by Rog | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Guest Blog
Jeff Healey: Up for Anything I had the incredible good fortune of playing in Jeff’s rock / blues band for the last five years of his tragically short life. From the earliest days of Jeff’s fame, we were so blessed here in Toronto not only to have such a genuine...
by Rog | May 26, 2014 | Blog, Guest Blog
“I can’t say enough about working with Ed… Ed Stasium was a godsend. He just came in and knew exactly how to work with us.”- Jeff Healey Jeff Healey “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Very late during a sub-zero Canadian evening in January of 1990, a phone call came...
by Rog | Mar 12, 2014 | Blog, Guest Blog
Jeff was one of the sweetest, most humble and talented artists I’ve met. He had a truly unique and soulful style of guitar playing, was a great singer and such an incredible fan of a wide range of music, all of which he seemed to be able to ace. I was floored to...
by Rog | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog, Guest Blog
I think it was the late summer of 1980 and Powder Blues was topping the national charts with ‘Doin’ It Right’ (On the Wrong Side of Town). We were in Toronto appearing at the (now long-gone) Ontario Place Forum on the Lakefront. It was a fantastic evening with the...
by Rog | Sep 4, 2013 | Blog, Guest Blog
I am what you would call a MASTER of guitar. Please stop rolling your eyes. Let me be more specific. I am a master of what is known as “The Power Chord”; I expertly slide this lone finger configuration up and down any guitar neck, landing on any fret with...
by Rog | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog, Guest Blog
My friend Jeff Healey could play guitar like few before or after him, and in a style so singular it defied description. And what a musician. You could throw any song at him and he would rise to the occasion – playing it like he’d written it himself, never...