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Encyclopedia > Rat Scabies
Scabies at the time of the release of The Damned single New Rose, October 1976
Scabies at the time of the release of The Damned single New Rose, October 1976

Christopher Miller (born 30 July 1957), better known by the stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned. Image File history File links New Rose October 1976. ... Image File history File links New Rose October 1976. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stage name, or a screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers (such as actors, athletes, comedians, porn stars, musicians, and clowns). ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... The Damned are a punk rock/gothic rock band formed in London, England in 1976. ...


Scabies was born in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey. He played drums with Rot and London SS before founding The Damned with Brian James, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible. In 1995, disagreements about the release of the album Not of This Earth caused a fallout between Scabies and Vanian, and Scabies left the band. This had the effect of reuniting Vanian and Sensible, who had left The Damned in 1985, to sue Scabies and form a new line-up of The Damned without him. He remains excluded from The Damned to this day. Recently he has worked and played with Flipron [1]. Kingston upon Thames, part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is an ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned, and is now a lively suburb of London. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Brian James is a British rock and roll guitarist who played in the pioneering punk band, The Damned, and later in The Lords of the New Church. ... David Vanian is and has always been the core of the seminal alternative punk band; The Damned. ... Captain Sensible today Captain Sensible (born Ray Burns, April 24, 1954 in London) is a singer and guitarist (and sometimes bassist) who founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Scabies currently lives with his wife Viv and their three children in Brentford, and is the central character of the 2005 book Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail, written by former music journalist Christopher Dawes. The book was published in May 2005 and is billed as "A road trip, a rich historical yarn, and testimony to the odd nature of a great many friendships". He will be giving a talk on this topic, "Rennes-le-Château & The Grail", at UnCon 2006. Brentford is a suburb in the London Borough of Hounslow at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Brent in South West London, situated approximately 8 miles (12. ... Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail is a book written by Christopher Dawes and published in 2005 by Thunder’s Mouth Press in the US (ISBN 1560256788) and by Sceptre Books in the UK (ISBN 0340832118). ... Christopher Dawes is a British journalist and book author. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Nearly every year since 1994 the Fortean Times magazine has held its convention but, given its emphasis on strange phenomena, it is called the UnConvention or, more affectionately, UnCon. ...


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The Damned
Dave Vanian | Captain Sensible | Patricia Morrison | Monty Oxy Moron | Pinch
Former members: Brian James | Rat Scabies | Lu Edmunds | Algy Ward | Paul Gray | Roman Jugg | Bryn Merrick | Kris Dollimore | Allan Lee Shaw | Moose
The Damned discography
Studio albums: Damned, Damned, Damned | Music for Pleasure | Machine Gun Etiquette | The Black Album | Strawberries | Phantasmagoria | Anything | Not of This Earth | Grave Disorder
Live albums: Live Shepperton 80 | Live at Newcastle | Not The Captain's Birthday Party? | Mindless Directionless Energy | Final Damnation | The Damned Live | Ballroom Blitz - Live at the Lyceum | The School Bullies | Fiendish Shadows | Eternal Damnation Live | Molten Lager
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Masters of the Backside | London SS | The Lords of the New Church | David Vanian And The Phantom Chords | Punk Floyd

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The Damned - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1668 words)
Rat Scabies also tried out to be the group's drummer but was rejected.
The Damned were not generally respected at this point, having been accused by punks of being opportunists and poseurs, and by the wider public of being one hit wonders.
Scabies had justifiably been called a great drummer since the band's founding, but with the arrival of Ward, a 'real' bass player, the band was now operating with a full, tight rhythm section, remarkable in its speed and power.
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