Dave Paulson

dnpaulson@tennessean.com

During Pearl Jam's headlining set at Bonnaroo on Saturday, frontman Eddie Vedder raised his voice in more ways than one.

Between blistering renditions of favorites such as "Corduroy" and "Evenflow," Vedder had a few words to share about Donald Trump — or as he joked, it was his "happy thought for the day."

"There's some candidate out there that's talking about building a giant wall," he said. "You've been reading the papers? You've been educating? Building a wall — to do what? That would cost how much? That is impossible? That would be disrespectful to millions of human beings? In the country of the United States of America that's built on exactly the opposite idea? I was thinking about — if there's an option ... maybe we could just build a wall around him. We'd pay for it. I'd pay for it. It'd be cheap, 5 by 5. I'd like a little cinder block window in there so we could all just walk up to it once in a while and just do this (raises middle finger)."

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Pearl Jam was set to play until 1:30 a.m., after lightning put Bonnaroo briefly on hold Saturday night.

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