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Sticky · 03-04-2008, 01:48 PM

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...1TSiwbFXNVIGwg

Jeff Healy died of cancer at the age of 41 this weekend.
I was so surprised when I heard about this on Sunday night. I never heard that he was sick.

What is most surprising is how quiet this has been.

silent_jay · 03-04-2008, 01:57 PM

Damn, had no idea he was sick either, or had I heard he died until now. He was a hell of a guitar player, even had a spot in Roadhouse back in the day, he'll be missed.

Sticky · 03-04-2008, 02:32 PM

...and here is an interesting page on cbc.ca
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2008..._healey_1.html

silent_jay · 03-04-2008, 02:40 PM

His most famous song, although I liked his blues much better than his pop, still a decent song.

YouTube - The Jeff Healey Band - Angel Eyes (Music Video)

Sorry they disabled embedding for this video it says.

mixedmedia · 03-04-2008, 03:02 PM

Wow. Bummer. I had no idea.

Sticky · 03-04-2008, 05:29 PM

I did not know this:
"Healey lost his sight when he was one year old, due to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes which he suffered from throughout his life and which ultimately killed him."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Healey

fresnelly · 03-04-2008, 07:10 PM

I was truly saddened by his death. He was a great musician and inspiring in many ways. I really feel for his family.

Baraka_Guru · 03-04-2008, 07:56 PM

I now regret never going to see him play.

For a year, I often walked by his club (though apparently it wasn't his).... I lived in the area.

thespian86 · 03-04-2008, 08:10 PM

I cried for about five minutes when I got the call from my mother around 6:30 yesterday morning. Jeff played a festival quite often in my hometown and when he was here he would stay with a childhood friend (his father helps run said festival) . When I was around eight or nine he played guitar for me, which in turn inspired me to start playing. A couple of days before I put Angel Eyes back on my I-Pod and had been listening to it quite a lot. It hit me really hard as he was a friend, albeit not a close one, but one that had a very serious impact on my life. He came here two years ago with the jazz wizards to play the festival (Harvest Jazz and Blues; it's pretty prominent music festival in Eastern Canada) and we talked about his life and about what I was doing. It is still kind of hard.

In the past three days my grandmother died, my inspiration died, and my hero retired. It's a hard week lol.

jewels · 03-05-2008, 01:38 AM

So young, so talented, so inspiring. RIP, Jeff.

Martian · 03-13-2008, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punkmusicfan21

I cried for about five minutes when I got the call from my mother around 6:30 yesterday morning. Jeff played a festival quite often in my hometown and when he was here he would stay with a childhood friend (his father helps run said festival) . When I was around eight or nine he played guitar for me, which in turn inspired me to start playing. A couple of days before I put Angel Eyes back on my I-Pod and had been listening to it quite a lot. It hit me really hard as he was a friend, albeit not a close one, but one that had a very serious impact on my life. He came here two years ago with the jazz wizards to play the festival (Harvest Jazz and Blues; it's pretty prominent music festival in Eastern Canada) and we talked about his life and about what I was doing. It is still kind of hard.

In the past three days my grandmother died, my inspiration died, and my hero retired. It's a hard week lol.

Dude, you're from Peterborough?

Healey was an amazing talent, not only in blues but across all genres. The good die young.

thespian86 · 03-17-2008, 06:37 PM

No I'm from Fredericton NB. My childhood best friend's father used to run the festival and I practically lived at their house and saw a lot of great talent pass through it. Jeff had an impact on me.

03-04-2008, 01:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
silent_jay Her Jay Location: Ontario for now....	Damn, had no idea he was sick either, or had I heard he died until now. He was a hell of a guitar player, even had a spot in Roadhouse back in the day, he'll be missed. __________________ Absence makes the heart grow fonder

03-04-2008, 03:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	Wow. Bummer. I had no idea. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

03-04-2008, 07:10 PM	#7 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	I was truly saddened by his death. He was a great musician and inspiring in many ways. I really feel for his family. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

03-04-2008, 07:56 PM	#8 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	I now regret never going to see him play. For a year, I often walked by his club (though apparently it wasn't his).... I lived in the area. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 03-04-2008 at 07:59 PM..

03-04-2008, 08:10 PM	#9 (permalink)
thespian86 change is hard. Location: the green room.	I cried for about five minutes when I got the call from my mother around 6:30 yesterday morning. Jeff played a festival quite often in my hometown and when he was here he would stay with a childhood friend (his father helps run said festival) . When I was around eight or nine he played guitar for me, which in turn inspired me to start playing. A couple of days before I put Angel Eyes back on my I-Pod and had been listening to it quite a lot. It hit me really hard as he was a friend, albeit not a close one, but one that had a very serious impact on my life. He came here two years ago with the jazz wizards to play the festival (Harvest Jazz and Blues; it's pretty prominent music festival in Eastern Canada) and we talked about his life and about what I was doing. It is still kind of hard. In the past three days my grandmother died, my inspiration died, and my hero retired. It's a hard week lol. __________________ EX: Whats new? ME: I officially love coffee more then you now. EX: uh... ME: So, not much.

03-04-2008, 01:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sticky	Jeff Healy Dies of Cancer http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...1TSiwbFXNVIGwg Jeff Healy died of cancer at the age of 41 this weekend. I was so surprised when I heard about this on Sunday night. I never heard that he was sick. What is most surprising is how quiet this has been. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-04-2008, 02:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sticky	...and here is an interesting page on cbc.ca http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2008..._healey_1.html __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-04-2008, 05:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
Sticky	I did not know this: "Healey lost his sight when he was one year old, due to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes which he suffered from throughout his life and which ultimately killed him." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Healey __________________ Sticky The Stickman

03-05-2008, 01:38 AM	#10 (permalink)
jewels Eponymous Location: Central Central Florida	So young, so talented, so inspiring. RIP, Jeff. __________________ We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Mark Twain

03-17-2008, 06:37 PM	#12 (permalink)
thespian86 change is hard. Location: the green room.	No I'm from Fredericton NB. My childhood best friend's father used to run the festival and I practically lived at their house and saw a lot of great talent pass through it. Jeff had an impact on me. __________________ EX: Whats new? ME: I officially love coffee more then you now. EX: uh... ME: So, not much.