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Let the Grieving Process Begin: Pink Floyd's Inflatable Pig Found Dead

by Randall Roberts

April 29, 2008 3:19 PM

It's a hard time for everyone, I know. But we have to get through this together.

The LA Weekly would like to open the comments section so you, the reader, can share your thoughts and remembrances on Roger Waters' and Pink Floyd's inflatable pig, dead, we're assuming, as a result of exploding.

The pig, in happier times, floating above the Hollywood Bowl

The Zapruder Film of Coachella 2008: last known image of The Pig before it blowed up.

But it's time to start asking some hard questions. In whose charge was the pig? Had Waters and his production team ever combined the inflatable pig with a big explosion before? Was the Coachella crowd in any danger? What if the fire had burned through the vinyl pig? Could it have exploded above the crowd, sending searing hot vinyl pig carcass onto the fans below??? WTF???

Any theories? Have you seen a Roger Waters or Pink Floyd show where they did both pig and fire simultaneously? How did it make you feel? Should there be an investigation? Or should we just be thankful that we lived in the same moment in history as the pig?

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I'll go first.

I was there. I saw the pig before the show backstage. Waters had spray-painted a pro-Obama message on it, which seemed to me a questionable decision. Writing "Obama" on the underside of a pig would in some countries seem to be a great insult. I mean, what even was Waters trying to say?

I saw the pig float away and I wondered to myself (thinking it was an intentional act), "Hmm, I guess it's biodegradable or something." Why would Waters let loose a pig? Why, exactly, was there a pig there in the first place?

Posted on April 29, 2008 4:08 PM by Randall

by Randall Roberts

April 29, 2008 3:19 PM

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