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Re: Fame is Hell on Drummers!
congtats tk..keep banging
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8/8/2009, 6:25 pm
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Re: Fame is Hell on Drummers!
Pearl, you left that open for a Ratty comment for sure.
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8/8/2009, 8:45 pm
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well i'm blonde..and noone but u picked up on it..
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8/9/2009, 5:36 pm
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Re: Fame is Hell on Drummers!
 It's ok as long as it's his wife,Pearl.
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8/9/2009, 5:53 pm
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Where is that penquin????
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8/9/2009, 9:18 pm
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Re: Fame is Hell on Drummers!
Lit drummer dies of brain cancer
On Thursday, the drummer from the rock band Lit lost his valiant battle with brain cancer. Allen Shellenberger was 39.
In May 2008, Shellenberger was diagnosed with a Stage 4 malignant brain tumor. It was inoperable, but he immediately underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatments, as well as experimental therapy at Cedars-Sinai.
He was often driven from Orange County to his doctor’s appointments in L.A. by Kevin Baldes, Lit’s bass guitarist and acting nurse — who would dole out medication Allen’s mother had arranged in tiny Ziploc baggies with Post-Its on them. Allen never wanted to know how bad his prognosis was, and his bandmates never discussed it with him.
Allen played his last gig with Lit when they shared a bill with Sugar Ray and Everclear last fall. He played the entire set, even though No Doubt’s Adrian Young was backstage and ready to step in should his friend falter.
Allen was kind enough to let CNN accompany him on a doctor’s visit last year. He had lost weight, and his face was puffy from the steroids. The rest of Lit was there: Kevin, as well as brothers Jeremy and A. Jay Popoff. But in reality, all four thought of themselves as brothers, and at the end of our interview, Allen removed his shirt to reveal a new tattoo on his back — a sacred heart with a banner that read, “Family and Friends.” Those family members and friends were with him Thursday when he took his last breath.
Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray gave us this statement:
“Allen was a great drummer, but more importantly a great human being. His courage and positive outlook during his battle with cancer was an inspiration to us all. He will be missed dearly by a music community he helped enrich, and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family and my friends in LIT.”
Adrian Young of No Doubt had this to say:
“We’re deeply saddened by Allen’s passing. It’s a difficult moment but we take comfort in remembering how much he loved being in Lit, loved being a drummer and that he saw his rock’n'roll dreams come true. Our thoughts are with his family, bandmates and loved ones.”
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RIP Bobby Graham
In Memoriam
September 14, 2009
British session drummer, Bobby Graham, passed away on Monday, September 14th at the age of 69, after battling stomach cancer for more than four months.
Born in 1940 in Edmonton, North London, Bobby's first love was jazz, but he first played rock'n'roll with The Stormers - re-named The Outlaws by Joe Meek, for whom they served as a virtual houseband behind the likes of Mike Berry & John Leyton. He also worked with Joe Brown's Bruvvers, Marty Wilde's Wildcats & the John Berry Seven, and is rumored to have turned down an invitation to replace Pete Best in The Beatles.
"The Guitar Player" with Davey Graham in 1962 was the first of thousands of sessions with the likes of Petula Clark, Dusty Sprinfield, Brenda Lee, Them, The Kinks, Marianne Faithful, Eddy Mitchell, Francoise Hardy, and Sylvie Vartan.
Graham moved into production with The Pretty Things, made records with The London All Stars for France's Barclay Records, and spent four years with EMI Holland. From I973-75 Graham produced a variety of acts for Christian labels. He then opened The Trading Post, a collectors record shop in Edmonton. He soon tired of the 9-5 and started a business making training videos for Midland Bank and Ladbrokes and filming weddings and bar mitzvahs. 1990 saw a return to playing with The Jazz Experience, who continued to play with regularly around Hertfordshire until his recent illness. Graham also has a book, The Session Man, about his career experiences.
Bobby Graham probably played on more records in the 60s than any other session drummer, and some of his finest (and previously unissued) moments are on this album, Crazy Drums, Crazy Drummer, originally released back in 2000. Tracks included sessions with Rod Argent, The Outlaws and Jimmy Page, as well as a few more recently recorded tracks with his own band, Jazz Experience.
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