{"id":3519,"date":"2013-09-04T05:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/04\/former-guns-n-roses-drummer-files-to-japan-to-protest-against-dolphin-hunt\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T05:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:57:38","slug":"former-guns-n-roses-drummer-files-to-japan-to-protest-against-dolphin-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/09\/04\/former-guns-n-roses-drummer-files-to-japan-to-protest-against-dolphin-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Guns N&#8217; Roses drummer files to Japan to protest against dolphin hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3d\/Matt_Sorum_2012.jpg\/220px-Matt_Sorum_2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"103\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Matt Sorum is currently holed up in a small fishing village protesting against its annual dolphin hunt. Former Guns N&#8217; Roses drummer Matt Sorum has flown to Japan to join a protest against the annual dolphin hunt held in a small fishing village. Sorum arrived in the village of Taiji on Sunday (September 1), the day of the hunt, during which dolphins are rounded up into a cove before being speared by local fishermen for their meat. The Taiji hunt was the subject on an Oscar-winning 2009 documentary film called The Cove.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Billboard shortly after watching the hunt, Sorum said: &#8220;Like a bad nightmare, I&#8217;m watching it almost like a twilight zone, surreal, looking into my eyes in complete disbelief \u2013 what&#8217;s going on in front of me.&#8221; He has also tweeted extensively about the hunt in recent days, including this message from yesterday (September 2):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is tragic , dolphins are stressed and one is drowning in the net. Underwater there are screams @Dolphin_Project pic.twitter.com\/WRVThfmMNt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorum served as Guns N&#8217; Roses&#8217; drummer for seven years from 1990-7 and also played alongside Slash and Duff McKagan in supergroup Velvet Revolver. He now has a new band called Kings Of Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Sorum also revealed that he is planning to organise a rock concert in Tokyo with a &#8220;celebrate the dolphin&#8221; theme. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring a bunch of heavyweights, big rock stars. The main thing is to get the Japanese kids,&#8221; he explained. However, the Japanese fishermen insist that the annual hunt is a village tradition and call out Western critics who eat other types of meat for being hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Sorum is currently holed up in a small fishing village protesting against its annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}