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Vic Ruggiero

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Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, (also known as Rugaroo, Bad Vic or Lord Sluggo) is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in reggae, blues, ska and rocksteady bands since the early 1990s, including The Slackers, Stubborn All-Stars, SKAndalous All Stars, Crazy Baldhead and The Silencers (not to be confused with the Scottish rock band The Silencers). [1]

90 relations: Acoustic music, Alive at the Ladybug House, Allen Ginsberg, An Afternoon in Dub, Apocalypse, Ara Babajian, Asian Man Records, Avant-garde, Ballad, Banjo, Bass guitar, Beat Generation, Before There Were Slackers There Were..., Better Late Than Never (The Slackers album), Black comedy, Blues, Chris Murray (musician), Cigar box guitar, Close My Eyes (album), Cornell Campbell, Crazy Baldhead Sound System, Glen Adams, Grief, Groovie Ghoulies, Guitar, Hamburguru, Harmonica, Haunted Cities, Hellcat Records, Hip hop, Honor Is All We Know, Horn section, Indestructible (Rancid album), International War Criminal, Irony, Jack Kerouac, Jay Nugent, John Lennon, Korg CX-3, Let the Dominoes Fall, Life Won't Wait, List of hardcore punk subgenres, Live at Ernesto's, Metropolitan Opera, Moon Ska World, Murder, New York (state), New York City, Open Season (Stubborn All-Stars album), Organist, ..., Paranoia, Peculiar (album), Percussion instrument, Piano, Psychedelic music, Punk rock, Rancid (band), Redlight (album), Reggae, Rhodes piano, Rock music, Rocksteady, Roland VK-7, Romance (love), Scotland, Self Medication (album), Singing, Ska, SKAndalous All-Stars, Slackness (album), Something in My Blindspot, Stubborn All-Stars, The Boss Harmony Sessions, The Bronx, The Congos, The Great Rocksteady Swindle, The Phenomenauts, The Question (The Slackers album), The Rocksteady Seven, The Silencers (band), The Slackers, The Slackers (album), The Slackers and Friends, The Slackers/Pulley Split, The Upsetters, Top Secret Bountry and Clues, Transplants (album), Try This, Understanding New Jersey & Living in Sin, Wasted Days. Expand index (40 more) »

Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Alive at the Ladybug House

Alive at the Ladybug House is the second solo, acoustic album from The Slackers' keyboardist/lead singer, Vic Ruggiero.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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An Afternoon in Dub

An Afternoon in Dub is an album by the New York ska band The Slackers.

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Apocalypse

An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω, literally meaning "an uncovering") is a disclosure of knowledge or revelation.

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Ara Babajian

Ara Babajian (born July 9, 1972) is an American drummer who has been a member of such bands as Leftöver Crack and The Slackers.

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Asian Man Records

Asian Man Records is a small, DIY record label run by Mike Park in Monte Sereno, California.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Before There Were Slackers There Were...

Before There Were Slackers There Were... is a collection of recordings from 1992, 1994, and 1995 by The Slackers under the pseudonym, The Nods.

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Better Late Than Never (The Slackers album)

Better Late Than Never is the debut full-length album by the ska/reggae band The Slackers, originally released in 1996 on Moon Ska Records.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Chris Murray (musician)

Chris Murray (born September 26, 1966) is a Canadian-singer-songwriter and guitarist working primarily in the genre of ska.

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Cigar box guitar

The cigar box guitar is a primitive chordophone that uses an empty cigar box as a resonator.

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Close My Eyes (album)

Close My Eyes is an album by The Slackers first released in 2003.

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Cornell Campbell

Cornel Campbell aka Don Cornel or Don Gorgon (born 23 November 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known for his trademark falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his later work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s.

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Crazy Baldhead Sound System

Crazy Baldhead is a side project of The Slackers headed by Jayson "Agent Jay" Nugent.

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Glen Adams

Glen Adams (27 November 1945 – 17 December 2010) was a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Grief

Grief is a multifaceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.

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Groovie Ghoulies

The Groovie Ghoulies were an American pop punk band from Sacramento, California, United States, whose music took inspiration from horror movies.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hamburguru

Hamburguru, is the third solo CD by The Slackers' organist and lead singer, Vic Ruggiero.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Haunted Cities

Haunted Cities is the second studio album by the American punk rock/hip hop band Transplants.

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Hellcat Records

Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California, United States..

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Honor Is All We Know

...Honor Is All We Know is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid, released on October 27, 2014.

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Horn section

A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.

