{"id":1315,"date":"2010-06-07T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2010-06-07T06:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:23:51","slug":"roger-waters-releases-we-shall-overcome-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/06\/roger-waters-releases-we-shall-overcome-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters releases &#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd co-founder <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> has made available a new recording of the protest song &#8220;We Shall Overcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by <strong>G.E. Smith<\/strong>, with drums by <strong>Thor Jonsson<\/strong>, neither of whom are seen in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. &#8220;The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of &#8216;We Shall Overcome.&#8217; It seems appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vnMMHepfYVc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vnMMHepfYVc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song &#8220;We Shall Overcome.&#8221; Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza. Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-recordings","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}