{"id":1248,"date":"2021-07-07T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T22:14:23","slug":"mike-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/mike-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legendary Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1249\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1249\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mike-evans-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/07\/mike-evans-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/07\/mike-evans-2.jpg?resize=450,253 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/07\/mike-evans-2.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/07\/mike-evans-2.jpg?resize=335,188 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Evans holds a copy of the recently released book <em>Imposters.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throughout his long career, Holly-wood insider Mike Evans has met countless big-name celebrities, from John Wayne and Jimi Hendrix to Magic Johnson, Pete Rose and more. He&#8217;s even hosted a show since the mid-&#8217;90s called <em>On the Road with Mike Evans<\/em>, which provides his radio and podcast listeners from all over the country with exclusive info from the entertainment and sports industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first started covering Hollywood back in 1963. I know a lot of celebrities, a lot of publicists, agents, managers,\u201d declares the Hawai\u2018i-born Evans, whose celebrity news and gossip segment continues to be broadcast each weekday during the <em>Perry &#038; The Posse<\/em> show on KSSK.<\/p>\n<p>With the surplus of industry connections he has, it&#8217;s not unusual for Evans to be deluged with fresh intel to share.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve got more than I can handle,\u201d he states matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, even though his career has been a veritable who&#8217;s-who of interviewing industry luminaries, his personal backstory can also be considered nothing short of legendary in itself. In fact, the longtime Hollywood radio DJ and sportscaster is the inspiration for an \u201cas told to\u201d-style book titled <em>Imposters: Two Boys Who Fooled America<\/em> by author Richard Blade.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a true story, the novelized <em>Imposters<\/em> was released just last month. Evans believes the book has what it takes to be adapted into a movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody that&#8217;s heard the story, that&#8217;s read the book and has known the story forever, says it&#8217;s an unbelievable story,\u201d he declares.<\/p>\n<p><em>Imposters<\/em> covers a period in the lives of Evans and best friend John Thomas, two teenage boys raised in Torrance, California, who, for three years beginning in 1966, led a life on the lam from the FBI by assuming the identity of an obscure doo-wop duo called Johnny &#038; Jesse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of (the book) has to do with the Vietnam War,\u201d explains Evans. \u201cBack in those days, I was very anti-war. During the whole book you see that there are FBI people that are chasing me. Some of it is very funny, some of it is very surprising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the chapters is us in Hawai\u2018i, where we talk our way into The Monkees&#8217; room (prior to the band playing at) the NBC (Neal Blaisdell Center),\u201d shares Evans, 73. \u201cThere&#8217;s a Hawai\u2018i connection to it with a whole funny story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of these wild events took place early in Evans&#8217; life before he became a well-known DJ at the legendary radio station KROQ in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>By his own admission, Evans&#8217; personal and professional life has been quite strange and tangled, but it also has been an exciting tale.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with his father, a career U.S. Navy man, who was transferred from Long Beach Naval Station to Pearl Harbor in the 1940s. Tragedy struck the family early after Evans&#8217; mother died in his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther than my family, Hawai\u2018i is the biggest thing in my life,\u201d says Evans, who lived on Tusitala Street and attended nearby Ala Wai Elementary School. \u201cGrowing up in Hawai\u2018i, I was able to spend (time) with my dad (and enjoy) the aloha spirit. I remember marching down Kal\u0101kaua Avenue the day we became a state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family later relocated to California and, while living in Long Beach, Evans chose to quit high school at age 16. Till this day, he hasn&#8217;t regretted his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been blessed. I&#8217;m a high school dropout. I didn&#8217;t like high school and I&#8217;ve always loved the media,\u201d Evans explains.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately, he took a job as an intern at news station KFWB. Evangelist Billy Graham was the first celebrity that Evans ever interviewed. During this time, he also interviewed music giants Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Evans switched over to KRLA. \u201cIt was 1963. That was when I met Sonny (Bono). Casey Kasem and Bob Eubanks were disc jockeys at the station. Sonny was a record guy and I was only 17. I was working at the station as the flunky helping Bob Eubanks and he brought The Beatles to the Hollywood Bowl,\u201d Evans notes. <\/p>\n<p>He also met people who would change his life forever. They included noted music agent Jerry Heller, who eventually had a movie made featuring him called <em>Straight Outta Compton<\/em>. Using know-how gleaned from part-time work for Heller, Evans started booking the musical act called Caesar and Cleo at high school basketball games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter only a couple of gigs, they started using their names, Sonny and Cher \u2026 I was with them in the studio when they did <em>Look at Us<\/em> and the hit <em>I Got You Babe<\/em>,\u201d Evans reminisces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 1971 to 1974, I sold a syndicated daily baseball interview show that ran in nine markets every day, Monday through Friday, and I traveled with the LA Dodgers and (California) Angels,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>One vivid memory he has is of a special person he met when the Angels visited the Washington Senators during the 1971 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walk into the manager&#8217;s office and I&#8217;m sitting there talking to the manager of the Washington Senators, and that was Ted Williams. That was a big deal,\u201d says Evans of the Hall of Fame player for the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Evans&#8217; career became a whirlwind of excitement. For example, he did a gossip segment for the <em>National Star<\/em> and was the West Coast sports and entertainment editor for the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to interview everybody from John Wayne to when they sent me out to East Lansing (Michigan) to interview Magic Johnson when he was still in college. And I was in some movies,<em> Fast Break<\/em> with Gabe Kaplan,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI had a chance to do a one-on-one with John Wayne, which was really a treat, which was about a year before he died. Great, great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 1981 to 1989, most of those years I worked at KROQ in Los Angeles, which was the biggest, hottest radio station in the country. I did mornings there, and also mid-days there. But three different times, twice I quit and once I got fired, and all three times I left KROQ, I went back to Hawai\u2018i,\u201d Evans remembers.<\/p>\n<p>In the islands, he joined KPOI in 1983 as Mike \u201cThe Hose\u201d Evans. Three years later, he teamed up with Jay Stone at I-94 and then again two years later at the FOX.<\/p>\n<p>Another twist in Evans life came during the early &#8217;90s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started pitching this Hollywood gossip and big-story commentary radio feature for morning shows,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI started calling morning show friends that I had around the country to see if they were interested, including Michael Perry, who I&#8217;ve known all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in Evans making a daily report from the courthouse during the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial. Beyond Hollywood, however, he has covered a number of significant events, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9\/11 attacks \u2014 not to mention multiple presidential inaugurations, World Series and Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf everybody I&#8217;ve ever met \u2014 presidents, movie stars, Ted Williams \u2014 there&#8217;s only been one person I was so in awe of I made a fool of myself,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>That man was astronaut Neil Armstrong, who he was introduced to by baseball manager Tommy Lasorda during a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shook his hand, and went, \u2018You walked on the moon,&#8217; and he goes, \u2018yeah,&#8217; and I kept shaking his hand, and I go, \u2018You&#8217;re the first human to leave the planet and go to another sphere. There&#8217;s nobody in the world like you&#8217; \u2026 finally Tommy said, \u2018Mike, let go of his hand.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Evans and his wife, Cheryl, have divided their time between their houses in Palm Springs and Dallas, and traveling to visit their children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m a golf fanatic, and I play golf four to five days a week,\u201d Evans adds.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, Evans confesses he still has fond memories of his days in the Aloha State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing raised in Hawai\u2018i and it being my home, I miss everybody,\u201d he says, adding he longs for local food, especially malasadas. \u201cIt&#8217;s so much a part of my life. It&#8217;s just the best. 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