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Posted by: Marc_Maiden Mar 26 2009, 04:25 PM

seeing as im going slowly blind sice an accident i had a year ago, i thought it would be cool to learn some techniques from blind players so im ready when I can see where my hands are!! so if any of you have any suggestions, just post a link or a youtube here!

thanks!

Posted by: skennington Mar 26 2009, 04:29 PM

Blind or not, one of my all-time favorites.. Good luck man and I hate to hear the accident has left you like this.

Posted by: MickeM Mar 26 2009, 04:31 PM

What? Oh my...

Jeff Healey, Guitar.

Blind boys of Alabama has been active since 1930's (with different members), more of gospel than guitar but cool.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 26 2009, 06:24 PM

Sorry to hear about it man, had no idea. I hope it will turn out OK for you, I really do.

There are tons of old school bluesmen who were blind, but produced songs that influenced the music of today greatly.

Posted by: AlexLion Mar 26 2009, 07:07 PM

Really sorry to hear that, maybe you can find some sight recovering professionals? And you better don`t think about that and especcialy agree with that you might go blind, because it makes things much worse. Situations without proper exit didn`t exist!
And speaking about guitarists, i knew only Willie Johnson, which Ivan already mentioned..

Posted by: Andrew6 Mar 26 2009, 07:36 PM

Jeff Healey was amazing! Too bad he passed recently

Posted by: Marc_Maiden Mar 26 2009, 08:00 PM

thanks for the suggestions guys!

id like to think ill get my vision back, but i loss the site in one eye due to a freak accident a year ago, and the strain i have on the other is starting to show, but who knows whatll happen

i have a while to get so good at the guitar, i wont need eyes to do anything!

Posted by: Sensible Jones Mar 26 2009, 09:44 PM

Really sorry to hear that dude!!!!

Posted by: sted Mar 26 2009, 10:31 PM

sorry to hear that man, there are some great examples here that I cant really add to, but Jeff Healey was a monster blues player and an actor as well!! Hes about the best I can think of.

EDIT: Fird "Snooks" Eaglin as well!!