La Ley Live in New York City

I first heard La Ley back in 1995, when i was watching TV at night. It was an adult TV show that did "imitaciones" of the popular songs. I remember it was a school day and i had stayed up late watching TV, that was the first time that i heard La LEY. The song was "Dia Cero", which stood for their new beginning after the death of their guitarist, that i didn't know then.

When i heard the song, the rhytim of it, the lyrics, the feelings in his voice; i knew i loved the song then. Since the TV show mocked the song but didn't say who it was, i had to figure out who sang it. I kept my ears open for the next couple of days, i had to find out who did that song. Then one day it came on the radio. "y eso fue Dia cero, de la banda chilena La Ley". It was an easy name to remember, then i kept my eye out in entertaiment shows to hear about them. Couple of weeks later a new Music TV show "la musica tiene sentido" did a special TV show on them. They were new to the mexican scene, but they had been together for a couple of years now. They were from Chile and their song "Dia Cero" seem to be pretty hot. I didn't record the show, in fact i missed half of it; i had been out to dinner with my dad.

I heard their songs for the rest of the show and they all just seem to make sense and make me feel something that no other song had made me feel.

For that christmas I asked for money to buy the La Ley CD, and I went out and bought the shirt and did nothing for the next couple of months but to listen to their "Invisible" Cd and sing out loud to their songs. I dragged my little sister Bety, who followed me for everything. I made her listen to the songs with me and sing as loud as she could with me. I used to have fights with my friends in 8th grade about La Ley songs and how they were the coolest band in the world. I had pictures of them hanging in my wall and i wrote part of their songs everywhere in my notebooks. I was obssessed but nobody took the time to tell me that.

Then we moved to the United States, we didn't take a lot of clothes with us because we were coming in a bus. I left my favorite pair of shoes, my favorite dress and my favorite sweater. But i did pack my La Ley shirt, my black pants and my combat boots. Being here was really hard, we didn't know the language and we didn't like it here, but little by little we got used to it. In february my older sister and I got a job, working in a mushroom camp. We would get up at 3 in the morning, and work until 5 in the afternoon. We worked 24 hours a weekend and only made $100. With my first paycheck i bought the Selena the movie Soundtrack, i first asked for La Ley but they didn't have any in stock. I waited until next week and bought it. $15, three hours of working.

"Vertigo" was the name of the CD. Very dark and very metal, nothing like "invisible". But i liked it, by that time i was wearing black everyday and listening to Vertigo made me fee just perfect. I am not lying to you when i tell you that i knew the whole CD by the end of the next week. I would listen to the tape of it that i had made when i was at work. We didn't have cable or any sort of communication with spanish television or the Latino world of entertaiment, which i think was great. They were all saying how this was one of the worst CD for the year. But La ley got plenty of publicity out of it, they made comercials for mountain dew and sabritas, i got a glipse of one of the commercials while i was in my uncle's house. It made my day!

After a couple of years my obsession kinna died down, i was too into living life after a boyfriend. Still i wanted everybody to know that i listen to La Ley and that i loved their music. There was a guy that i dated who told me that i was totally insane for listening to La Ley, we broke up after that.

Then there was another guy who had no idea who La Ley was, but tried really hard. He went an bought a couple of their CD's just to try to make me happy.

I went off to college and kinna forgot about them, not 100% but some.

Then came UNO. Everybody calls it their best CD, it has truly amazing songs. One of my favorites was "al Final", it showed exactly how i felt about Alberto. It has always been as if they knew what i was feeling and they knew how to put it in a song.

I listen to Uno when i was unpacking for my second year of college. I listen to UNO when i would walk to classes, everyday all the time and nothing else.

Then it came, nobody saw it coming. That day i was walking to get breakfast, i took the long way. I saw people acting funny but didn't make anything out of it. I approach to the cashier and order my breakfast, and i see people crying and yelling things. September 11, 2001. To this day i still remember that day with any of the songs from that CD.

By that time they had already released La Ley MTV Unplugged, in fact i was supposed to get the CD 2 days after september 11, but didn't because of the events.

Mentira is one of their best songs, and again it showed something about my life. A little bit after that I met the men of my life, and he was the one that understood, without pretending, what La Ley meant to me. He would let me listen to them everywhere we would go. His mom even bought me a Cd of La Ley.

Libertad, their last CD. One of their best songs, Amate y Salvate. The song had a beautiful message of peace.

And at last Historias e Histerias, a copilation of their biggest hits and all of their videos. My dream come true, i had only seen less than half of them and being able to see them all was amazing.

Then came the Goodbye tour. I don't know why but they have decided to "Take a break" It drives me crazy to think that there will not be a new La Ley CD for another 3 years. I have to live with what i have now, i don't know how to deal with that. Back to the tour, they were going to be in New York City for one night, June 30th, 2005; Webster Hall. I had to go....

I called the man of my life to tell him that we are going, he tells me that he would love nothing more but to take me to see them, but to wait. I wait and i wait, then i wait some more. One week before still nothing for sure. I went crazy and in a drunk moment on June 29th I tell DAvid to buy 5 tickets and that we are going to NYC to see La Ley. Somehow i get him to do it. I call my future husband and tell him but he needs a plan....

I work only half day the following day, (3:00) and i bring my little sister with me to the train station in Downingtown. We have no real plan on how we are getting there or how we are getting back but we are on our way to see La Ley in New YOrk City.

We get there and it's crowed, but we manage to make it close enought. ..... They come out and play "Ciertos Civiles" and even though i don't remember all the words to the song i sing at the top of my lungs to every word that i can remember. Then comes Animal, Dia Cero, El duelo, and i feel in heaven. I don't think that i had ever experience such feelings of happiness and joy. Then Alberto Cuevas, whom i've dream of meeting and propossing marriage to, aproaches the audience and i touched his hand. Again, the most amazing feelings that i've experienced in my life.

Now that i look back, I've grown up with La Ley and i've developed feelings to their songs. I love them and if i had to lie to my parents, and risk my job to go see them live I would.