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The late Jeff Healey was a Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist. If you didn't know him kids, checkout the songs "Angel eyes" and "Stuck in the middle with you". For even more cool Jeff Healey moments, checkout the movie roadhouse. Jeff not only played the guitar damn well, he did so blind.
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Jeff's guitar rig.
 Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend
Note: Big thanks to RQ, for all the insider information on what gear Jeff used in his rig!!!!
Guitars
- A ’30s or ’40s Gibson L-12 arch top guitar (Jazz Wizards)
- Japanese Squier Strats with red single-coil Evans pickups
- Jackson doubleneck (with joined headstocks)
- custom-built US strats with 3 Evans (and later, Seymour Duncan SH-5) humbucking pickups in them and wiring that allowed him to coil-tap individual pickups one at a time.
 
Amps
- Fender Protube Twins (or the BF reissue Twins, when he was on the road and couldn't find a Protube)
- Marshall JCM 800
 
- Matchless Super Chief
- Fender Pro Junior (Jazz Wizards)
- Fender Twin Reverb amplifier
 
Effects Pedals
- Boss BD-2 Bluesdriver Pedal
 
- Boss OD-1 Overdrive pedal
- Boss Chorus Ensemble Pedal
- Boss Compressor/Sustainer
- Boss Digital Delay
- Boss GE-7
- Vox Wah
Strings
- DR strings gauged .012, .015, .022, .032, .042, and .052. (Jazz Wizards)
- DR Strings Tite-Fit Jeff Healey Medium Electric Guitar Strings
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Comments
Never knew him to own or play an ibanez or 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.
He also had a Jackson doubleneck (with joined headstocks), which he used onstage before he added a second guitarist to the touring act. Jeff gave me that guitar about a year before his death. Maybe some of the people who think they saw him play Ibanez are thinking of the Jackson.
Later on Jeff had a few custom-built US strats with 3 Evans (and later, Seymour Duncan SH-5) humbucking pickups in them and some pretty wild wiring that allowed him to coil-tap individual pickups one at a time.
Amp and effect wise, in his heyday he played thru DOD effects (which he endorsed) into a Marshall 800, and (briefly) a Matchless Super Chief.
Later he switched to BOSS pedals (bluesdriver compressor/sustainer, chorus ensemble, digital delay, GE-7) and Vox wah, into Fender Protube Twins (or the BF reissue Twins, when he was on the road and couldn't find a Protube). He always played extremely loud onstage and set up his amp loud and clean; beat the hell out of the input stage by maxing the gain on all his pedals. Jeff preferred the protube twins over the reissues, partly because they sounded better, but also because they didn't blow up as often.
With the Jazz Wizards he played a 1940s L12 straight into a Fender Pro Junior.
If you ever got to jam at his place in Toronto (Healy's) or see him there, you know he was always searching and the equipment showed it. If you reall noticed, you would see the marshall/ fenders of old that we all use as the building blocks. I dont know much of the jazz equip, but like all real guitar players he used the volume knob to pronounce what he was projecting or not.
Hope this is inspiring! Take care all!
Chris
i think in the 80's he endorsed digitech pedals