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I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.

In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.