Bring back the pig!

Update: They found it!

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Considering that Pink Floyd is my favorite classic rock band the greatest classic rock band of all time (OK, besides Zeppelin), I can't resist posting this.

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INDIO, Calif. — Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, features the word "Obama" and it has lost its way in the California desert.

Organizers for the Coachella music festival announced that the gigantic blowup swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday, was still out there - and they want it back.

The festival is offering a $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life for the safe return of the pig, according to spokeswoman Marcee Rondan.

As tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, the pig was led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of Pink Floyd's "Pigs" from the 1977 album "Animals." Then it just floated away.

"It wasn't really supposed to happen that way. I don't have the details," Rondan told The Associated Press.

As for safety concerns, Rondan speculated, "Because it's inflatable, as it loses air it becomes less and less dangerous."

She did not know how much it weighed.

As of Tuesday, Rondan said, the festival had not been able to contact Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder and songwriting mastermind behind albums such as "Animals" and "The Dark Side of the Moon."

The pig displays the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two bloody cleavers. The other side reads "Fear builds walls" and the underside reads "Obama" with a checked ballot box for U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Waters, who told the crowd "that's my pig" as it drifted off into the night, closed out the three-day festival.

Pink Floyd shows have used blowup pigs throughout the years. Rondan called Sunday's "the same prototype" as past pigs.

"People are putting search teams together to find this pig," Rondan said. "But it may float in the night sky, never to be seen again."

Do you really want comments on that HERE?

Brought home the bacon...

It was hallucinating, singing Us and Them and trying to do boy band dances. Saved in time.

Look, Mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky

Hallucinating, for sure.
I was hoping some Oregonian or Idahoan would find the pig caught on top of that someday-to-be Boise Community Radio tower near the Owyhee Dam. Heh.

UMMM...it has been there for a long time?

The tower is that of KQTA Ke Buena..seriously, the thought of the pig hitting and breaking the dam that is next to an inactive fault millions of years old would be interesting.

Greatest "Classic" Rock & Roll Band? - Too Many Adjectives

Dear Deeds: When describing great Rock & Roll bands of all time, does another adjective help? Utility being the Mother of Invention, let me suggest a useful exercise. Along with Floyd & Zep, who be yer Top Ten of All Time?
1) Pink Floyd
2) Led Zeppelin
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The Forced Gesalt is worth the effort. Besides, would it make a playlist on The River 94.9 mhz?

Other than Pink Zeppelin...Led Floyd?

3) Electric Light Orchestra
4) Kansas
5) Moody Blues
6) Cheap Trick
7) Jethro Tull
8) Rush
9) Yes
10) Steely Dan

*in no particularly useful/meaningful order

Fore Ignore Gon Ian? (Top Hunnert?)

10.1) Rolling Stones
10.2) Cream
10.3) Kinks
10.4) Deep Purple
10.5) Jimi Hendrix Experience
10.6) Mountain
10.7) Beatles
10.8) Blue Cheer
10.9) Jefferson Airplane
10.10) Grateful Dead
10.11) Who
10.12) Dave Clark Five
10.13) Mothers of Invention

Who plays flute besides Ian Anderson in Jethro Tull?

Oh G, Marshall Tucker, Chicago, 1/2 the known 70s universe...

why do you ask?

Starbuck had a marimba I think. The Spoonful had an autoharp and the Doors a keyboard bass.

Carole King, Van Morrison, Seals and Croft had flautists...Tom Parker probably had one in his Apollo 100 recording of Joy, Barry White...

You know, when they had orchestras instead of Minimoogs, like Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues.

You may be older than 42, why are you asking me stuff I already know?

I waited till just past noon to hear about getting two pieces of furniture picked up from our auction and am 1/2 dead after less than six hours of sleep, you know. You can't win at trivia much under THOSE circumstances...

The pig helped maybe...

Obama is apparently a very popular ham now.