Jeff stayed loyal to the Squier brand for most of his career.” I never knew him to own or play a ‘70s Strat or mess with different pickup brands in fact he hated Strats of that vintage, and very much preferred Japanese ones from the ‘80s. But the thing to understand is that in the early to mid 1980s, the best guitars with the “Fender” name on them, at least according to Jeff, were those early Japanese Squiers.
Since then, the name Squier has been mostly associated with really low-dollar, entry-level guitars. Jeff started playing Strats in the early 1980s when quality control of Fender US was probably at its all-time low Fender was getting killed by import brands like Yamaha, Ibanez, and Tokai, and so they started their first offshore guitar manufacturing in Japan under the “Squier” brand to try to get prices down and compete with the imports. Much is made of the fact that Jeff played Squier guitars. Those Japanese Squiers were great guitars.
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His dad bought it for him at Hudson Music, a great little guitar shop that used to be in the west end of Toronto, not long before Jeff and I met.īut, during the commercial peak of the JHB, for the first few records and the movie Road House, he was using black JV Squiers with red single coil Evans pickups. Rob Quail (friend/guitarist/bandmate):“His first ever electric was a maple (yes, maple: body, neck, even the fretboard) SG copy with no logo on the headstock. Now fear not, if you aren’t a ‘gear head’ or musician – you’ll still have Jeff’s own words, some cool memories, and some pretty pics to see you through… 🙂 ~Rog (whilst leaning mostly on our good friend, Rob Quail, with a little help from guitarist Dan Noordermeer and Jeff’s long time tech, Bungie)… Due to an overwhelming amount of recent requests, today we are going to dig a bit into this aspect of Jeff’s career. There were times he had to be pleaded with to bring guitars out of the garage and into the house! However, despite the above quote from Jeff, he did have some favourite go-tos amongst instruments and gear. Certainly, Jeff’s phrasing, his unique ability to pull off tremendous string bends and crazy vibrato with ease… his style, though rooted in familiar backgrounds, filtered through his own sensibilities to create that ‘Jeff Healey sound’.įor the most part, Jeff treated his instruments as tools. I used to half-joke that his tone rested solely in his hands.
In all the years I knew him, no matter what rig he was playing through, whose borrowed guitar he was using, what band he was sitting in with… Jeff Healey, inevitably, unswervingly, always sounded like Jeff Healey. Give me something with six strings, keep it in tune, and make sure it’s working!” – Jeff Healey (The Strokes), Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band), Brian Hiatt (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Lenny Kravitz, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Jon Landau (Manager), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band), Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.“I’m not a gear man – never have been. THE VOTERS: Trey Anastasio, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Brian Bell (Weezer), Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket), James Burton, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Gary Clark Jr., Billy Corgan, Steve Cropper, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Anthony DeCurtis (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone), Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), Rick Derringer, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Melissa Etheridge, Don Felder (The Eagles), David Fricke (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), Peter Guralnick (Author), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Albert Hammond Jr. Featuring Keith Richards on Chuck Berry, Carlos Santana on Jerry Garcia, Tom Petty on George Harrison and more. We assembled a panel of top guitarists and other experts to rank their favorites and explain what separates the legends from everyone else.
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