You're right BD, about Jeff being a great guitar player, and he was much more that, too. His great love was jazz, Dixieland style, and he played, for many of his last years, in a band that played that style. He played a horn in that band. I had the good fortune to meet him in 1987 when his career was just taking off, and the 1st time I ever blew a harp into a mic was with him...what a thrill!!
The real story of why he played the guitar the way he did (with his fingers on top of the fretboard, not with his hand wrapped around it) was because when was learning to play, at the age of 3, he used to lay the guitar flat on his bed and stand by the bed reaching up to play it.
We've lost a real musical treasure who, outside of Canada, was not as well known as he deserved to be. If you ever watch the movie "Roadhouse" with Patrick Swayze, Jeff and his band play the house band in the bar that Swayze is hired to clean up.
Now he's playin' in the great jam band in the sky.
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