You know what. Daniel Johns from the band Silverchair once said in the press that he hated his band's first two albums and considered Neon Ballroom the band's first true album. He would often refer Silverchair's first two albums as "his high school band" and not like the one he was doing right after. I personally feel the same way about PLB distinguishing our first and second tenures in the Internet music scene. They also feel like two completely different bands and different beasts!

I can't listen to most of my 2000s output with PLB. And I personally regretted my first tenure in Patrick Lew Band because I chose that path in life at a very young age, not knowing what I was doing and I was completely unprepared for everything. It's like how kids are not prepared for life once they transition from 5th Grade to 6th Grade.

There was a lot of things from PLB's first run I don't like to look back on fondly: band drama, dysfunctional family situation, the dark side of the music business and failing relationships and terrible encounters with the wrong people.

Even if the music was great to some people I'm sure. I personally don't look back on my first run with PLB very positively. It was not the band that I envisioned it to be musically and the way I wanted it to be known in the scene. Plus I started when I was only 16, and I didn't have everything all mapped out and how I wanted to pursue it and put it out there.

Now, the second run of Patrick Lew Band was its most profitable and memorable. That's what most people will maybe possibly remember PLB for many years from now perhaps. Legacy wise and who we truly were all about.

I always felt that PLB's second run was a complete reboot of the band once we came back in 2015. It makes everything that happened before 2015 in my music career pretending like it never happened, especially the bad shit. And PLB's second tenure in local music was what the band should have been from the start. Especially when my sister Madeline (my alter ego in reality) joined the band. That's the real PLB in my brutally honest opinion. And I actually knew what the heck I was actually doing and how to take it to public.

As far as PLB albums goes, I always felt OAKLAND (2017) was the first real PLB album personally. I've never felt any different about it looking back. Not saying any album before Oakland from PLB was dreadful! Lol. It was the first LP that I've ever done with Patrick Lew Band and said to myself, "Now, that's how I've always wanted the band to sound!"