What band does Allen Shellenberger play drums for?
Lit keeps the light on for ailing drummer By Jerry Fink (contact) Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 | 2 a.m. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the alternative rock band Lit’s platinum-selling album “A Place in the Sun.” Band members should be celebrating their good fortune. Instead they are lamenting the misfortune of their drummer. Allen Shellenberger, 40, has been battling a malignant brain tumor for more than a year, and the tumor has reached Stage IV, the worst stage of cancer. Lit has been in limbo ever since the diagnosis, which affected everyone in the band. “It’s tough,” frontman A. Jay Popoff says during a telephone interview from his home in Fullerton, Calif. “We’ve been performing together for 18-plus years. We don’t know how we want to go about moving forward yet. It’s been the four original members from the beginning, and we want to be there for our brother, who is sick. “But we love playing live. It’s our entire existence, has been since we were kids.” To ease th
