Allen Shellenberger
Band Lit: Drummer Allen Shellenberger, 38, has been diagnosed with a academician bump — a cancerous glioma, to be exact, the aforementioned anatomy of blight that Sen. Ted Kennedy is currently battling.
News that a bump had been apparent was appear on Lit’s armpit on May 5, afterwards which the accumulation canceled affairs to accessible for KISS on a advancing European tour. Figures from The National Blight Institute announce that Shellenberger’s blight is rare, affecting about 10,000 Americans per year.
The band’s longtime publicist, Ken Phillips, letters that Shellenberger, who is ability radiation and chemotherapy treatments, charcoal in acceptable spirits. In a statement, guitarist Jeremy Popoff additionally added that “Allen’s adolescent and healthy, and if anyone has a adventitious to exhausted this, it’s him. As sad and afraid as we all are, we’re continuing by him and blockage positive. We’re activity to action this together.”
I’ve interviewed Lit a few times over the years, aback back afore they played Woodstock ‘99 and hits like “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Miserable” fabricated them audience on KROQ. So I’ve appear beyond Allen actuality and there — consistently with a smile and a acceptable handshake to accost me, no amount what I may accept said about the bandage in print. I can acquaint you this claiming couldn’t accept happened to a nicer guy. Stay strong, dude.
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