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Indestructible (Rancid album)

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International War Criminal

International War Criminal is an EP by The Slackers first released in 2004.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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Jay Nugent

Jayson Nugent (born 1972; also known as Agent Jay, and Crazy Baldhead) is a guitarist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaican music genres.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Korg CX-3

The Korg CX-3 is a clonewheel organ that simulates the sound of an electromechanical Hammond organ.

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Let the Dominoes Fall

Let the Dominoes Fall is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid.

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Life Won't Wait

Life Won't Wait is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid.

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List of hardcore punk subgenres

This is a list of all hardcore musical genres.

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Live at Ernesto's

Live At Ernesto's is an album by The Slackers released in 2000 by Hellcat Records.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Moon Ska World

Moon Ska World, formerly known as Moon Ska Europe, is a ska record label based in the United Kingdom.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Open Season (Stubborn All-Stars album)

Open Season is the debut album by the Stubborn All-Stars.

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Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ.

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Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

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Peculiar (album)

Peculiar is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Rancid (band)

Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991.

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Redlight (album)

Redlight is an album by The Slackers, released on September 23, 1997 on Hellcat Records.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhodes piano

The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano or simply Fender Rhodes or Rhodes) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

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Roland VK-7

The Roland VK-7 is an electronic keyboard introduced in 1997 which simulates the sound of an electromechanical Hammond organ.

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Romance (love)

Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Self Medication (album)

Self Medication is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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SKAndalous All-Stars

The SKAndalous All-Stars are a ska band, composed of members of The Slackers, the Skatalites, Mephiskapheles, the Stubborn All-Stars, Agent 99, Ruder Than You, Sic & Mad, The Excalibur, Cocktaillica, The Hurtin' Buckaroos, Living Colour, Perfect Thyroid, the Cycle Sluts from Hell, and The Klezmatics, and is led by Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero.

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Slackness (album)

Slackness is a collaborative album between acoustic ska vocalist Chris Murray and the New York City ska band The Slackers.

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Something in My Blindspot

Something In My Blindspot is the fourth solo album by The Slackers' organist and lead singer, Vic Ruggiero.

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Stubborn All-Stars

Stubborn All-Stars are a New York City ska band led by King Django, front man of Skinnerbox and owner of Stubborn Records.

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The Boss Harmony Sessions

The Boss Harmony Sessions is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Congos

The Congos are a reggae vocal group from Jamaica which formed as the duo "Ashanti" Roy Johnson (tenor) (b. Roydel Johnson, 1947, Hanover, Jamaica) and Cedric Myton (falsetto) (b. 1947, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica), later becoming a trio with the addition of Watty Burnett (baritone) (b.early 1950s, Port Antonio, Jamaica), and have been active on and off from the mid-1970s until the present day.

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The Great Rocksteady Swindle

The Great Rocksteady Swindle is the twelfth studio album from New York City ska band The Slackers.

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The Phenomenauts

The Phenomenauts are a musical band from Oakland, California that combine several styles of music with a futuristic science fiction theme.

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The Question (The Slackers album)

The Question is an album by The Slackers, released on November 20, 1998 (see 1998 in music) on Hell-Cat Records.

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The Rocksteady Seven

The Rocksteady 7 or "David Hillyard & the Rocksteady Seven", is an American Ska and Jazz band from New York, New York that formed in 1992.

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The Silencers (band)

The Silencers are a Scottish rock band formed in London in 1986 by Jimme O'Neill and Cha Burns, two ex-members of the post-punk outfit Fingerprintz.

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The Slackers

The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Manhattan in 1991.

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The Slackers (album)

The Slackers was a cassette-only 1993 album by The Slackers.

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The Slackers and Friends

The Slackers and Friends is an album by the ska/reggae band The Slackers.

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The Slackers/Pulley Split

The Slackers/Pulley Split is a split EP by The Slackers, a New York ska band, and Pulley, a punk rock band.

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The Upsetters

The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry.

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Top Secret Bountry and Clues

Top Secret Bountry and Clues, also known as Blues and Clues is a demo CD which is only being sold at shows of The Slackers' organist/lead singer, Vic Ruggiero.

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Transplants (album)

Transplants is the eponymous debut studio album by the American punk rock/hip hop band Transplants.

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Try This

Try This is the third studio album by recording artist Pink.

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Understanding New Jersey & Living in Sin

Understanding New Jersey & Living in Sin is the first solo, acoustic album from The Slackers' keyboardist/lead singer Vic Ruggiero.

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Wasted Days

Wasted Days is an album by the ska/reggae band The Slackers, released on February 21, 2001 on Hellcat Records.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Ruggiero

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