Floyd Videos

Moonshine Daze - 1989



Down On The Floor - 1988



Suck On This - 1990 (Unreleased Song)



4 For The Road - 1989



City Of Angels - 1990 (After Name Change)

Skid Row Hi jinx

We got the highly sought after opening slot for the Skid Row show and we had the balls to put our name on the top of the poster, which looking back on it now is pretty comical.

This was a great show, Skid Row were starting to get really big and were touring with Bon Jovi at this time. Skid Row were playing with Bon Jovi the night before at BC Place stadium which holds 65 thousand people. They had a night off in Vancouver and decided to do their own show at 86 Street Music Hall which held about 1200 people.

I recall a few things about this show. One was arriving to sound check and Sebastian Bach was lying on a table all cocky telling Tommy that Steven Tyler was going to be watching his ass tonight "Aerosmith was in town recording at this time" I don't recall Tyler showing up later. We were kind of pissed off as they made us play two sets, which we thought was really dumb and took away from our show. We ended up splitting our set up and added in some Dolls and Rose Tattoo, AC/DC covers to fill it out. There were a lot of celebs there that night as I think it was Bob Rocks "producer" birthday. There was an allstar jam that took place at the end of Skid Rows set, Billy Duffy from The Cult got up, Nikki Sixx and Mike Reno. I was in our dressing room which was a changing room for the staff, I was putting on my gear when a guy walked in and asked if "this was Skid Rows dressing room?" I said no, they have the nice dressing room upstairs, then I was like "Holy shit!...that was Nikki Sixx!" The bar staff told us under any circumstance that we were not to have people outside of the band in the dressing room. No exceptions!

I ran into an old girlfriend of mine, that I ended up taking into the dressing room. We started messing around when some bouncer guy came in and started giving me shit for having someone in there. He then proceeded to kick us out the back of the club with me protesting about my gear and telling him, do you know who I am....in some half drunken stupor. So me and my girlfriend were stuck outside the club with no way to get back in to let my band mates where I was.

By the time the story got back to my band, it was completely distorted. Instead of getting kicked out for violating their rules, It was "Your drummer was caught doing blow in the bathroom" which was bullshit. The bad thing was Sebastian Bach invited our band into their after party in their dressing room, unfortunately when my mates went up to the dressing room and said who they were, the bar security gave him the supposed story of me doing blow and said they were not allowed into the party. Needless to say they were not pleased when they saw me after the show, until I told them the truth...they were still pissed though.

One cool thing that came from this show was my talk with Dave "Snake" Sabo. He was a really cool guy. We gave him our indy EP and he ended up passing it onto someone at Atlantic Records, which resulted in us doing a demo for them. He was a really classy guy.

The Cast Of Characters

Taken from the original Bio



Pretty Boy Floyd evolved from a Vancouver club act in 1985. It was this point Tommy Floyd eagerly set his sights on forming a powerful, high energy rock act, with a strong image and even stronger attitude. The latter being; dedication and sweat. By late "85" Tommy had succeeded in recruiting three permanent, and very anxious individuals. Even better, Pete Parker, Steve Bratz, and Sandy Hazard shared equally enduring club and road experience.

Through to 1988 Pretty Boy Floyd begged, borrowed, and stole money required for recording and staging notorious live shows. Each member even went so far as to separately gig in a different club act, while at the same time recording and performing as "Pretty Boy Floyd" to financially fulfill their number one commitment.

Within a short period of time Tommy Floyd and force have gained a reputation in and out of Vancouver as being the group to watch out for! This is clearly evident by the attendance at their adrenalin pumped shows, and by an equally growing and loyal fan club.

Pretty Boy Floyd believe in themselves and in their audience. They are currently working on making believers out of the music industry executives and radio programmers alike, with a self produced, self financed, independent six song E.P. appropriately entitled "Bullets n' Lipstik"

The sound is raw and infectious, and their look and attitude mischievous.

Pretty Boy Floyd is a West Coast/Canadian hard rock outfit with appeal, confidence, and balls. The have no desire to any distance short of all the way!

