05/24/2026
We hope this is the truest version of what happened that day — because it’s just too good not to be.
May 1992. Pearl Jam was set to headline a free show at Seattle’s Gas Works Park - music, skateboarding, Rock the Vote. Two days before, the city shut it down over crowd concerns.
Eddie’s friends found a private five-acre forest with a vert ramp. The crew hauled the gear, rebuilt the ramp, and spread the word the old way.
Months later came the massive Magnuson Park
“Drop in the Park.” But for the lucky few who made it into that forest first - that was the one.
