“I had an odd midlife crisis for a guy in a band,” says Johnny Colt, “[but] my midlife crisis was the opposite what it was supposed to be.”
His epiphany came when he was getting ready to play a show with Skynyrd several years ago. “I’m in Dallas. I’m sitting in a hotel connected to a mall playing some kind of outdoor show that’s attached to some sort of cattle contest. Not that there is anything wrong with cattle contests,” Colt tellswith a grin. “I’m just saying I’m doing that, and my daughter becomes a senior in high school. I realize, ‘Oh my God! It’s like she’s out the door.’ I had an odd midlife crisis for a guy in a band.
Colt’s association with Gaffrey began after the bassist and his family relocated to Florida. “I did not specifically aim to hire musicians,” Gaffrey, who started painting in 2001, tells. “It’s just that there are a lot of musicians that live around here. It started with Jeremiah [Campbell]. He worked here in the studio with me as my assistant. He built a lot of things for me and did everything.”
That’s how Neil Sebree came to Gaffrey Art Material, the paint manufacturing division of Gaffrey’s enterprises. Sebree and Campbell had performed together in the Waco Ramblers . The popular bluegrass band released one album, and in addition to performing around the Sunshine State, also played national bluegrass festivals and noted venues like Nashville’s Station Inn. “Neil started playing bass with us and that really took the band to another level,” Campbell says.
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