Blind blues guitarist famous for playing with the guitar flat on his lap has died of cancer.
It was originally cancer that took his eyes when he was 1 and it seems that the evil beast known as cancer has come back and won the war it waged with Jeff.
In all honesty he hasn’t been all that prominent since the 80’s and early 90’s but I think most people of a certain age remember him and can’t help but have a degree of admiration for all he was able to accomplish especially given his disability.
On a semi-joking note, it allows me to post a video of the guitar duel from Crossroads between Steve Vai and Karate Kid (actually is was Ry Cooder) where Vai totally kicks the shit out of him but still somehow loses anyway which is ridiculous because Vai is god. I realize that it was Road House that Jeff Appeared in but I couldn’t find a good guitar video of that (though a humorous clip of it appears after the break) and Crossroads is pretty close since it’s a shit bar and a blues band.
Yeah, I mostly just wanted to work in the Crossroads video. ‘Head cuttin!”
God speed, Jeff. Keep on rockin’
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