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Roger Waters plays `Dark Side,' unleashes giant pig (With "Vote Obama" on it)
Yahoo News ^ | April 28, 2008 | JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

Posted on 04/28/2008 7:00:27 AM PDT by KevinB

INDIO, Calif. - Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with an epic two-set performance that included playing all of "Dark Side of the Moon" and unleashing a giant inflated pig into the night sky.

The 64-year-old Waters, the third headliner of the three-day music festival following Prince and Jack Johnson, performed an elaborate, almost retrospective concert Sunday featuring music from throughout Pink Floyd's catalog.

Old photographs of the band often flashed across the screen behind Waters and his current band, which played songs from "The Wall," "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals," among other Floyd albums. They also played "Dark Side" in its entirety, culminating with the album's iconic triangle prism rising above the stage.

But Waters' biggest prop was an inflatable pig the size of a school bus that emerged while he played a version of "Pigs" from 1977's capitalism critique, "Animals."

The pig, which was led above the crowd from lines held on the ground, displayed the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam wielding two bloody cleavers. The other side read "Fear builds walls."

The underside of the pig simply read "Obama" with a checked ballot box alongside.

As Waters drew the song to a close, flame bursts exploded on the sides of the stage and the swine floated into the night sky. Waters said sadly and comically, "That's my pig."

The performance also included speaker towers placed around the outside of the crowd. Smoke machines funneled across the stage and over the audience, thickening the atmosphere.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: music; obama; pinkfloyd; rogerwaters
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1 posted on 04/28/2008 7:00:27 AM PDT by KevinB
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To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...

Rock and Roll Ping.


2 posted on 04/28/2008 7:02:30 AM PDT by KevinB (John McCain is to the Republican Party as James Taylor is to the the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
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To: KevinB

Hillary has Elton, I guess now Obama has Waters. I think I would take political advice from a group of five year old kids about as seriously as those two.

Both of you just shut up and sing okay? Go vote in your own country and stay the hell out of our politics, your drug addled emotionally driven advice aren’t needed here.


3 posted on 04/28/2008 7:07:17 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: KevinB
And PIG with a vote Obama on it? Wonder what the muslims would think of that...
4 posted on 04/28/2008 7:08:03 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: KevinB

How ironic that Waters would pick a PIG! Bring on that pork-barrel spending!


5 posted on 04/28/2008 7:10:18 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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but... dude. like... if roger waters... like... said... man... like... cool fireworks man. uhh... vote errbama. i... uhhm... like... uhh? what was i talking about again? uhh... nice piggy. nice giant piggy. ;)


6 posted on 04/28/2008 7:13:37 AM PDT by robomatik ((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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To: KevinB

Jack Johnson?.....Hard act to follow........Did he get a standing “O”?.............


8 posted on 04/28/2008 7:15:06 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: robomatik

Seen him twice in concert, you just described 90+ percent of the older people there.


10 posted on 04/28/2008 7:15:30 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: KevinB

Which one’s pink-o?


11 posted on 04/28/2008 7:15:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Abathar

It seems to me that this would violate McCain-Feingold...............


12 posted on 04/28/2008 7:16:52 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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13 posted on 04/28/2008 7:18:34 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: KevinB

I saw one of the Darkside shows last year. There was actually a lot less left wing rhetoric than I had been led to believe. The special effects get a lot attention, but Waters had world class musicians onstage with him, and they were incredible. All in all, it was a very good show and didn’t feature any more liberal yammering than you get from a lot of other rock musicians.

If you get the concert DVD ‘In The Flesh’ you’ll see almost exactly the same lineup of musicians, and a lot of the same songs (plus the video and surround sound audio are top notch, and you don’t have contend with the crowds).


14 posted on 04/28/2008 7:18:53 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: KevinB

Did Waters name the pig McCain?


15 posted on 04/28/2008 7:22:17 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: 2banana
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. ESPECIALLY after he showed them all he was still "on the team" by making a deal out of his not wearing a US flag pin.
16 posted on 04/28/2008 7:23:59 AM PDT by NordP (Global Warming is Natural - We're on our way to an ice age. PLEASE drive SUVs and warm our planet!!!)
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WOOOOOO FOX JUST REPORTING... Nation of Islam now protecting Rev Wright because of death threats.


17 posted on 04/28/2008 7:24:53 AM PDT by NordP (Global Warming is Natural - We're on our way to an ice age. PLEASE drive SUVs and warm our planet!!!)
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To: 2banana
Wonder what the muslims would think of that...

They might riot, throw fatwahs, and burn thousands of cars, but they would still vote for Obomba.

18 posted on 04/28/2008 7:25:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: KevinB

Waters is a musical genius and a philosophical midget. Listen to the words of “Amused to Death” for one nonsequiter after another in this warmed-over anti-war piece that would have been better suited for release when he originally penned it, rather than 20 years later and forced onto the template of the Gulf War.

Great music and accompanying vocals, though, but not a whit of philosophical insight.


19 posted on 04/28/2008 7:26:01 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: KevinB
I now await with bated breath for Keith Richards to weigh in.

Vote for ... uh... Vote for...

Oh the hell with it...
Where's my heroin?

20 posted on 04/28/2008 7:26:54 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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