Frank Agnew

In 2010, Agnew joined 45 Grave, proceeding to take part in the recording of the band's 2012 Pick Your Poison album, released on Frontier Records. In 2013, Frank Agnew met The Voice's Bree Fondacaro, then performing under the stage name Bree Harlow Bree and Frank collaborated on her 2013 cover of 'Paint it Black' released through Arcadian Records. This began a successful collaboration with Bree Fondacaro in a band called the Fatalists.

Agnew joined The Adolescents in 1980 after leaving Social Distortion. When the Adolescents broke up in the summer of 1981, Agnew joined Legal Weapon with fellow Adolescent Steve Soto, and then played as a touring guitarist with T.S.O.L. to promote their Dance With Me album. Agnew reunited with the "Blue Album" line-up of the Adolescents in 1986, but left along with drummer Casey Royer before the recording of the 1987 Brats in Battalions album. Agnew returned to play guitar for two tracks on the Adolescents' 1988 Balboa Fun*Zone album, but he did not permanently rejoin the band. Agnew took part in another Adolescents reunion in 2004 and was the sole guitarist on the resulting O.C. Confidential album.

Frank Agnew was born into a musical family, half Irish and half Mexican-American. In 1972, his parents moved from La Puente to Fullerton, California. He began playing guitar professionally at an early age, and his brother Rikk sometimes had to sneak him in through the back door of 18 plus or 21 plus venues.

Francis Thomas "Frank" Agnew (born August 18, 1964) is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a member of punk rock band the Adolescents. Frank's brothers Rikk Agnew and Alfie Agnew, as well as his son Frank Agnew Jr., are also former Adolescents guitarists.