Sevendust is a band that shows no signs of slowing down. After 15 years, all five original band members are still making music together. Lajon Witherspoon (vocals), Morgan Rose (drums/vocals), Clint Lowery (guitar/vocals), Vince Hornsby (bass/vocals), John Connolly (guitar/vocals) just released their 9th full-length offering Black Out The Sun and are currently on tour around the U.S.
The Wounded Warrior Projectseeks to honor and empower the wounded servicemen and women. Their mission is to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation's history. Professional baseball player Johnny Damon established The Johnny Damon Foundation to raise and donate funds to various charitable organizations. Johnny Damon is a national spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Project which is one of the beneficiaries of his foundation.
Interviewed By: Lina Sarrapochiello
Introduction By: Giacinta Pace
Q: Which charities are you involved with and how are you involved?
Lajon: Wounded Warriors. The most recent thing we did was [The] Johnny Damon Golf Tournament. That's something that I've been involved with personally for the last three years. Johnny is a good friend of ours and something that we've always backed is the Wounded Warriors. We extend our hands to help him do that. On this last run we were actually [able] go in Camp Lejeune, go to a Wounded Warriors training facility where they were being healed. So that's a big charity that we hang out with a lot.
John: Homes For Our Troops.
Clint: Yeah, [we did] that. We did Make-A-Wish Foundation a few years ago. I did a release, an acoustic thing, for Make-A-Wish Foundation. We've contributed money to St. Jude's, Living Water, which is a program to install water in third world countries. I've been a part of that for a long time. There are so many different charities and they're all great, especially when you find one that's really, truly making a difference.
Morgan: I gave to the Children's Shelter in Atlanta. It's pretty easy for us when we do that kind of stuff. It's nice to see it [the shelter] actually do something for the kids. I did a tour of the shelter and that bunch of kids that were in there, heartbreaking as it was, it was nice to give them something back, you know?
Q: What is the nicest thing anyone's ever done for you?
Clint: My wife having my children. (Laughs)
Lejon: Yeah, my wife putting up with me.
Clint: We just had one [a child] recently, and it's pretty intense.
John: Uh, nicest thing, anyone's ever done for me? Wow, um, I don't know, that's...
Morgan: ...that's a hard question...
Vince: Someone's gonna be like, REALLY? You didn't remember that?!?!
Lejon: I'm gonna go with Clint. My wife putting up with what we do and staying home so long, and raising the babies.
Clint: Yeah, that's probably the coolest thing right now.
Morgan: Yeah, I can't say that...(Laughing). I could thank my wife for finally letting me see how shitty she was and divorcing and all. No, I would think the nicest thing that anybody ever did for me is my mother taking care of my daughter while I'm gone.
Clint: That's pretty good.
Q: Is there anything that you guys would like to add? Or, anything more you'd like to say...
Morgan: [This was] the most refreshing interview, if you want to call it that, that we've done all day.
