The Jeff Healey Band - Live at Montreux 1999

Jeff Healey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 3, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eagle Records
• ASIN: B0007ZSHM6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,540 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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The Jeff Healey Band has made several appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, including this 1999 performance, which is now available on CD for the first time. Featuring 12 songs from their explosive set, the band (Healey, Joe Rockman on bass, Pat Rush on guitar, and Tom Stephen on drums) whips the crowd into a frenzy with a blues jam for the ages. Included in this remarkable set are hits "I Think I Love You Too Much", their cover of THE DOORS’ "Roadhouse Blues", "See The Light", and their US Top 10 smash "Angel Eyes"!

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad at All, Mates, March 30, 2006

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Misty Blue (Hamilton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Jeff Healey Band - Live at Montreux 1999 (Audio CD)

Despite Healey's preference for playing brass and singing traditional jazz, he sure can make that blues-rock guitar sing, despite admitting to inebriation and jetlag during this live performance. It's a sign of professionalism that he can still inject passion and soul into music that doesn't otherwise inspire him.

Audiophiles may be scared off by the earlier tracks, but "Roadhouse Blues", "See The Light" and "Hoochie Coochie Man" are worth the price of the disc on their own. Drummer Tom Stephen and bassist Joe Rockman were right on top of their game here.

The tremendously talented Pat Rush played second guitar in 1999, but erstwhile feral guitarist Philip Sayce (Melissa Etheridge) appears on two 1997 insertions - Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and Healey's own "That's What They Say".

Other standouts were Robert Johnson's "Stop Breakin' Down" (featuring "Paddy" on slide guitar) and the requisite slow-blues of "Third Degree" (Boyd/Dixon). Healey's penchant for singing "visual" songs continues to inspire fans fascinated by his obviously non-debilitating blindness.

Jeff even outdoes himself on his classic interpretation of Mark Knopfler's "I Think I Love You Too Much". Although he denigrates his own songwriting skills, "See The Light" and "Can't Get My Hands on You" are ingenious compositions. The latter features a kick-ass drum solo outro by Stephen.

John Lennon's emotionally revealing "Yer Blues" begins the heavy-duty blowout, but there's a momentary breath-catcher on Koller/Hiatt's "Angel Eyes", with which Healey will forever be identified and possibly cursed.

From there on, it's almost a half-hour of full-tilt boogie! Healey may have had his fill of rock'n'roll, but fans of this outfit will fall in love with him all over again, particularly during the guitar-lick crescendos with Pat Rush on "Roadhouse Blues", where he concedes it's "not bad for a couple of jetlagged idiots".

Diane Wells

4.0 out of 5 stars if your a Jeff fan ..., March 3, 2010

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This review is from: Live At Montreux 1999 (MP3 Download)

You should like this album...I am a big fan of Jeff when he is rockin the blues...not so much his other stuff though. This album is well recorded and flows quite well, a couple of missplaced solos and almost henrix type misplay...but ifs short lived and then he gets back to what he does best...rocking out. I busted a star for the over the top solo feel on a couple songs...I like Jeff when he's leading the band not drifting off from them you know...

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This boy can jam, September 14, 2009

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Richard G. Hull Jr. "jraider" (Rocklin, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Jeff Healey Band - Live at Montreux 1999 (Audio CD)

I,m a big jeff healy fan and he never disappoints. I don,t know how he does it, But i,m sure glad he does. I,ve got a couple of healy concerts and he really puts on a show. the crowds at his concerts are always blown away. You can never go wrong buying a Healy dvd.