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.
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".
The accidental death of Snupi in an automobile accident in 1999 brought Tripi back to Spain temporarily, bringing some published old live recordings from the band: the work "los conciertos de JB".
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.
In 2002 Tripi, by then relocated to Yonkers, New York, gathered two North American musicians (drummer Michael Bernazzani and bassist Jimmy Verlezza) and formed TripiJB, a sequel of the JB band, with the same songs and style.
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".
Tripi relocated to Columbia, Missouri for two years to finish a Doctor in Philosophy degree in engineering; he soon returned to Puerto Rico, where Tripi JB still does occasional shows on hard rock venues with different lineups in the past few years most recently with Rolando Melendez on bass and Albert Davila on drums this lineup recorded a live set at San Juan club 77 that can be heard on sound cloud.