![]() They quickly invited Scabies back to Agnew's home studio to collaborate on an early Professor and the Madman song. At this gig, they met Scabies, who sat in with them for an encore of The Damned song "Smash It Up" – both Agnew and Elliott were fans of The Damned's The Black Album. In 2015, Elliott contacted Agnew to play a reunion show with The Critens for a private Christmas party in Costa Mesa, California. ![]() The band's name is a nod to Agnew's professorial career, while also a reference to the novel, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester. Having reunited, they began collaborating on original music as Professor and the Madman. In 2015, his ex-bandmate, Sean Elliott, got in touch with him about playing music together again. He is currently a math professor at CSU Fullerton. Īfter playing in punk bands as an adolescent, Agnew left the scene for college at 18, and got out of music in the early '90s while going to graduate school. Gray also played in Eddie and the Hot Rods and UFO. Scabies and Gray were the rhythm section of The Damned, and they appeared together on a pair of The Damned's studio albums: The Black Album (1980) and Strawberries (1982). Agnew had been in the punk bands Adolescents and D.I. ![]() Professor and the Madman is a four-piece American rock band featuring co-frontmen/songwriters Alfie Agnew and Sean Elliott, drummer Rat Scabies and bassist Paul Gray.
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