The Making of 'Pipes of Peace'

Pipes of Peace [subtitled 'For God's Sake'] is a musical documentary of the 'troubles' that have held up the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the people of the partitioned six counties of Northern Ireland for 30 years. Includes actual background audio of the BBC describing various sectarian terrorism in the British province...

Story Behind the Song:

The music was written in a loft, on a baby grand on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe [While performing at Squaw Valley] in the week up to Christmas, 1983. It was originally recorded in late summer 1986 at Central Recording Studios, Bower View, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland in an analogue environment in two sessions. The first session for piano, drums, bass and the BBC audio background, and for the subsequent session, I found an Uilleann piper [representing Catholicism] and a Scottish piper [representing Protestantism] for the symbolic representation of the two religious traditions heard in the track.

For the remix completed 07/06/02, I re-recorded some drum parts, added dulcimer, harp, tin whistle and church bells [for invective] which adds considerably to the dynamic. I never considered the composition in the context that it exists now, and it is my fondest hope, that the senseless civil war in Northern Ireland can have an ultimate resolution...

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[PrettyLittleHead]

WOW, this is an amazing piece of music!! I thought I was seeing Paul McCartney's making of his 1983 album Pipes of Peace and got this. I thought I was looking at McCartney on the drum track! WHERE IS THIS PIECE OF MUSIC AND WHAT IS THIS, IT IS AMAZING!!!

[robertmac62]

that is over hundreds of years ago and also presbyterians were treated bad too. thats why they were the original ira

[robertmac62]

sorry mate you have been sold a pup. it isnt british in the nth of ireland but irish british. it is irish who are getting murdered by so called freedom fighters. do you know that most of the republicans live just a few miles from sth ireland. if they were being treated so bad in the nth dont you think they would move those few miles. but hope the peace last but it wont. another generation of young catholics will be reared to free ireland. its all europe now. no border to fight over

[PeaceiHatetheword]

@TRST1313 We will Never Leave, the UK is Our Country you fool why don't you deface you own flag by ripping the Orange off it!! you idiot thats how much sense you make refusing to respect their wishes. Yet your flag represents a truce you have no interest in keeping.

[grumbern]

Yeeha, let's all go to war!

Moron!

[TRST1313]

The british need to leave irland in its entirety to soveirgn peace the age of colonialism is over and that is coming from an american and i also believe that the scotish should fight with the irish as they so many time had

[looneybineastman]

Pipes of Peace - Baby!

[johnnyards]

The ira are a marxist terrorist organisation with close links to the terrorist FARC in Columbia. They traded their knowledge in the manufacturing of bombs with farc in exchange for £25million ($50million). If you want to see young children die through drugs across the world, or to fund terrorists, please keep supporting the ira.

[lfaegre]

You obviously did not read the Biography. I married into a Nationalist family in the Republic and have lived there 'among them' for almost 25 years...

[chaoslupine]

what a suprise your US. saw that coming wont even bother to try to say my own ideas, you will never understand them, you have not lived it so you could never be shown what it was like