PLB Banned?

I wouldn't be surprised if Patrick Lew Band and my music would get banned in China. Or maybe in a funny bad way, censored like a clean version of a Limp Bizkit CD. 

A lot of my personal rants and opinions about the manmade flaws of mainlanders on social-media would not catch well with them. Plus not to only mention, I'm a Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese mixed breed. That would put them off big time unintentionally.

A censored/clean PLB CD in China would probably be like a five minute CD with two songs..."I love her so much, (bleep) (bleep) (bleep), give (bleep) and don't ever give up! Because (bleep) (bleep) (bleep)." That's the lyrics to my song and it would be retitled without my consent as "Girl Talk." Lol.

I'm pretty sure that would happen in real-life!

Patrick Lew's Japanese-Taiwanese Roots Explained

Unpopular Confession/Opinion: I see myself as more Japanese and Taiwanese in mindset and tendencies than mainland Chinese in the Patrick Lew Band.

It's like how The Beatles were from Liverpool, England but all of them associated more with their Irish roots, as a matter of fact, Ringo was the most English member from The Beatles. Paul Mccartney was the most Irish of all the Beatles pretty much! You can even tell by his surname. 

One of my Filipino colleagues once said to me, "Mainland Chinese are the United Kingdom of East Asia." In some ways I suppose, it's a little fairly accurate. 

I've been to China a few times, I personally didn't like it. Preferring Hong Kong and Taiwan over the mainland, which is more distinct from the mainland Chinese. I don't hate anything China has produced culturally over the last God knows 7000 years, there's more of a political and social concern with the contemporary mainlanders. And personal matters I suppose.

A Lesson To Be Learned

I'm very selective and particular who I want in my band these days. I don't just get some guy off the street corner and say to him or her, "You're in the band!" After experiencing several hardships keeping it all together, I only play music with people who I can vibe well with, can play competently and isn't a huge douchebag, drama king/queen or pretentious knob ya know? We can be homies, but keep in mind, this is also a business too. We have to work as a team! We also have to be ethical about every little detail too.

Newsflash

As of today, I’m no longer an official member of the band Pleasure Gallows and the YouTube TV series Ramen Rock. Creative differences being the main factor. All apologies for the inconveniences. In the meantime, be sure to look forward to other projects in the near future such as TheVerse and maybe even another revival of Patrick Lew Band as well. I look forward to rocking you guys soon! Stay tuned and stick around.

No Longer In That Band

Today was not a good day for me. Oh no!

I just got kicked out of my now former band. It’s definitely a VH1 Behind the Music moment. Or World Star Hip Hop. All apologies for airing this out, of course.

But the guy who I was in a band with was someone who I thought was my Asian-American/Japanese brother and good friend and I heard him out whenever he vented about the band drama which I never got myself involved with and our thirtysomething mid-life crisis. I didn’t read the message last night while it was sent to me via PM. But this morning, my former friend/band mate messaged me on text going all ape shit on me. I kept it calm and collected somehow.

But man. That was pretty crucial. You can’t trust a lot of people these days in this generation and I feel bad because I opened up to the dude before seeing his true colors. Thought the dude was my Japanese-American brother from another mother but that hit pretty hard at first. Dude couldn’t make up his mind with me being in the band and this wasn’t the first time he went off on me. I wasn’t trying to do anything wrong man! He just went all bipolar (not saying it’s wrong to be) over someone who he thought was his bro. And the shit happened four times already via text!
Today was not a very good day for me. But I’ll move forward, take my losses and find some other ways to do music with other bands for sure.

Normally, I don’t air out things like this on social-media and I’m not a very negative person and try to be subtle with it. But as an Asian-American male and also an Asian-American in the music business, we all gotta stick together and help lift each other higher to reach our goals. It’s a very cut throat business and I know being an Asian-American male is hard (especially when mental health involved) but damn dude.

I dunno why I posted this, but man. That hit me hard. Hope you guys can cheer me up by sending me some motivational words and positive outlooks.