{"id":5532,"date":"2014-07-07T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2014-07-07T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T12:33:44","slug":"surrogate-bands-contest-winner-lucas-ballesteros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2014\/07\/surrogate-bands-contest-winner-lucas-ballesteros\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate Bands contest winner: Lucas Ballesteros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lucas Ballesteros<\/strong> of Buenos Aires, Argentina, won our 4th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Ballesteros took top prize with his one-man-band rendition of Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played and recorded as a solo-experimental-hobby-independent artist since I can remember,&#8221; Lucas tells us. &#8220;Currently I&#8217;m playing and recording my own stuff in my home studio. I finished an album recorded in my home studio from 2003 to 2008, still unreleased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s time to go pro and get out of the bedroom studio,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>Ballesteros receives $200 in Pink Floyd merchandise from <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.pinkfloyd.com\">The Official Web Store of Pink Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second prize, selected from all entries by random draw, went to <strong>Don Horn<\/strong> of band <strong>AITX<\/strong> of Ontario, Ohio. Don gets a Pink Floyd periodical package including four magazines featuring the group or its members on the cover: Uncut (November 2013), Guitar World (Holiday 2013), Record Collector (August 2013) and Classic Rock presents Prog (September 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who entered the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Ballesteros of Buenos Aires, Argentina, won our 4th Annual Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest. Ballesteros took top prize with his one-man-band rendition of Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Echoes.&#8221; &#8220;I played and recorded as a solo-experimental-hobby-independent artist since I can remember,&#8221; Lucas tells us. &#8220;Currently I&#8217;m playing and recording my own stuff in my home studio. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","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=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}