clipper314
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Blind Toronto Guitarist Jeff Healey - Dead at 41
After a long battle with cancer..
I've seen him play many many times.
He was an amazing guitarist.. Just amazing.
His playing sent shivers down my spine.
I've stood at the very edge of a stage at the Horseshoe and watched him from 5 feet away and just been blown away.
Picking my jaw off the floor blown away..
See for yourself..
Jeff Healey - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Letterman - early 90s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw
Blind since he was a baby.. became one of the greatest guitarists Canada has ever produced.. I am sad.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/03/02/guitarist-jeff-healey-dies-at-41.aspx
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Re: Blind Toronto Guitarist Jeff Healey - Dead at 41
Jeff Healey - Yer Blues (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnPivbWY-I
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Re: Blind Toronto Guitarist Jeff Healey - Dead at 41
That is a great loss. Sorry to learn about him so late.
--- When you need a cat, one will find you.
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3/3/2008, 6:18 am
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Re: Blind Toronto Guitarist Jeff Healey - Dead at 41
He owned and operated his own club here in Toronto called "Jeff Healey's Roadhouse" ..
http://www.jeffhealeysroadhouse.com/
So you could go see him play just about any time you wanted really.
He didn't look well at all the last time I saw him play there last year, but I mean no one had any idea the cancer had spread as much as it had.
Apparently it had spread to his lungs and even into his legs.
But he was still up there wailing away..
But come to think of it he stayed seated the whole time.. never got up while playing once. He also sang very little.
I guess I know why now. He was such an inspiration to guitarists in Toronto.
It was different than with other great guitarists because he was totally unique.. and you couldn't imitate his style or play anything the way he played it because of his unorthodox style..
When he wasn't wailing on guitar he liked to play jazz trumpet in his other band..
I think he played trad style dixieland style jazz trumpet as well.
Yup..
One of a kind he was..
He leaves behind his wife and two kids age 13 and 3.
Rent the 1989 Patrick Swayze film "Roadhouse" if you want to see more of Jeff when he was a young lion.
He and his band are featured prominently in that film as the house band that plays behind the chicken wire..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/
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