#john keane

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Song Review: Widespread Panic with John Keane - “Stop-Go” (Live, April 20, 2002)

With producer and frequent collaborator John Keane on board, Widespread Panic went full-bore into “Stop-Go.”

It was April 20, 2002, in North Carolina and professional video of the long-ago performance is now out to reinforce the power of the classic Panic lineup even on a song so clearly derived from the Grateful Dead’s “Fire on the Mountain.”

And though WSP sounds nothing like GD, the former adopted the ethos of the latter, as demonstrated on this 11-minute workout. There’s room between verses for Michael Houser’s famous lingering lead; JoJo Hermann’s mix of organ and piano; Dave School’s lumbering lead six-string bass; and Keane’s rock ‘n’ roll pedal steel.

But Panic isn’t strictly about solos. And when John Bell finishes his second round of vocals, ensemble playing brings the song home with a slow-rising flood of music that at the time was pure joy and decades later is a mix of melancholia and nostalgia.

Grade card: Widespread Panic with John Keane - “Stop-Go” (Live - 4/20/02) - A

4/28/25

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The post-democratic system he envisages should …provide hope of a moral reconstitution of society, which means a radical renewal of the relationship of human beings to what I have called the 'human order,' which no political order can replace. A new experience of being, a renewed rootedness in the universe, a newly grasped sense of higher responsibility, a newfound inner relationship to other people and to the human community-these factors clearly indicate the direction in which we must go.[3]: 283 

Václav Havel quoted in a book by John Keane in Wikipedia. Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts

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Vic Chesnutt - Is The Actor Happy? (1995)

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Road to Damascus - John Keane

Part of Postcards for Syria (2016), produced to commemorate the humanitarian crisis and in aid of the Red Cross Syria Appeal.

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"Outperformed by a resilient Chinese empire on multiple fronts, suffering mounting public suspicion and disrespect at various points on our planet, trapped in a deathly spiral of war mongering of its own making, those who run America, whether they admit it or not, are now active contributors to the long history of the decline and collapse of empires.

There are already clear signs of the likely overall pattern: while the United States under Trump will do everything it can to trim its global empire on its own rationally calculated ‘national interest’ terms, there’ll be many cartoonishly crazy happenings. Rather like the Ottoman and British empires, the world is going to witness a string of spits-and-splutters episodes of retreat, regrouping and revenge. The sudden collapse of the United States imperium is probably not on the cards; imperial decline may instead happen the Hemingway way, slowly at first, then suddenly. Only one thing’s certain: the coming crack-up of the empire will be protracted, disorderly, painful and nasty."

John Keane, Amerika: MAGA, China, Imperial Decline, Democracy, April 9, 2025.

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Song Review: Widespread Panic with John Keane - “Ribs and Whiskey” (Live, Oct. 29, 2006)

Widespread Panic was as band in transition as it pulled into Vegoose 2006.

Guitarist George McConnell was out. Jimmy Herring was in. And longtime WSP associate John Keane provided stability as Herring found his footing.

It is this evolving group that mixes the funk with the blues on “Ribs and Whiskey” on a just-released archival video shot Oct. 29, 2006. Keane plays electric slide to vocalist John Bell’s acoustic while Herring focuses on rhythm in a darkened corner of the stage near where JoJo Hermann adds clavinet to funk up Keane’s slippery blue notes.

Toss in WSP’s singular rhythm section and Bell’s story of accidentally spying a friend’s undressed female sibling and “Ribs and Whiskey” is a tasty morsel from a short-lived era in WSP history.

Grade card: Widespread Panic with John Keane - “Ribs and Whiskey” (Live - 10/29/06) - A-

5/15/24

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In this fast-paced and engaging book, Keane tells the story of societies across the ancient and modern eras struggling for self-government.

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