XXX (ZZ Top album) XXX (ZZ Top album) XXX is the thirteenth studio album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1999. The album's title is a reference to it being thirty years since the band was formed. The live track, "Sinpusher", is an altered version of their 1994 song "Pincushion" with different lyrics and a slightly heavier guitar riff. The album peaked at number 100 on the "Billboard" 200. It was their first album without Bill Ham at the helm as producer. Allmusic only gave the album one and a half stars, and in its review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
The Tripp The Tripp The Tripp, known earlier as The Just Us and later Livingston's Journey, was a Canadian rock band, based in Toronto, Ontario from the mid-1960s, featuring Neil Merryweather and Stan Endersby. Keyboard player Ed Roth, drummer Bob Ablack, lead guitarist Bill Ross and Brian Hughes started out playing rock instrumentals in a suburban Toronto band the XLs, which became Gary & The Reflections with the addition of singer Gary Muir in 1964. In early 1965, singer Bobby Neilson replaced Muir and the group changed its name to The Ookpiks, after a native-designed stuffed toy owl called Ookpik that was