Allen Shellenberger, the drummer for the multiplatinum-selling Orange County rock band Lit, has died. He was 39.
A video of Lit performing “My Own Worst Enemy” on July 26, 2008, live at House Of Blues, in Anaheim, CA., during their benefit for their drummer Allen Shellenberger after the jump….
Shellenberger died of brain cancer Thursday at his mother’s home in Artesia, said Ken Phillips, the band’s publicist. Shellenberger was diagnosed with malignant glioma in May 2008 and began undergoing treatment; he performed with the band until last fall.
“To know Al was to know laughter,” band members Kevin Baldes, Jeremy Popoff and A. Jay Popoff said in a joint statement. “He had a heart of gold and would do anything for anyone. Words cannot begin to express how much he will be missed.”
A graduate of Kennedy High School in La Palma, Shellenberger and his bandmates began performing together in 1989.
