# Guitarist Jeff Healey, passes at age 41 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892 "2008-03-03T01:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/1 "2008-03-03T01:04:48Z")
[Jeff Healey](http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9191&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/2 "2008-03-03T01:11:15Z")
Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/3 "2008-03-03T01:52:38Z")
Oh, dear. I didn’t even know he was sick again. I recall him on CBC radio, playing from his collection of vintage jazz. A loss for us. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/4 "2008-03-03T02:21:04Z")
Well, shit. That well & truly sucks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/5 "2008-03-03T02:37:32Z")
I have been listening to ‘My Kinda Jazz’ since I first heard of its existence. We have lost a warm, friendly person as well as a gifted guitarist and a brilliant scholar of early Jazz. May he rest in peace… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/6 "2008-03-03T02:40:22Z")
He squeezed a lot of life out of the tube he was given. Really great player and from the sound of it a great man. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/7 "2008-03-03T02:42:36Z")
Jeff helped out very generously with a group of us in the NYC area who trade around burns and dubs of rare 78s. He had that rare quality in a musician, a seriously eclectic love of music no critic or musicologist would give a damn about. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/8 "2008-03-03T02:47:56Z")
Wow, I’m stunned. I used to be a regular at Albert’s Hall “Stormy Mondays” events, and he was frequently there. He was amazing live, as well as a great radio DJ. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/9 "2008-03-03T02:52:46Z")
A unique and warm guitarist who I always liked. I’ve sometimes tried to lay the guitar on my lap and do that upside down fingering thing he did. It’s freaking impossible. I don’t know how he did it. He kicked ass, though. Plus he fronted the house band in _Roadhouse_. That’s a cool thing to put on resume. “Angel Eyes” is a great song. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/10 "2008-03-03T02:58:17Z")
The album “See The Light” came out right after I got divorced and as I moved into my current house. That was a fun time in my life and STL was part of the soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/11 "2008-03-03T03:30:30Z")
Wow. I’m partly amazed that a) he died, and b) he was 41. I seem to remember him just breaking out as a teenager, or pretty young. But that might have been 16 years ago or so… Definitely a very talented guy. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/12 "2008-03-03T04:28:16Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Wow. I’m partly amazed that a) he died, and b) he was 41. I seem to remember him just breaking out as a teenager, or pretty young. But that might have been 16 years ago or so… Definitely a very talented guy. Sad. [/QUOTE] I think he was only 16 or 17 when he made his first album. He was very young, at any rate. He was a bit of a teen prodigy. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/13 "2008-03-03T04:54:59Z")
Man, that sucks. Life sure dealt him a lousy hand, but he made the absolute most of what he got. Great guitarist. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/14 "2008-03-03T08:15:35Z")
Excellent guitarist and extremely gifted. Hell to Pay is one of my all time favorite albums. I’ll be playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in his memory. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/15 "2008-03-03T12:33:49Z")
If heaven has a road house, I think it’s gonna sound like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY) for the next little while - Jeff Healey and Stevie Ray Vaughan ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/16 "2008-03-03T13:36:08Z")
That’s a shame. I saw Jeff perform at Nathan Philips Square (City Hall) in Toronto before he was famous or had a record deal, and he blew everybody away. You could tell that he was destined to be known for his skills, and it all happened for him not long after I saw him. I’ve just been going through the list of my recordings on VHS, and I have “Live In London: See The Light” and his appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, to perform “Confidence Man.” I’ll be transferring those to DVD soon. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/17 "2008-03-03T18:24:18Z")
☹ [One of my favorites Beatles cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw) ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/18 "2008-03-03T18:39:59Z")
[QUOTE=Le Ministre de l’au-delà] If heaven has a road house, I think it’s gonna sound like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY) for the next little while - Jeff Healey and Stevie Ray Vaughan [/QUOTE] That was incredible. Thanks for posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/19 "2008-03-03T19:37:10Z")
The first concert I ever saw was Jeff Healey playing at La Ronde when I was 18. The man and his band put on one hell of a show. A couple times Healey stood up and walked around (still playing the guitar on his lap), and when that wasn’t interesting enough he would flip it behind his head. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892/20 "2008-03-03T20:19:07Z")
I had no idea about his history of cancer. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-healey-passes-at-age-41/439892.md?page=2)