I'm sad.
Other bad news..
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/308736
I'm sad.
Other bad news..
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/308736
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Confidence Man , Angel Eyes and the way he played sitting down is what I remember.
He was cool..
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Man , I just got the news. Major bummer.
Jeff was like a Toronto institution. He was a monster player. For the last couple of years I've been enjoying listenening to his weekly radio program on 91.1 JAZZ-FM Toronto. He'd played nothing but early jazz and dixieland from the 1920's to the 40's . The guy was a walkin encyclopedia of Jazz and blues knowledge.
Known to be quite a drinker back in the day ,I've known a couple of friends around T.O.helping to pour Jeff into a taxi after a night of boozing at the local.
Shit ,41 is way too young. I'm gonna miss that guy......
R.I.P. Jeff
When a blind man cries- with Ian Gillan
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See the Light
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While my guitar gently Weeps
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healey - Look at Little Sister
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That is sad. I followed his career since the beginning. Too bad
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That is sad. I followed his career since the beginning. Too bad
Damn,So Young And Full Of Life.
R.I.P. Jeff.
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R.I.P.
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Damm, I loved "Angel Eyes" it always got the chicks wet!!
He did a great job in "Road House" too.
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I just read that he passed too. Here is the article that says that he was to have another album come out in April. His first in 8 years.
TORONTO - Blind rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey has died after a lifelong battle against cancer. He was 41.
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Healey died Sunday evening in a Toronto hospital, said bandmate Colin Bray, who was in the room with Healey's family when the guitarist died.
The Grammy-nominated Healey rose to stardom as the leader of the Jeff Healey Band, a rock-oriented trio that gained international acclaim and platinum record sales with the 1988 album "See the Light." The album included the hit single "Angel Eyes."
Healey had battled cancer since age 1, when a rare form of retinal cancer known as Retinoblastoma claimed his eyesight.
Due to his blindness, Healey taught himself to play guitar by laying the instrument across his lap.
His unique playing style, combined with his blues-oriented vocals, earned him a reputation as a teenage musical prodigy. He shared stages with George Harrison, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Bray said he and many others expected the guitarist to rally from this latest illness.
"I don't think any of us thought this was going to happen," Bray said. "We just thought he was going to bounce back as he always does."
Healey had undergone numerous operations in recent years to remove tumors from his lungs and leg.
Bray and fellow bandmate Gary Scriven remembered their frontman as a musician of rare abilities with a generous nature and wicked sense of humor.
Healey's true love was jazz, the genre that dominated his three most recent albums.
His love of jazz led him to host radio shows in Canada where he spun long-forgotten numbers from his personal collection of over 30,000 vinyl records.
His death came weeks before the release of his first rock album in eight years.
"Mess of Blues" is slated for a North American release on April 22.
He is survived by his wife, Christie, and two children.
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Very sad news, and one hell of an incredible talent.
He'll be missed.
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Sucks...so young too.
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He could be the most underated guitar player in HISTORY !!! He was so good it was hard to believe that he learned to play blind !!! And layed it across his lap the way he did. I am playing See The Light as I write this. But he was way better live. I got to see him in Alpine Valley the weekend Stevie died. R.I.P. Jeff we miss you already.
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Terrible news.
They played some bars here when they first started out.
The people watching were Blown Away, along with myself!!
Great talent.
Big loss for Canadian Music.
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God Bless Ya, Jeff Healey.
A Bluesman just as sho' as his name!!
I once heard a version of Jeff Healey and Lenny Kravitz workin' up,"Hey Joe,"
,,,RIP...
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Just re-bought "See the Light" on vinyl. Sorry, can't help digging up this thread... But Jeff Healey sure is somebody worth mentioning now and then.
https://youtu.be/CGpXR9qY77s
Playing with Marcus Miller on bass (well, not maracas of course). I once read Healey had about 25,000 1920s and 1930s jazz records, a music he dug more than blues.
What a great musician, and surely a great man too. Almost 9 years...
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Love him , his version of badge is one of my fav tunes
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He was mediocre at best. Pop-sloppy white boy blooz playing with the same worn out cliches and riffs. Listening to Jeff Healey was like listening to your drunk uncle play guitar as part of his rehab therapy. I've shat coffee turds that had more class.
But thanks for this, you lovers of other failed musicians. This put me in the mood to catch up on my podcast hate mail. Starting with YOU, Jennifer Briney.
How anyone can talk for nearly 3 hours and yet have nothing to say boggles the mind.
Oh, RIP, Jeff. I won't miss you.
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I bet he never saw it coming!
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Stationed? You mean institutionalized
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