{"id":166,"date":"2009-09-08T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-09-08T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:56:11","slug":"nick-mason-wont-rule-out-floyd-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/09\/nick-mason-wont-rule-out-floyd-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason won&#8217;t rule out Floyd video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> has told the BBC his band might consider a Floyd-themed video game along the lines of Guitar Hero or Rock Band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone&#8217;s looking at new ways of selling the music because the business of selling records has almost disappeared,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all still interested in the catalog and trying to make the most of it, re-mastering when necessary, and looking at other things that we could do with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments came on the eve of the release of &#8220;The Beatles: Rock Band&#8221; by <strong>MTV Games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mason and <strong>Bill Wyman<\/strong> (<strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong>) took the opportunity to question those games&#8217; effect on budding musicians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It irritates me having watched my kids do it,&#8221; Mason said. &#8220;If they spent as much time practicing the guitar as learning how to press the buttons they&#8217;d be damn good by now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wyman was more direct: &#8220;It encourages kids not to learn, that&#8217;s the trouble. &#8230; It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has told the BBC his band might consider a Floyd-themed video game along the lines of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s looking at new ways of selling the music because the business of selling records has almost disappeared,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re all still interested in the catalog and trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}