Durante l'esibizione di Roger Waters al Coachella Festival in California, il mitico maiale gonfiabile gigante s'era sganciato dai cavi ed era volato via, proprio al termine dell'esecuzione del brano "Pigs (three different ones)". Gli organizzatori avevano promesso una "taglia" di 10.000 dollari più dei biglietti a vita per il festival, per chi l'avesse riportato. Il Pink Floyd Pig , che risale ai tempi dell'album Animals dove è raffigurato sulla copertina del disco, ha accompagnato per molti anni i concerti dei Pink Floyd e di Wartes solista. Più di dieci [...]
The message of Pink Floyd's dirigible pig, one of greed, corruption, and other not beautiful things, would spoil any name written on it considering the symbolic nature of such a tainted canvas. On the other hand, big, bold army stencil lettering spelling O-B-A-M-A, with strategic underbelly placement for clear viewing seems like an act of campaigning with exact target specificity considering 50,000 (?) people could see it. Don't ever say Mr. Roger Waters has issues with communicating or he'll go The Wall on your ass. Begs the question, was it a [...]
the pig, pre-escape ( more by Ryan Muir ) Anonymous wasn't kidding! As you can see in the video at the end of this post, Roger Waters' pig got loose at Coachella on Sunday , and just zig zagged away, never to be seen again. Although it sounds like a practical joke, I am pretty sure this press release I just got is real.... COACHELLA ORGANIZERS OFFER $10, 000 REWARD AND FOUR FESTIVAL TICKETS FOR LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF THE INFLATABLE PIG [...]