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One of the earliest images of TripiJB

Tripi JB

TripiJB is a Spanish speaking Rock music band that is located in Puerto Rico.

The band is known in the underground scene of Spain, New York and Puerto Rico.

[edit] Biography

The band was founded in July of 1990 by bass player Manolo Serrano (Snupi), drummer Jose Joaquin Correa (Pepino) and Guitar player Luis (Tripi) Vicente. They were underground musicians coming from different bands like "Chinatown" and "Kie-13" with the idea of creating a strong Hard Rock band in Madrid, Spain.

They started playing in the neighborhood of Usera and soon they were known because their strong language and almost punk shows in stage.

Two years later (1992) singer Jorge Guzman Mendez joined the band and they started playing softer hard rock music, close to Deep Purple and David Coverdale styles. In 1993 they were semi-finalists in the "Villa de Madrid" rock contest. In that same year the band performed live at the Revolver Club in Madrid, along the band Grass, where they recorded their first work "JB en Revolver Club (Directo 1993)".

In 1994 The band incorporated virtuoso wild guitar player Francisco Gomez (Pako Demonio) when Tripi moved to USA leaving a guitar vacancy. They continued to play in Madrid, leading to a much harder style, close to the style of the band Motorhead. Jorge left the band.

After Tripi's coming back in 1997, the band kept both guitar players, Tripi started to sing, but never played on stage. However, they recorded their first studio album "Tarde, Mal y Nunca" with little production and scarce means, but with their most famous songs (as time would prove) like "El Hijo de Puta", "Animal", and "Borratxo". After this work, Tripi left Spain once more, and forever.

The tragic death of Snupi in 1999, made Tripi to come temporarily back to Spain bringing some published old live recordings from the band: the work "los conciertos de JB". This work was edited and published in the new record label Tripirecords, and shows "never seen before" live recordings of the band from 1990 to 1992. This same year, they performed a Manolo tribute concert in the famous Vallecas Heavy Metal lounge "El Killer". This concert was also recorded and published the same year "Konzierto Etíliko".

Tripi continued making studio records like "San Fermín '99" to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the band, and just one year later, Pako Demonio travelled to New York to record with Tripi another work, "Mala Yerba Nunca Muere". This record contained reflective songs about life and death and even displayed flamenco style in some of the songs.

In 2001, Tripi went back to Spain just to record the work "Konsixtente (Ruta 69)" and the very next year brought his friend Andy Toomey to perform with the band in a three concert tour around Madrid. The performances were recorded and published under the name "Kon Uno No Baxta (Doble Direzto 2002)".

In 2002 Tripi, radicated in NY, gathered two north American musicians and formed TripiJB, a sequel of JB band, with the same songs and style. They toured in New York, New Jersey and Washington DC during two years.

Tripi moved to Puerto Rico in 2003 searching for a better life and found bass Player Rolando Melendez and Drummer Dimas Mendez. They started playing right away all over the Puerto Rico island. The year 2004 Tripirecords published three albums containing live performances in Puerto Rico where it can be appreciated the new direction of the band towards a punk rock style, closer to the first CD "Tarde Mal y Nunca".

Nowadays Tripi is located in Columbia Missouri for personal reasons; but soon, he will be back to continue with the JB saga spreading his unique way of doing Hard Rock.

Tripi chronicles. November 2006.