Roger Waters’ pig…
has been found.
The remains of Roger Waters’ political pig have been found in California – three days after the animal flew away during the Coachella Festival.
Pieces of the inflatable pig, which featured a pro-Barack Obama message, were found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta.
It’s understood that the $10,000 reward put forward by organisers will be split between the two households.
The pig, which was the width of two double-decker buses, escaped from its ties as Waters played Pink Floyd’s ‘Pigs’ during his headlining performance at the festival (April 27th).
In addition to the financial reward, the families will receive four life long tickets to the Coachella Festival.
According to Wikipedia the pigs have a history of escaping.
The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day’s photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
On the second day, the marksman wasn’t present because no one had told him to return, and the pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind (gaining a lot of press coverage). It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at forty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night….
The pig also went astray whilst suspended from the ceiling of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1977[citation needed]. It ran back and forth over the audience during the performance on some sort of track, and at the end of its travels across the arena struck a fan in the head as it turned to go back toward the stage….
In the two post-Waters tours, the pig was used many times; but two of the pigs were lost, both during the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tours:
* One 12-meter pig being used at a record company function on January 28, 1988 broke free before a concert[citation needed].
* On May 6, 1988 one of the band’s larger pigs descended towards the crowd and was ripped apart by fans during a concert in Foxboro, Massachusetts
Somebody should stop Waters and Pink Floyd. Clearly these pigs are not happy with being used as political footballs (pigskins), and forced in to performance. Where is PETA on this?
Where is the outrage?
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Tags: balloon, Barack Obama, coachella festival, PETA, Pigs, Pink Floyd, roger waters
Sans Direction wrote,
The pig is Roger Waters’. His copyright. So they can’t use a pig.
So Pink Floyd, which is David Gilmour, his band, and Rick Wright and Nick Mason’s plugs not quite reaching the board (according to a guy who roadied for them that I met working a Bangles show), use a hog. Look at it, and you’ll realize that their balloon is a vehicle you can’t drive in Florida. B)
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Pribek wrote,
“Rick Wright and Nick Mason’s plugs not quite reaching the board”!!!!
LMAO>>>I just spit what was left of my coffee all over the keyboard.
Takes balls to say something like that.
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 10:28 am
dragonlady474 wrote,
I despise Pink Floyd. The only album I’ll listen to by them is Dark Side of the Moon. Their music is boring, boring, my God it’s BORING. If I was the pig, I’d be running away too.
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Pribek wrote,
C’mon, dragonlady, quit sugarcoating it! Tell us how you really feel.
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 11:10 am
dragonlady474 wrote,
Well you know, I try to be civil. lol
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Pribek wrote,
feel free to rant, nobody’s watching
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Sans Direction wrote,
Personally, I like Pink Floyd. Not as much as a good friend who has everything by them and very little by anyone else, and whose wife somehow lets him have this poster in his dining room. But I like ‘em. But I get the “Boring Boring Bo-RING!” comments.
PF Music comes in three primary creative elements: Syd, Roger and David. Syd music has three themes: “I rather like rock and volume”, “I rather like drugs” and “The sea isn’t green and I love the Queen and what exactly is a dream?” Roger music has three themes: “My daddy died in WWII and I’m still put off”, “The Who’s rock opera ended up with a rebirth of fascism so mine will too” and “Syd rather liked drugs”. David music has three themes: “If we diverge too far from the sound of Roger, it’ll be beyond my ability to play”, “If we diverge too far from the sound of Roger, the gravy train will derail” and “Syd rather liked drugs”.
Someone needs to give David Gilmour a CD of African rhythms and maybe a gold watch. Someone needs to give Roger Waters a puppy. And, sadly, Syd Barrett is beyond receiving anymore.
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Pribek wrote,
Sans is En Fuego today. You can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.
Link | April 30th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Pink Floyd — isn’t that the barber of Mayberry… who later had a stroke? When was it he played in a band again? And I swear no one talked about drugs in or around Mayberry and Aunt Bea. Ron Howard grew up to be a really good movie maker… and bald, but I sure don’t remember Dave, Roger or Syd. (Roger Rabbit and Syd from ToyStory?)
I feel so uninformed, dang it, but with a little help from you, my friends, I might get The Final Cut off The Wall, pending you divulge a Saucer Full of Secrets. A Momentary Lapse of Reason left my Atom Heart Mother temporarily Obscured by the clouds, so we both followed the Piper to the gates of Dawn. Wish You Were Here on the Dark Side of the Moon !!
En Fuego, Sans… muy en fuego!!!
Con mucho Carino
el Patrizio
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Link | April 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm