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The phenomenon that began here on Tuesdays is very interesting, because in the end...

well it's a... it's a day when usually almost all musicians are free.

So, it's a day when they can get together to enjoy music, create together...

...and spend time as friends, as human beings, as musicians.

Tuesdays for me are like... like something artisanal. It's something beautiful and always different, so...

uhm... I think is very rich and big-hearted.

It's a big party where...

we hang out, we begin the week playing, leaving behind the routine.

So, for sure we'll have fun and...

there is always a moment where the blues feels just so cool.

There are artistic and professional consequences for what happens here. It's more...

than just a jam.

How did I start playing?

Well it started with the drum set I received when I was 3 years old.

After that...

I loved music! All day long I was listening to my dad's music.

And I tried playing along. I remember it perfectly and there are even videos of it.

... and more or less at 9, I started drum lessons.

I got a real drum set, but I was not that interested.

And it wasn't until I was 12, 13...

that I began joining bands and I started getting into...

the music and playing more.

In my case, my mom was tired of me playing so many video games.

I was a fat little kid.

So, well, we're sending you to guitar lessons! And for me it was very difficult in the beginning.

and well, with time, as they say, I didn't give up and...

I became one of the guitarists that ends up being a bass player.

In the beginning it was like no... I don't want to play the bass. I don't like it.

I did not understand what was supposed to be cool about it.

So like, when...

So like, when... C'mon dude, here.

Honestly in the beginning I didn't like it at all.

And as time went by, I started to listen to other bass players in the city.

And... it was like a dramatic change for me: "Oh! Can you really do that with a bass?"

How I became interested in playing the guitar...

was because of a classmate I had in Junior High.

Heavy metal! I started playing heavy metal with him.

But once Abraham got his guitar, which was a little after...

I mean, a couple months after my dad bought a guitar for Abraham also.

It was then when we started to...

get sheet music, we went to flea markets and bought tabs for guitar.

Metallica, Megadeth, Maiden...

The music we listened to. And we still listen to it, we love it.

So we got really into the songs and getting them right.

And we said: "Well, ok, you do that solo, and I do this solo".

Like we still do now with the band and with the blues,

we did it back then too.

There was no bass player, no drummer, we were just two guitars, but...

right from the beginning we had a great connection.

We have two friends that... we knew...

since we were 9 or 10 years old... no, Charly was like 5 years old I think.

neighbors from Chapalita.

They also liked music... they really weren't metalheads though.

But they said: "And why not?"

Tony was a metalhead...

Nah, Tony was not a metalhead.

Never.

They said: "Why don't we start a band?".

And... we couldn't decide what kind of music we should play?

What are we going to perform?

And so it happened one day, like a miracle,

like divine intervention when I went to...

Gigante, in those days there were only the Gigante stores,

And they had a bargain bin of albums in a big box for 30 pesos each.

Among those albums there was one by Eric Clapton and... Eric Clapton & the Yardbirds.

I saw the names, Clapton, of course, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck.

And I remembered that Sergio, a friend from school, had told me about it...

this music that was called blues.

Cool, I bought it, 30 pesos and I took it home,

and when we listened to it and we all liked it. We got together...

I think Abraham and I listened to it first and I told him: "Hey!".

And it was really cool.

All right, we liked it a lot and played it for Charly, for Tony...

And from there... I think that was the defining moment of "Well, we can play this". It's called blues.

I can tell you that I also knew Los Villanos...

Since the beginnings of Naranjito Blues Band.

I watched them evolve by playing in the streets at Paseo Chapultepec.

When they played in the street on Chapultepec Avenue every Saturday...

...for change and the applause from the people.

I played there with them a couple of times and...

every since those I have had a...

great relationship, a good friendship with them and we've grown together.

Well, they are doing really great things.

For us it was like,

something out of...

I don't know how to put it in words... something incredible because there was nothing like that.

So going to the streets to see them play and them letting us play was...

I don't know...

It was every Saturday.

Yes. Every Saturday we were there. Every Saturday. No exceptions.

I think they were fed up with us.

They are two very young musicians with an incredible talent.

Víctor Romero on bass and Iván Ramírez on drums.

Honestly, I don't remember, but they tell us they were...

11 or 12 years old when they came to listen to us in... in Chapultepec. They were in elementary school.

I think they've grown a lot... by being with Los Villanos,

because of this school that is THE BLUES.

Also, there is such great chemistry between them, it was very fortunate that their path's crossed.

because now they are...

two band members. They are a fantastic base for Los Villanos Blues Band.

