Description
Eagle Vision: The Jeff Healey Band — Live in Belgium DVD + CD Set
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details:
- Product Type: DVD Video + CD (2-disc set)
- Brand / Label: Eagle Vision / Convexe Entertainment (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
- Artist: The Jeff Healey Band
- Catalogue Number: ERDVCD063
- UPC: 5034504906396
- Release Year: 2012
- Recorded: July 1993, Peer Blues Festival, Belgium
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Blues rock, electric blues — live concert
Product Features
- Format: 2-disc set — 1× DVD + 1× CD
- Standard: NTSC
- Aspect ratio: 4:3
- Audio: Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo
- Region: Region 0 (region free)
- DVD running time: approx. 82 minutes
- Language: English
- Condition: Used — Very Good (VG)
Overview
Filmed in July 1993 at the Peer Blues Festival in Belgium, this captures the Jeff Healey Band mid-tour behind their Feel This album — and it catches them doing something different. The band usually played as a trio, but here they expand, adding a keyboard player and two backing vocalists, which gives the songs noticeably more depth and range.
Healey himself was one of the most distinctive guitarists in blues, playing the instrument flat across his lap rather than upright — a self-taught technique born of necessity that became his signature sound. On stage he was an electric performer, and this set runs from his own material to a blazing take on The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues" and a tender reading of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
The package pairs the full 82-minute concert film with a CD of the same performance, so you can watch it or take the audio with you. For blues and guitar fans, it's the band at the height of their live powers.
Interesting Facts
- Jeff Healey was blind from the age of one, having lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer.
- He developed a unique playing style, laying the guitar flat on his lap and fretting it from above — a technique almost no other player has matched.
- The Jeff Healey Band reached a wide audience after appearing in the 1989 film Road House alongside Patrick Swayze.
- This concert dates from the band's tour for Feel This, their third studio album, released in 1992.
- For these shows the usual power trio was augmented by keyboards and two backing vocalists, widening the band's live sound.
- Jeff Healey died in 2008 at the age of 41; releases like this preserve his reputation as a formidable live performer.
Track Listing (DVD & CD)
- Baby's Lookin' Hot
- The House That Love Built
- Evil and Here to Stay
- Confidence Man
- It Could All Get Blown Away
- Lost in Your Eyes
- Heart of an Angel
- Full Circle
- That's What They Say
- Angel Eyes
- Roadhouse Blues
- See the Light
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Track timings aren't printed on the packaging, so they're left off here. Send a photo of the disc menu and I'll add them.
Publishers
Released in 2012 as an Eagle Vision title, a division of Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd, in association with Convexe Entertainment. Executive producers Terry Shand and Geoff Kempin; supervising producer Mike Carden.
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