An interesting article appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on Sunday (September 21st). They report that, in July 2002, the manager of String Cheese Incident bought Floyd's 40-foot inflatable pig to use at one of the Incident's concerts, but the pig, from the 1988 tour, was found to be torn into five sections with chunks missing too!

The US's top hot-air balloon repairers saw it as too difficult a job, leaving it to a small tailors in Austin, who spent three weeks surrounded by a jigsaw puzzle of deflated, detached porker.

Their hard work resulted in Saturday night's guest appearance and triumphant return of piggy at the Austin City Limits Music Festival! After a video of the pig's history was shown on the jumbo screen during the String Cheese Incident's set, spotlights hit the reconstructed pig as an eight-man crew walked it through the disbelieving crowd. Then, the band played "Another Brick In The Wall" to crown the moment...

The full story is here on their website...