News about Sleepy John (john floyd)

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 18 Feb 2002 4:19 am

The world of music has suffered a great loss for sure. John Floyd (AKA Sleepy John) one of southern Virginia's premier bass players has abandoned the Bass!!!!!!! I can't believe it. He's now on the road to becoming one of our premier lead guitarists. John told me that he orginally was a guitar player but while in Nashville he happened to encouter a legendary West Coast Player (AL BRUNO) and decided to give up the guitar in favor of the bass. I'm glad he did as we've worked some good gigs together and have become good friends away from the music as well. I called John about a bass gig a few days ago and he said he couldn't play bass anymore as he'd mess up his nails! What do you think of that? A few years ago you never heard of anything like that! How many of you guitar players use artificial nails? I use them on acoustic guitar but I use finger picks on electric. Anyway, Ol' John is going to be a great addition to the lead guitar world as he's got some great technique and with a little more experience in a band he'll be a real contender.....Look out Earl Erb, Gregg Galbraith, Brent Mason, etc. Sleepy John is out for blood.....

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John Floyd · Post by **John Floyd** » 18 Feb 2002 4:46 am

Oh No!!!

Ain't never gonna be any competition for those guys you listed, but Earl and Gregg are my Living Heroes and Earl has been an inspiration to me along with giving me some good advice. This has been a Life long Dream of mine to be a good guitar player and with almost 6 months of being unemployed, I have put that time to practicing for hours every day some times as much as 6-8 hours a day. I don't want to brag, but it is paying off. I've surprised myself a couple of times.

Ole Al Bruno sure scared the sh!t out of me in Nashburg in 1972 and caused me to put down the guitar for almost 28 years. I even named two Dawgs after him. One of them was like Al, a Gud Un. The other one was a lot like Ole Jerry, Didn't listen worth a damn.

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John
[This message was edited by John Floyd on 18 February 2002 at 02:52 PM.]

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 18 Feb 2002 12:04 pm

Its good to see John back in action on the forum as well as musically. He is an asset to country music.

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Graham · Post by **Graham** » 18 Feb 2002 1:56 pm

If John is back, maybe he'll share some more of them good ole stories of used to be Nashville with us. They sure made for good reading!!

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Richard Bass · Post by **Richard Bass** » 18 Feb 2002 3:37 pm

OH NO!!!! More competition

Good to see you back on the Forum old friend.
Richard

John Floyd · Post by **John Floyd** » 18 Feb 2002 4:50 pm

Richard
Good to be back. Boy do you ever have the old part right, turned 61 on the 2nd. I Sure as Hell ain't no competition for you, but I would love to visit and steal some of your licks someday as well as Earl's and Gregg's. I feel like I'm getting to the point where I can steal some of them anyway

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John
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Al Udeen · Post by **Al Udeen** » 18 Feb 2002 7:17 pm

Retcop! I got tired of playing with guys that were always cutting the cheese!