Band of Asians (acknowledged by CCSF as "Renegade Youth") is a local American hard rock band, formed in Daly City, California in 2005. It basically was a revised version and solo project built around Patrick Lew's former garage band he played music in, Samurai Sorcerers. The main differences in Band of Asians over the former Sorcerers was the absence of Eddie Blackburn's guitar solos and more primitive studio recordings (referred to Patrick as "garage band mixtapes") and the usage of computers in their music.

Decline of Samurai Sorcerers (2005 - 2006)
In 2005, Janet Wang was fired from the Sorcerers as Eddie and Patrick felt her songwriting resumes weren't adequate for future musical resumes and projects. That same year, the Sorcerers had finished their third and final concert tour locally in San Francisco around community colleges. When their resume came to music for a third studio album, they ensconced themselves into various recording studios and endorsing computer gear and musical instruments from Guitar Center to put forth the project.

In the spring of 2005, Patrick's community college friend from City College of San Francisco, Zack Huang, joined the Samurai Sorcerers on MIDI Keyboards and computers. Based on advice from Zack, he told Patrick he should focus on using computer music software instead of relying on 3 other musicians in a garage band to make a demo/mixtape. This was what he called "Band in the Box." A glossary used to describe one musician in a power struggle with his band members in a local garage band over music, resumes and touring issues. To only play music on his own as One Man Band using computers, musical instruments and using Patrick's bedroom as a home recording studio. This occurred as Zack built a recording studio in Patrick's house over the glossary concept of a "Band in the Box." This brought tensions within the Samurai Sorcerers local garage band.

Eddie drifted in and out of Samurai Sorcerers for a year, playing in a musical side project with bassist Shawn Blacharski in the local band Sapien for shows. By coincidence, both Patrick and Eddie placed ads in the newspaper looking for a new guitarist to play music in their bands associated with their resume. Patrick was going through drug abuse at the time, and had on-and-off again problems with girls he met on social-networking websites for love & romance. In May 2005, the band temporarily revised their musical resume and regrouped in the recording studio with Zack acting as keyboardist. After three weeks of jamming and songwriting, Eddie and Shawn went back to their musical side project in their resume Sapien for touring. After that, Patrick and Eddie had a huge argument over publishing for their music as they since left their record company, Statue Records, and duplicate band & music websites appeared advertising both Samurai Sorcerers and Sapien. Patrick used the opportunity with an ad on Craigslist.org to recruit a new guitarist Mark Hawkins into the Sorcerers for future projects and resumes. When Eddie found out about this, Patrick sent an e-mail to the local music media that Eddie and Shawn were no longer in the band.

Purchasing even more musical instruments at computer and guitar stores, Eddie was replaced by Mark Hawkins and Zack stayed playing music as a band member of the Sorcerers. Just before a canceled concert tour across Asia advertising Samurai Sorcerers band & music in late 2005, Mark quickly was fired as he had a notorious reputation in the recording studio when playing music with the band. Although they did done more recording for the third studio album in "Band in the Box Studios" Patrick soon went to Skyline College after briefly leaving City College of San Francisco for his community college education. In early 2006, Zack opted out of his musical resume (musicians job application) from the Sorcerers but on good terms.

This left Patrick to built a new musical project and resume on his own with new musicians or himself playing all the musical instruments he endorsed at the guitar stores at "Band in the Box Studios." Eddie and Shawn now play in various local bands but mostly their musical side project Sapien, finding immediate success touring locally although never publishing their music on the Internet or ensconcing themselves in a recording studio to produce a demo/mixtape.

The New Album (2004 - 2007)
Patrick Lew first began work on music for a new studio album in various recording studios, learning to play electric guitar better with workshops at Vibo Music Center and the community college music department, in 2004. Writing a song called "The Chronicles of Eden." The Samurai Sorcerers were supposedly going to produce the demo/mixtape themselves in Garage Band Shop and use the guitars they got at the Guitar Center. But nothing came out of these sessions and Samurai Sorcerers remained on hiatus after finishing their third and final concert tour locally. In mid-2006, Patrick returned to the recording studios revising a new version of the Sorcerers band called "Band of Asians" with new musicians in the roster. He added Dave Arceo on drums and Augusto Hernandez on bass guitar. While Patrick played guitar, keyboards, sang and used lots of computer music software to make music. A year earlier, "Battle Royale" became the last Samurai Sorcerers song on their catalog to be published on their band & music website and the local music scene.

On May 2006, the Band of Asians and Patrick Lew (who spent more than year as a reclusive musician and artist) played their first show at the Vibo Music Center for a concert album. Although they were displeased by the music they performed at the small music school/store, they spruced the music up adding musical instruments and overdubs on the bootleg tapes recorded off Augusto's computer laptop at "Band in the Box Studios." The concert was intended to be a prelude to their new album "Revenge" which was being recorded in various recording studios in Daly City and San Francisco. Their band & music profile was now published on the social-networking website MySpace.com when they signed up for a band & music webpage containing new music (mp3 files) and various news articles and journals about the band on July 27, 2006. They also began finishing work on the new album in various recording studios throughout most of the year.

Revenge (2006 - 2007)
After finishing work on the "Revenge" album, Augusto Hernandez left the Band of Asians. Before that there was a concert tour advertising Patrick Lew's band & music Band of Asians in the local music scene but was eventually canceled so Patrick and Dave could finish the product. After landing a digital distribution deal with CDBaby for their musical resume and catalog, "Revenge" along with their May 2006 concert "Band of Asians, Live!" was published on CDBaby through online record stores in November. The album was however met with good reviews, but the record poorly sold due to lack of funding to publish the Band of Asians in the music industry.

After several months to stop drug addiction and solving personal hardships, Patrick Lew and his Band of Asians finally returned to the stage as Band of Asians played 3 shows at Patrick's community college City College of San Francisco to get Band of Asians band & music in the local music industry. After two years of reclusive behavior, Patrick finally returned to the local music scene with his new band.

In early 2007, Patrick also formed a new musical project associated to his resume. The local New Metal band Power Trip with musician friends from community colleges he went to. They recorded their demo/mixtape at Bank Studios around 16th and Mission in San Francisco. Although their musical improvisations were electronically fixed up through computer music software in the recording studio. The album should be finished by late 2007.

Buy Product (2007 - Present)
From October 2006 to May 2007, the Band of Asians had recorded tons of new music for their musical resume in "Band in the Box Studios" during soundchecks and jam sessions. With enough songs to fill up an entire studio album, Patrick announced on his Band of Asians' band & music MySpace.com webpage that he promises a new studio album with Band of Asians to be published in the local music industry soon. The album "Buy Product" as Patrick described it in his Band of Asians' band & music journal, should be published around September 2007 through the CDBaby record company. The songs on the new album as Patrick described, more "angry" and "personal" than their previous studio album "Revenge." Focusing mainly on the backlash and anger Sorcerermania had on Patrick's autobiography and musical resume in the long run and his personal hardships with love & romance.

Also in July 2007, Zack joined Patrick and Dave to form a Silverchair cover band of Asian musicians called "Buy Product." Using musical instruments from Walmart and Best Buy and learning how to play Silverchair music through sheet music websites such as Cyberfret.com and guitar instruction books to make themselves better at playing musical instruments and evolving and revising their band & music. The idea of doing Silverchair covers as Buy Product was for Patrick and Dave to pay tribute to the Grunge music they loved as children and the concept that the Band of Asians had NO original music at the moment for their musical resume.