individual whose emotional life is run over and ignored by the metropolis, gets to put them more in sight. That subject is far from new; Rockdrigo was fond of universal literature and must have been influenced by some of the many authors who have explored the loneliness of individual in the big city. His intimate and tragicomic tone can be understood in many cultures; but his language is plain and definitely local, chilango (that is, rooted in Mexico City), to the point that Rockdrigo was compared with the popular songwriter, singer and urban chronicler Chava Flores, who always used Mexican vernacular music forms and never came even close to having been a rock musician. Despite the differences of age, generation and style between Chava Flores and Rockdrigo we should say that, at that time, such language and subjects were very innovative in Mexican rock, which until then had been confined between translated American and British covers, dancing rhythms, love ballads, some misunderstood virtuosism and a lot of semi-clandestine young protest. Until the mid-1980s, most conservative groups of Mexican society were wary of Rock because of its load of rebellion and protest, so only artists who wrote mostly about love and used "acceptable" music forms usually tended to prosper. On the other hand, liberal groups, left and intellectuals were also wary of Rock because it was considered an aggression against Mexicanity and a by-product of Imperialism. Maybe the most important contribution by Rockdrigo in his lifetime was to show some kind of compatibility between Chava Flores and Bob Dylan. Covers and versions The original version album, Hurbanistorias (1984), was not commercially distributed until a long time after Rockdrigo González was dead; in the mid-1980s, it could only be found in a few music stores, at the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, in such marginal places or in some almost clandestine way. The darkness, slow rhythm and almost ascetic instrumentation of his "rupestre" style (Rockdrigo was dubbed as "the Mexican Bob Dylan"), contributed along with the difficulty in finding copies for the original version to be scarcely known at that time. Meanwhile, the veteran band Three Souls in my Mind reappeared in 1985 realigned, renamed as El Tri, with a new recording company and a much wider commercial reach. Their album "Simplemente", better arranged, produced and sold than all its precedents, was able to touch a broader audience, at the beginning of what