classified when promoting it online as: Pop Punk, Grunge. I really been buying older records of popular 80's and 90's rock bands on Amazon.com and the record shop and putting the CDs onto my iPod Nano, which I got at a blowout sale at Virgin Megastore in SF. I also pay close attention to the music I hear on various indie music community sites and the Bay Area scene. How many bands were you in prior to Patrick Lew's Band? The story behind it? My first punk rock band was called Goldenweasel which I founded with my schoolmate from Chinese school, Tommy. Around the summer of 1999, and we were learning how to play rock instruments at the time. We began playing music and being amateur hobbyist musicians in my house in my bedroom, it was basically a very primitive and amateur garage band playing Rock N' Roll music. My first REAL band as an independent musician was Silent Minister in high school. Which was the proper start of my music career and resume in Hard Rock. Tommy was the drummer for it for awhile, I met lead guitarist Eddie through a schoolmate of mines in high school as a freshmen. He was learning to become a guitar virtuoso at School of Rock in San Francisco. This was the first actual rock band I played and pursued music in. We alternated between high school with our music and rockin' band! Playing gigs as underage musicians at bars and other very small places locally. And I began promoting my solo music along with Silent Minister around the same time, 2001. Some other bands I played guitar and wrote music in was TORM with my schoolmate from Wallenberg High School, Gray. Though we had a MySpace and Soundclick at the time, we never recorded any music together or pursued it full-time for various reasons. I was also forming Band of Asians with community college friends at the time. Which continued the things I did with Silent Minister, taking music seriously. When that and our band didn't work out, I went solo as an artist and musician.  Would I ever sign with a record deal with a major or indie record label, if given the opportunity? I would say, yes and no. Because, while I love being an independent rock musician after all. Promoting my songs and writing my story on websites like this. I still want recognition and make an IMPACT with whatever I am doing. But I say no, because I am a very complicated Asian guy who is against the traditions and politics of the music industry. I also am against people suddenly sucking up to me, after years of alienation and hardships I've experienced not only in the music industry. But in reality. But I still want success and recognition for my music and me. Yeah. Don't trust the men with suits! They know squat about music and art. But as far as independent smaller record labels is concerned, I would try to pursue it if given a fair opportunity from a smaller company for mixed media. It's hard to say, because I dunno if I lose or gain anything out of it. This has to be an experience and lifetime ambition I must live before any results come out of it.  What do you like about Patrick Lew's Band? Everything. The life experiences. Making music. It's a special event and interest of mines. I been promoting my music online for 9 years already, and I would never let anyone discourage me from doing what I love. Which is what I got from some music critics on Soundclick's website of critics and reviewers. I also like being solo, because I don't work under time pressure when coming up with ideas for new songs and Rock N' Roll music, and I don't have to put up with other musicians in Bandalism type events. Such as drama in playing guitar and making music in a band.  Anything else...? MySpace or Facebook me today. For the latest news. And follow me through this endless love and journey.  MySpace -- www.myspace.com/patricklewsband  www.myspace.com/guns_n_samurai  Facebook -- www.facebook.com/patricklewsband

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