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Peace Will Prevail


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SmokeyVW

 Genre: Folk-Rock

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album: 32 Degrees of Freedom
track 1: 0:20 Fanfare
track 2: 4:16 Peace Will Prevail
track 3: 7:12 I'll Be A Free Bird
track 4: 7:48 The Apathy Song
track 5: 2:42 This Old Cup
track 6: 3:33 Horizon
track 7: 7:22 All Natural Dating Service
track 8: 4:48 Vernal Equinox
track 9: 6:40 My Poison
track 10: 4:36 Say Goodbye
track 11: 2:10 Lawn Service Choir
track 12: 5:48 Supernova
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Song Description

another fantasy live performance

for MacJams Woodstock 08
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Lyrics
Peace Will Prevail

i'm flying away
into your arms
into the sun

we open our eyes
here at the farm
we see we are one

this is a new day
the sounding alarm
that peace has begun

we're reaching the skies
the world will disarm
we're gonna be one


peace will prevail
don't you know that
peace will prevail


(c) 2008 Bill Grundmann
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Comments: 51
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Plays: 80
Downloads: 56
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Uploaded: Mar 19, 2008 - 07:58:17 PM
Last Updated: Sep 13, 2008 - 11:18:39 AM Last Played: Oct 25, 2009 - 03:01:32 PM
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Comments
chipan said 617 days ago (March 19th, 2008)
Encore
I love the guitar playing. This is a very cool song. It really feels like a big concert venue. Nice job!

chip
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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well, actually, no guitar was touched in any way on this. i spent as much time on the crowd loops, handclapping, and reverb as i spent on singing and sequencing everything else!

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davisamerica said 617 days ago (March 19th, 2008)
right then bill
wow dude .. wow
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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outta sight

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said 617 days ago (March 19th, 2008)
Very nice.


enjoyable listen.
I love the pic as well. Cheers.

Peace Dee



SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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i had fun drawing that heart/peace image. i'm not sure i ever saw one anywhere, it's all fuzzy now.

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bud said 617 days ago (March 19th, 2008)
Up with people!
Hats off to utopian bliss and sweet sweet songs like this one. Great production Bill - the atmosphere is great and your vocals sound really cool. I like the hand claps too.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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i had totally forgotten about Up With People. i saw them in high school, but never really knew what they were all about. wikipedia just dispelled that fog...

those handclaps are totally synthesized - using GarageBand only. honest!

thanks
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Feter said 617 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Peace Will Prevail
just Incredible ...I just loved this show ..
what a genious work is this .the singin is
so impressive beside the insteruments you
arranged so well ..wo man far out Peace will
prevail ...!!!
SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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thanks for inspiring me!

this festival is great - and no mud this time
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davisamerica said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
lo bill ....
this just made me grin fro the opening chords ... and it just got better and better after that! love the hand clapping..... just had to repost some more notes after 1st listen ... genius VW ... wonderful, incense soaked genius... i was in the front row screaming for more!
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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i don't think it was incense
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davisamerica said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
oh yeah.....
downloaded ..... thanks smokey .. u do indeed rock!
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davisamerica said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
ok one lat thing
This is the Festival Theme Song I do believe ...!!
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Ibstrat said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
This
is great!How did you get the guitar to sound like that?Nice mix-I like the clap-along crowd.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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the guitar is the Bluesy Acoustic Guitar synth. I started from a few loops and changed around the notes a lot. but i kept the rhythm and expression mostly. i seriously doubt it could actually be played as it is now (too many notes at once).

more about the clap-along in another reply...

thanks
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said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
great stuff here....
Peace.... it is in this lovely 'live' performance!
SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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thank you very much - i appreciate it
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magnatone said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Peace Will Prevail
Yeah - how DO you get the guitar to sound like that? It's so convincingly an actually-played guitar. This song is just plain wonderful. Love the audience participation clapping - and very impressed with how(ever) you pulled that off. Great job Smokey!
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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i think the AU Matrix reverb helps a lot overall.

the clapping comes from Classic Hip Hop Remix drum kit. i used two clap sounds plus some extra reverb on them. plus i threw them off rhythm here and there as if the audience lost the beat occasionally (but i on a few more listens i think i over did that!)

thanks!
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lavalamp said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Good crowd
Dig the live feel regarding the singing. I can't believe the guitars are not played and loops.
Good song.
LL
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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it's all fake.

but the feelings behind it are very real.

thanks!
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WeAreNotPerfekt said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
:-)

