{"id":3791,"date":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/roger-waters-talks-about-the-new-album-and-his-memories-from-the-pink-floyd-concerts\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:00:00","slug":"roger-waters-talks-about-the-new-album-and-his-memories-from-the-pink-floyd-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/roger-waters-talks-about-the-new-album-and-his-memories-from-the-pink-floyd-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters talks about the new album and his memories from the Pink Floyd concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3b\/Roger_Waters_18_May_2008_London_O2_Arena.jpg\/220px-Roger_Waters_18_May_2008_London_O2_Arena.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"355\" \/><br \/>The 80-minute discussion&#8217;s biggest music revelation came when Waters  disclosed that he is working on a new album &#8212; his first in 20 years.  His succinct synopsis of the album&#8217;s storyline included the character  voices of a six-year-old Northern Irish boy and his grandfather who  comforts the child after he&#8217;s had violent nightmares which include  children being killed.  <!--more-->  The grandfather &#8220;enters into a covenant with the  boy that he will take him on a quest to find an answer to his question,  &#8216;Why are we killing the children?&#8217; And that&#8217;s what the record&#8217;s about,&#8221;  Waters explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The musician fondly recalled Pink Floyd&#8217;s first U.S. gig in 1967, at  San Francisco&#8217;s Winterland, which featured the group on the bottom of a  bill with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Richie Havens and  Headlights. He laughingly recalled buying a pint of Southern Comfort,  having a slug before going onstage only to return after the set to find  Janis Joplin had drank the entire bottle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Waters spoke fondly of Live 8&#8217;s Pink Floyd reunion show before  Richard Wright died, which he called a &#8220;very important moment.&#8221; While he  as also gratified by the band&#8217;s historic Berlin Wall show in 1990, &#8220;he  lost a fortune&#8221; because he had financed the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 80-minute discussion&#8217;s biggest music revelation came when Waters disclosed that he is working on&#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-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","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=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}