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Sevendust’s Wild Ride to Survival | Music News
In 1999, Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon remembers a wild New Year’s Eve opening for Metallica—when Ted Nugent showed up riding a live buffalo, forcing stage reinforcements and ending in a jam with James Hetfield handing him a guitar. From gritty Atlanta beginnings in a rat-infested strip club next door, they rose to three straight gold albums despite early struggles: selling just hundreds of their first record, surviving threats from promoters over aggressive shows, and enduring financial chaos—including being sued for $40K by a convicted thief and bailing on tours due to unpaid rent. Nearly a…
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