A fun filled frolic with Jesse Thomas & The Gin Mill Kings at Two Boots on 2nd Street @ 7th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, Saturday, March 5th, 2011.  Good crowd, good gig.  Good food too!

Give it up or turn it loose

"Let It Burn" from Brian Bellew Band's "Crusher".  We worked on this record for a long time.  I think the cut with the most commercial potential is "Did Not Know Her Name" but this is my favorite one to play.  The guitar/drum/bass tracks were done at Dave Derr's studio, the organ, vocals, extra guitars and mixing were done at Watermusic.  It has been my pleasure to play keys for Brian since 1994.  

Let It Burn

Recorded at the Schooley's Mountain estate/retreat of the Palmer's Elixer folks.  Wish we'd found a stash of that...
Original music by Don Palmer.  Played by Don, John Keim, Frank Marrapodi, John Gatuso and Matt Jardin

Starstruck - summer 1978 - 4 track Teac reel to reel

This is a nifty cover Jesse Thomas & the Gin Mill Kings do.  We'll be at the Elysian Cafe
in Hoboken, NJ  on Saturday, 11-12-11.

21 I'll Take You There

This is Tom Vincent and the Very Geri Hoboken Holiday House Band's take on the James Taylor version of Jingle Bells.  This year's show will be at Maxwell's in Hoboken Sunday, 12-18-11.

Be there for the coolest yulefest ever!

01 Jingle Bells

You want to have a good band?  Get guys that play better than you to cushion your fall...
Bernard Grubman, Chad Elroy and Phil Ippolito provided a groovy bed of soul for me to roll around in.  This was live at the Elysian Cafe, Hoboken, Saturday, April 21, 2010.  I had fun, I think the audience and staff had fun, I hope the guys in the John Keim Band had at least half as much fun as I did!   Thanks gentlemen!!!!

In Crowd into Can't You See

John Keim Band - opener at Elysian, 4-21-12, first time the band had played together.  Damn, these guys were great - I provided clam sauce here but fun nonetheless......

Watermelon Man devolves into Mercy Mercy

A solo piano medley of sorts, We Shall Overcome/America the Beautiful/Puff the Magic Dragon/King of the Road - just me and my Korg Triton Studio 88

Soulful Americana Cocktail Piano

Have keyboards, will travel - member of Brian Bellew Band since 1994, Jesse Thomas & the Gin Mill Kings since 2010.  Delighted to be honorary Love Commando for Hoboken Holiday Banding Together and member of the house band for annual MLK Sing Out for Justice concerts in Hoboken.

John Keim

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