They liked the music so much that they started taking lessons.

And when they were 15 years old...

they were already going to jams and came to our shows They were really great guys.

And Abraham and I were like:

"Where did these kids come from? How come they play so well?".

And they have so much talent. In fact... Víctor was...

Charly's substitute at Naranjito.

Yes. That is how it started.

There were times when Charly couldn't play, so we called Víctor and he started to...

to play with the band.

So when Naranjito Blues dissolved,

the first thing we did was: "Hey, Víctor, you want to play with us?"

One day they called us...

And like two days after that we saw an announcement in the newspaper that said:

"Naranjito Blues endorses young band". Right?

And that was when they invited us to Rojo Café...

to open for them.

So that's how we became even closer.

I met them like 10 years ago, at the first Salvatierra music festival in Guanajuato.

"Salvablues". Now it is a big festival.

But back then it was a...

something improvised, very small. Only local bands,

and among them were Naranjito Blues as they were called back then.

And they played blues, their thing was the blues.

It's been 10 years. And they were... well they were... teenagers.

Alfonso Robledo "Krusty".

And I actually think he got the nickname because of his voice.

Because of Krusty the clown from The Simpsons, who has a raspy voice.

That's Krusty's voice and his way of singing is...

like the blues should be. From the guts, from the heart.

One day Víctor comes and says:

"You won't believe what is about to happen. You won't believe it".

And he didn't tell us. He kept it a secret until the official announcement was about to be made. Right?

I remember it very well, it was...

I think it was a Wednesday when I went to eat with Naranjito Blues' bass player,

and we're chatting and he says to me:

"Hey, I have something very important to tell you, but don't tell anyone else".

"Ok, no, what is it?" "Naranjito Blues is going to be done".

"What!". I didn't believe him and he tells me: "Just don't tell anybody and that's that".

Later, the news came out and we were all like "Nooooo!".

"What are we going to do on Saturdays? Now what?"

That was a very crucial moment for each one of us.

Charly, well, when Naranjito Blues disbanded...

Or actually, the reason why it disbanded, was because Charly, the bass player, decided to quit the band.

Because he also is a writer and he wanted to focus more on that.

...and when he took his decision, also Tony, the drummer, decided to leave.

So... well, we decided... to end the band and change the name.

That decision was made in 2012.

And all that year long we announced that it was going to be our last year and literally...

Naranjito ended in December, and in January 2013 Los Villanos started.

When we started to listen to the Yardbirds and the blues...

We said: "We need find out more about it".

And I think... Charly was the one who told us: "There's a band here in Guadalajara that...

play the blues, Gato Gordo". And so we went to see them.

And their leader was Genaro Palacios.

And it was like "Ahhh!".

A lightbulb went off. It was like: "Ah, let's do this!".

They came to see us play when I played with Gato Gordo,

I remember precisely when. It was when we played at Plaza Fundadores, at a blues festival.

And they came, such youngsters, to...

To see what we were doing, to know the genre.

And so we invited them to Genaro's house and...

We got together to jam, to play, to...

learn and the friendship developed like that.

Something that I really admire about Genaro is...

All his career, right? All he's done for the blues,

on a national level, not just in Guadalajara.

Because in the end he's the man that's known by all blues artists here.

Many years have gone by, he's gone through many lineups, many bands, etc., etc.

But he follows his goal to keep playing the blues to keep taking it everywhere.

And he transcends generations.

We met him when we were 14 or 15 years old. He's someone to admire.

He encouraged us a lot by saying: "It's good that...

That young people are getting interested in this music", because back then...

There were no young bands that were playing this kind of music.

And... at the end he told us that we even helped him to get back into music.

To have the energy to go back and go on stage.

And for us he's a... It has been always a pleasure to share with him because...

You could say it was him who...

Who encouraged us to follow this path. "It's not easy", he told us.

"But it can be done".

They are very close, the four of them are very committed to their band.

The four of them are going in the same direction and I think that's important.

Anyone working in that manner, with such determination,

has the chance to...

To achieve something very big. I hope it turns out like that.

On Saturdays, I used to go with my daughter to Chapultepec, and that's where I started listening to them.

And I've witnessed their evolution.

And I say, wow, it is so cool to...

To see the result of their work, the discipline, the devotion to it.

I think it's impressive the ease they have to say so much when they play... play the blues.

On top of being great musicians, they are great friends.

And I wish them the very best in life because they need to keep moving forward and...

I think that is where they are going. It is inevitable.

That they keep on doing it, right? We'll saw what else will happen with them.