RIP Jeff Healy

[thejuice]

Some sad news, Jeff Healey's dead.

"Blind Canadian rock musician Jeff Healey has died in a Toronto hospital aged 41 from a rare form of cancer, his publicist has said. Healey, famed for playing his electric guitar flat on his lap, died of retino blastoma which originally claimed his sight when he was a one-year-old child.

His 1988 album See The Light was nominated for a Grammy award and sold one million copies in the US. Healey's latest album was due to be released in Canada on Monday.

'Remarkable'
Blues rock release Mess of Blues is expected to become available in the US and around Europe later this month and in April. He was also due to appear on Later With Jools Holland and tour the UK and Germany.

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

Healey played with blues legend BB King and recorded with Mark Knopfler and the late George Harrison. Last year, he underwent cancer surgery on his lungs and legs and had chemotherapy."

Maybe there are some of you who didnt know him or his music well here is just a sample of the immense talent he was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBCJ68mC4c

[lynchbhoy]

sad news, a great player and had some damn good music
'see the light' or 'angel eyes' were both superb imo

starred in the film 'Roadhouse'.

Have heard some funny stories where Jeff liked to get off his chair and play the guitar almost conventionally,while hopping blndly around the stage - fell off it on a good few occasions and gashed his head falling on the drum riser or getting hit by the bass guitar head!

[Fluffy Che]

Sad to hear that...fantastic guitarist. Only 41...not fair!!!

[clarshack]

RIP. i remember him from the 1989 film roadhouse with patrick swayze.