{"id":9942,"date":"2020-05-19T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:31:13","slug":"roger-waters-calls-for-access-to-pink-floyd-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2020\/05\/roger-waters-calls-for-access-to-pink-floyd-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters calls for access to Pink Floyd social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted to Facebook today, <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> makes a case for equal access to the websites and social media accounts operated under the\u00a0Floyd name.<\/p>\n<p>During the 5-minute video, Waters thanks fans for their comments and enthusiasm for a new video of &#8220;Mother&#8221; he recorded Zoom-style with a number of backing musicians and posted online Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He explains none of his work outside of Pink Floyd, which he left in the mid-&#8217;80s, is promoted through the official Floyd channels online, since &#8220;David (Gilmour) thinks he owns it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters goes on to point out Gilmour has tied promotional efforts for his wife and writing partner <strong>Polly Samson<\/strong>&#8216;s new novel to the band&#8217;s social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is wrong. We should rise up,&#8221; he says, &#8220;or just change the name of the band to Spinal Tap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters has postponed to 2021 his &#8220;This is Not a Drill&#8221; North American tour, which was originally scheduled to open July 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Frogerwaters%2Fvideos%2F3628896033794215%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted to Facebook today, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters makes a case for equal access to the websites and social media accounts operated under the\u00a0Floyd name. During the 5-minute video, Waters thanks fans for their comments and enthusiasm for a new video of &#8220;Mother&#8221; he recorded Zoom-style with a number of backing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-gilmour","category-personnel","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","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=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}