{"id":9446,"date":"2019-08-20T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:39:54","slug":"nick-mason-to-receive-prog-god-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2019\/08\/nick-mason-to-receive-prog-god-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason to receive Prog God award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prog <\/strong>magazine will present Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> with its Prog God award at the 2019 Progressive Music Awards next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mason, 75, has been touring the world with his band <strong>Saucerful of Secrets<\/strong>, playing pre-&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; Floyd to sold-out crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m all in favor of recognition for drummers \u2014 particularly when it\u2019s me \u2014 so I\u2019m really delighted to be recognized as Prog God,\u201d Mason tells Prog editors. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that it was over 50 years ago that the music we know as prog rock was born, and it\u2019s still being celebrated, played and developed in the 21st century. Long may it continue!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards will take place Sept. 12 at London&#8217;s Underglobe Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past winners of the Prog God award include <strong>Steve Howe<\/strong>, <strong>Carl Palmer<\/strong>, <strong>Jon Anderson<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prog magazine will present Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nick Mason with its Prog God award at the 2019 Progressive Music Awards next month. Mason, 75, has been touring the world with his band Saucerful of Secrets, playing pre-&#8220;Dark Side&#8221; Floyd to sold-out crowds. \u201cI\u2019m all in favor of recognition for drummers \u2014 particularly when [&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-9446","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\/9446","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=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}