Roger Waters Lost His Pig
Keep your eyes on the skies people. A reward is up for the person who finds the inflatable pig that floated away during the closing performance at the Coachella festival. What’s in it for the finder of the pig?… $10,000 and 4 tickets to Coachella for life. Probably get to meet Roger too. I wonder what it’s worth if the finder holds out for a while.
Tags: Coachella, Pig, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters
April 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
That is great stuff! i’d love 4 coachella tis for life!
Surely the pig will get lonely and come back home sooner or later right?
April 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
If you didn’t care what happened to me,
And I didn’t care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Maybe the pig stopped caring about roger and just decided to zig zag away?
April 29th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I wonder what the pig symbolizes? Knowing PF it is probably a metaphor of the greed by “the man”. Now that this pig has finally escaped, what does this say about Roger Waters?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
The pig first appeared on the cover of “Animals”. A concept album that addresses the flaws of Capitalism. Many different things, or ideas, are each given a metaphoric animal. So, yes, it is technically about the “the Man’s greed”.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Wasn’t it influenced by George Orwell’s Animal House?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
FYI: animals=soitgoes fav pink floyd album
April 29th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Doh- Animal Farm…. i knew that after drinking a few beers though my mind was more on animal house … not farm
April 30th, 2008 at 7:27 am
5 comments by SoItGoes in one post = RECORD
April 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Might as well set the bar high.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Pig Found here are details from the article:
First, the find. Susan Stoltz, a resident of La Quinta, one of the towns adjoining the festival grounds in the California desert, got up Monday morning and decided to take a jog. She put on—irony alert!—a Pink Floyd T-shirt. It’s not that she’s a fan; she bought it a couple of years ago for a 1970s theme party. In the driveway, she found a “huge pile of vinyl and latex,” which she and her husband stuffed into the trash. Tuesday morning, she went out to her driveway and found another surprise—the front page of the local Desert Sun newspaper, with a story about the wayward pig and the $10,000 finder’s fee. (Waters, a left-wing Brit, has used the floating pig as a symbol for right-wing forces since he first started setting ‘em aloft during Pink Floyd shows in the late ‘70s.) Suddenly, Stoltz realized what she had, and so did a neighbor, who’d found the other half of the pig. They e-mailed the address listed in the story: lostpig@coachella.com. “I told them it it was more like pulled pork now—it was pretty shredded—but they said they’d be right out to get it,” Stoltz says.