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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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:-) :-)

peace and love and thanks
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Mcboy said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
peace n love
peace.......
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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thanks for listening friend!
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Skean said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Wow
Great sounds in this one so cool done my friend.
Love it... Peace
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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and PEACE to you too - in every way

thank you
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saymme said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
: ) Peace/ FRED (in sweedish)
ThankYou for this BEAUTY...! tx for dl PEACE WILL PREVAIL. . . : )
A W E S O M E
perhaps You like this. it was in the wrong genre so i was just lucky to stumble on it! also very meditative
http://www.macjams.com/song/39459
SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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well i'm glad you found this song. check out ALL the woodstock08 tunes - they are all worth a listen. thanks for visiting
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michael2 said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
wow
i am totally blown away by this. it's like hearing Neil Young when it starts, and then the singing comes in and MAN THAT IS GREAT. i love your vocal songs. i could see the flaming lips doing this one now. really great job.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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i'm glad you liked this. i guess i put a bit of my essence into this one. (you know, the labor-of-love trip)

thanks
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dajama said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Very cool
Love the arrangement, and the use of the crowd noises adds great ambience. Good vocal, and those handclaps are terrific. Nicely done. Peace.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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thank you - i spent a bit of time crafting the crowd.

peace to you as well!
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sammy said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
Right
Maybe 2009 will be like 1969?

Maybe the war will end?

Maybe we will begin to make sense?

SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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let's hope only the peaceful aspects of social unrest replay themselves. we don't need riots or cities burning again.

thanks for listening
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Vic Holman said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
peace and love
is all you need. cool sing along type of tune.

let's see it's not Sha Na Na or Ten Years after. Kinda like it's a Beautiful Day, remember them?

cool entry! Totally mid late 60's.
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bud said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
It's a Beautiful Day
Marrying Maiden - one of my faves.

Smokey - this is truly great - I'll keep coming back - dig the new picture.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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the beads in that pic are - my beads - i wore those continuously for a number of years (as in never took em off ever).

they are my identity, literally, in code anyway..., from those years gone by. i still keep them, and trotted them out to compose this little picture.
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SmokeyVW said 616 days ago (March 20th, 2008)
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Vic:
i forgot about Beautiful Day - i'll have to refresh my memory...

thanks - exactly what i was going for!

thank you sir
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SmokeyVW said 615 days ago (March 21st, 2008)
white bird
white bird must fly or she will die

i never knew who did that song...

do you know their bassist Mitchell Holman?
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Vic Holman said 615 days ago (March 21st, 2008)
nope
had no idea about the bass player. but who knows, i know i have lost relatives somewhere
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egobandit said 613 days ago (March 23rd, 2008)
sing out loud
Great song enjoyed it alot! HAs a real in the crowd feel. Reminds me of yes for some reason. Excellent!
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SmokeyVW said 613 days ago (March 23rd, 2008)
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egobandit! you're back!

glad you noticed the crowd - i spent a little time on that.

Yes!? i have always admired their work, but how that could be reflected here, i have not a clue.

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egobandit said 613 days ago (March 23rd, 2008)
Yes
when I was young I wore out Yesssongs and the live parts remind me of this just in the atmosphere feel of it
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said 612 days ago (March 24th, 2008)
Dreamy Afternoon
...in the sun, melting into the crowd and becoming a White Admiral butterfly. I'm floating over the crowd, landing briefly on a girl's hair before taking flight and drifting around over a sea of gently swaying people. Everything is colour, everything is music, and life feels so sweet to be this light and this free...

I love the crowd effects here - they're timed and sequenced just right. And you're quite right about the claps working well if you 'off' the timing a hair - I did that will 'Dance Ye Scurvy Swabs' earlier and was pleasantly surprised at how it 'humanizes' the sound. And I have to add my amazement about the guitar.

Time to fly some more. Tuen up the music and drift away...
SmokeyVW said 611 days ago (March 25th, 2008)

you are so with it man. i was digging that scene too. my chick told me that when you look up at the sky you are seeing half of the entire universe. heavy. very heavy. but the mud was a bummer. we might of split except the all good vibes made us stay.

but seriously - i spent a lot of time on the crowd sounds - glad you noticed that.

thank you sir
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timothy devine said 611 days ago (March 25th, 2008)
hey vw
having fun with this are you?

Great tune. Love It.
Peace



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SmokeyVW said 611 days ago (March 25th, 2008)

yeah, you betcha - this was fun with a capital F. i was grinning most of the way.

thanks
peace

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make love not war


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Doadars Uncle said 604 days ago (April 1st, 2008)
Niiiice!
A proactive song! Hey, I'm an idealist! I really like this one! Nice guitar, too!

Doug
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SmokeyVW said 528 days ago (June 16th, 2008)
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it nice for me to discover that i still hold some idealistic beliefs myself.

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Eclectic, at best. I learned some music theory at school, and read a ton about it since. I've listened to lots of music over the years. I once played guitar in an actual garage band and actually got paid to play! Once. Although live performance is an... [see more]

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Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. In the original and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and Canada around the mid-1960s. The sound was epitomized by tight vocal

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