Vic playing a reggae version of "The Cat" (from the album Living in Sin/Understanding New Jersey) 
The picture shows the likeness of Vic's actual cat at that time on a - now out of print - T-Shirt 
Live recording by Onetinsoldier

Vic Ruggiero - The Cat (Live at Tiki's Rotterdam Sep 6 2009)

Live in Lindau 2009
Recorded by Jay Pee of Jump The Shark!

Vic Ruggiero - Rider (Live in Lindau)

Maddie and Vic met Jack in his living room on a snowy day in Bushwick. They recorded versions of songs sung by the Industrial Workers of the World. 

The IWW was, at one point, the world's largest and most radical union. In a time of institutionalized racism, members of the IWW organized side by side in solidarity with workers from many different ethnicities and backgrounds. They developed, and in some cases implemented, ideas of workplace democracy, wage slavery abolition, and the four hour work day. They developed the platform for what today we take for granted as workers' legal rights. 
One way the IWW rallied together their wobbly members (a nick name for IWW union members) was to sing songs based on famous tunes of the day. Famous working class poets and authors, such as Joe Hill (who served as a legendary pen name as well as an actual figure), wrote new words inspiring revolutionary direct democracy, solidarity, and satire against the scabs, bulls, and scissorbills. For a small dictionary of IWW lingo 

Vic Ruggiero, Jack Wright & Maddie Ruthless - There Is Power

Henderson Swamp feat. Maddie Ruthless
Album "Vic and Friends, Vol. 1" available from http://whatevski.org


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