While a lot of bands acclimated Bonnaroo as a belvedere to play hits, Pearl Jam acclimated their Saturday night closing set to absolve some rarities. Around 10:15 p.m., the bandage strolled assimilate the date and kicked off with "Hard to Imagine," a attractive carol that the bandage has alone played a few dozen times back 1992. Afterwards on, they angry out jams like "W.M.A," and monster covers of the Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" and Dylan's "All Forth the Watchtower."
Vedder - who beforehand had abutting Jack Johnson on a affiliation of the bank bum's jam "Constellations" - got political at credibility during Pearl Jam's set. Afore the bandage performed "Gone," Vedder batten alarmingly about the apparent acceleration in gas prices back George Bush took over the White House. And later, he apprenticed the army to get out and vote (presumably for Barack Obama) in the November election. "A song cannot change the world," he declared. "But this abounding humans can change the world. How do we know? It is stitched into the bolt of our banderole and it is anchored into our architecture that we accept the appropriate and the albatross to accomplish change." Of course, portions of the army were agitated by Vedder's proclamations - Bonnaroo, afterwards all, is amid in Tennessee, the affection of Bush Country. One dude even shouted, "You're a dipshit," afore affronted off the grounds.
But Vedder's political statements didn't get in the way of their alarming set, which aswell featured tunes like "Black," "Why Go," "Even Flow" and "Corduroy." During a awning of Victoria Williams' addictive carol "Crazy Mary" - which includes the lyrics "Take a bottle/ alcohol it down/ canyon it around"- Vedder hopped off the date to allotment his canteen of red wine with kids in the foreground row. The highlight of the band's set was "Betterman," during which the army afire lighters and shouted forth to the words, drowning out the band. Vedder seemed visibly affected by the sight, saying, "That's fucking beautiful, man!
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