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Canadian rocker Jeff Healy dies of cancer

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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 17:07
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:05 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM





Healy was an amazing guitarist - teaching himself to play even though blind since an early age. I saw his band in Chicago back in the 80's and I've never forgotten the intensity with which Jeff played that axe... he was truly an inspiration. If there ever was such a thing as a rock and roll heaven, i'd be willing to bet that Jeff and Stevie Ray are jamming right now.
Rest in peace, man.


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OTTAWA (AFP) — Blind Canadian rocker Jeff Healy, who uniquely played his guitar flat on his lap, died of cancer Sunday on the eve of his latest album release, his publicist said in a statement.

Healy, 41, died in a Toronto hospital of a rare cancer, retino blastoma, that he had fought since birth and which claimed his eyesight at the age of one.

"Visually, Jeff was an intriguing player to watch, because he played guitar -- by any conventional standard -- all wrong, with it flat across his lap," his publicist Richard Flohil told broadcaster CTV. "But he was a remarkable, a virtuoso player."

The Jeff Healy Band's 1988 Grammy-nominated album "See the Light," which included the hit "Angle Eyes," sold more than one million copies in the United States.
He played with blues legends B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn, and recorded with George Harrison, Mark Knopfler, and the late Jimmy Rogers.

At the time of his death, he was about to release his first rock-blues album in eight years, "Mess of Blues." The CD will be released in March and April in North America and Europe, respectively.



lots of vids of Jeff on YouTube... one with Stevie Ray... I like this one...





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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:45 PM

BADKARMA00


I lost my brother last year, and he was a tremendous guitarist, and a rabid Healy fan. I'd like to think they're hangin' out on a cloud somewhere, playing.

RIP.

Bad_karma
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:56 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



I'm sorry about your brother. Don't know how old he was, but it does seem like a lot of good ones die young..

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 5:07 PM

AURAPTOR

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Damn. Liked his sound.

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