Influenced by classical music, jazz and rock acts like Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum, La Comuna was formed in 1969 in Mexico City.
They soon gained national notoriety after winning the second place at the Festival Pop del Naranjazo, losing the first prize to jazz-rock band Tinta Blanca.
[2] Due to their radical views of society and their own strict counterculture values, they refused to appear six times in a row on the famous Telesistema Mexicano program Siempre en Domingo, hosted by Raúl Velasco.
This caused Peerless to cancel their projected LP and the band was soon without a record contract eventually disbanding in 1975 due to lack of work opportunities caused by the Avandarazo phenomenon and the end of the hippie trend worldwide.
[3] In the 1980s, Blanco, Mekler and Darszon formed Las Plumas Atómicas playing in cultural hubs around Mexico City.