The Margins

The Margins consist of Alexes Orellana and Wills. We decided to keep it simple for everyone, so we decided to only let people in our band who happen to be named “Alex”. We met at the illustrious University of California, Santa Cruz, and on a whim decided to live in San Francisco. Well, we’ve been here for a couple years now, and find ourselves living in the ever-active Mission District. I (alexo) grew up listening to Punk here in the Bay Area, and have been in my share of Punk and Ska bands. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

The Margins consist of Alexes Orellana and Wills. We decided to keep it simple for everyone, so we decided to only let people in our band who happen to be named “Alex”. We met at the illustrious University of California, Santa Cruz, and on a whim decided to live in San Francisco. Well, we’ve been here for a couple years now, and find ourselves living in the ever-active Mission District. I (alexo) grew up listening to Punk here in the Bay Area, and have been in my share of Punk and Ska bands. Then in college, I for some reason became absolutely fascinated by classical music, and decided to get myself a minor in it. Which, I might add, was far more work (and far more rewarding) than my Econ major. I fell in love with people like Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Stravinsky, and the like. While I was there I also found myself writing scores to some of my friend’s short films, which was a pretty incredible experience. So now I have a digital piano-computer keyboard-footpedal going into my computer, which controls hundreds of sampled instruments at my command! I also have a modeling guitar going into an amp modeler going into my computer, to give me a pretty ridiculous arsenal of instruments to play and loop. Wills has more of a taste for electronic music. He’s always loved tinkering with all kinds of crazy software the same way that you might remember playing with Legos as a kid. Although, that’s not to say that he’s ONLY interested in electronic music, frankly, his tastes are probably a lot broader in a lot of ways compared to mine, possibly because he’s much less of an obsessive douche as I am. One random day a while back, after he realized he had learned to play Rock Band drums to perfection with little to no effort, he decided to take the step to some real drums. On our way to pick up the drums, we saw a truck with about 2 tons of junkyard paraphernalia loaded about 15 feet high with only three wheels, and we knew from that moment on that we should start a fucking sweet ass band. Hopefully he can add more in here so I don’t look like such a self-obsessed douchebag. Currently he’s rocking the whole percussion section, from drums to shaker to the occasional vocal line. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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