Alex Martinez

Playing and listening to music has been in my life since 1991. I have been in countless bands with sounds like spacey lo-fi, brit rock, shoe-gazer, rock and roll, punk, reggie, northern england noise, to indie. What interested me the most was the bands like Sonic Youth, Radio-head, Blur, Superchunk, Jesus and the Marry Chain, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Love and Rockets, and countless other bands.

I started off as a singer-songwriter and then evolved to guitarist-vocalist. Jon and I have been collaborating since 1992 and we haven't looked back since. At first, he was the lead guitarist and I played rythm and then we moved to both exchanging lead vocal and guitar spots from song to song. Our last band, Catalyst, was mainly american rock. We shared the lead vocal role and the duties as lead guitarist. A laughable link was a story a good friend wrote about us throwing a party at his house.

With Magnifier, I relalized that playing bass would be the best suited role for me because I have a deep interest in the rythm of music. I enjoy hearing a moving bass groove, while Brett is tearing it up on the guitar. It seems that playing with Bobby was destiny, because we seem to work off each other extremely well

Everything and anything that involves music will always interest me. I love reading about it and I love being a part of it. I am glad that I can be a part of something special and don't forget to bring the JD. Late!!!!