Allen Shellenberger, Drummer of rock band Lit, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with Brain Cancer. He was 39 years old. Shellenberger founded Lit in Fullerton, California, during the early 1990s (first as a glam-rock outfit called Razzle) alongside brothers A. Jay and Jeremy Popoff and Bassist Kevin Baldes. The quartet released a handful of albums before breaking through in 1999 with the modern-rock hit "My Own Worst Enemy," from their A Place in the Sun album. The song sat at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and eventually pushed sales of Sun past the 1 million mark. Lit toured with No Doubt, Garbage and the Offspring in support of the album and released a pair of memorable follow-up singles, including "Zip-Lock," the video of which parodied Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" clip (and featured a cameo by a then up-and-coming Blink-182), and "Miserable," which saw the band performing on Pamela Anderson's posterior. Lit's discography also includes 2001's Atomic, a 2004 greatest-hits comp and a self-titled album released that same year after the band had split with RCA Records. In 2008, Shellenberger was diagnosed with a malignant Glioma Brain Tumor and immediately underwent clinical trials, chemotherapy and radiation at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute. His treatments were documented in an "ABC World News Tonight" piece that aired in May of that year. To pay for those treatments, his Lit bandmates threw benefit shows - featuring performances by their friends Sugar Ray and Adrian Young of No Doubt - and held eBay auctions, with bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maroon 5, the Dave Matthews Band and Queens of the Stone Age donating items for bid. Shellenberger is survived by his daughter, Giovanna, his mother, Connie James; and his father, Paul Shellenberger. In a statement released Friday (August 14), his former bandmates expressed their sorrow and remembered a man who was very much their musical brother.

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