Tommy Floyd - Lead Vocalist


The machine gun toting lead singer and instigator of Pretty Boy Floyd, began singing professionally at age 15. His previous vocal training attracted a request to audition for a local
club act. It was obvious that being the centre of attention on a stage, had a lot more fringe benefits and promise than being a class clown. Never one to sit idle, Tommy toured constantly and then some, with numerous bands throughout his teens, always leaving an impression with his on and offstage antics. In 1985 Tommy formed Pretty Boy Floyd, it had a nice ring to it and besides if he was to act like a gangster, he might as well create a band with the same name and attitude.

Influences: Bon Scott, Steven Tyler, New York Dolls, Mick Jagger, David Lee Roth, Billie Holliday.

Pete Parker - Guitarist

Throughout childhood Pete constantly listened to blues guitar on his fathers records. This inspiration inevitably led to him plugging one in at age 16. The hunger to play live was soon to follow. Ironically enough

Steve Bratz





Sandy Hazard

The Beginning

The year was 1986 and I was 19 years old. My old drum teacher had given my number to a band called Pretty Boy Floyd, I received a phone call from one of the guys and asked if I'd be interested in trying out for the vacant drum spot. At the time PBF was a pretty happening hard rock cover band and had a good name for themselves and a cool gangster shtick image. I was elated to get the call as I was in between bands at the time. PBF was ready to make a full change from cover band to an all original foursome. I met with the guys Tommy, Pete and Steve "Walt" and gave them a demo tape I had and arranged to come and jam with them. They gave me a recent studio demo of theirs to learn which I listened to about a hundred times before my tryout. My memory fails me, but I think I did alright and I ended up getting the thumbs up to join the band. I was really excited.

All the guys in the band were very ambitious and gung ho on taking this to the next level. Tommy in particular was a one man marketing machine. I did a lot of marketing stuff in my old band, so him and I really hit in off in that respect. We started off rehearsing in Steve's uncles garage in White Rock to work on a bunch of new songs and get me up to speed with their other originals. We also did a few covers, Baby Please Don't go and Long Cool Woman by The Hollies which was a rather rocked up version. This is going back 22 years ago so memory is failing me a bit how long we jammed there.

I remember getting a call from Steve one day and telling me the practice place burned down. Tommy having some good insight, invited the City's biggest newspaper "The Province" to come down and do a story on us about local band loses all gear in fire. They did and printed our picture, that started the PBF PR machine going. What was to follow was a merciless onslaught of whoring, PR, in your face marketing that would have made any ad firm proud. We were relentless and had a unified vision of becoming rockstars!

After a bit of searching we found a new rehearsal place in Richmond, just outside Vancouver.
We must of jammed for a good 6 to 7 months before we were ready to do our first full on gig at club. We did a few showcase gigs incognito and played at some Indian reserve on the back of a flatbed truck. Those shows were to work out all the bugs. We got a show at this new happening club in this crappy hotel. It was called "The Hotel California" but the rock club downstairs was the Malibu Pub, It soon became a big hangout for rockers and a showcase venue for up and coming original rock/metal bands in Vancouver.


Our goal was to create a huge buzz so the place would be packed. We came up with an idea of these high gloss posters with our logo and some shlocky phrase like "lock up your daughters"
Pretty Boy Floyd coming soon. The posters were damn expensive for the time, but we thought we should do everything pro, nothing chincy. We put these posters everywhere, all over the downtown core and in record stores that would take them etc... We also wanted to look over the top, we used my Mastercard and spent about $1000 on getting some proper stage clothes to match our gangter image. Steve and Pete made a life size coffin for Tommy to come out on stage in. The final touch was to be one of the first people in Vancouver to get hair extensions. The technology had just come out, and we went and got the longest, biggest hair possible. We were ready to rock. The night came to play the Malibu and it was packed, along with a few rock luminaries like the guys from Kick-Axe. We played a great show, had an encore and started down a 5 year path of lows, extreme highs, and lowest of the lows. I'm Sandy Hazard, I played drums for Pretty Boy Floyd (Canada) and Tommy Floyd and this is our story.