Sweet! But the Evergreen still really wasn't a place for a high school cheerleader to hang out. Its legacy as a rough-and-tumble roadhouse lived on. As the Daily Olympian later noted: "oldtimers around the county remember The Green as a knock-down-and-drag-out, foot-stomping, two-by-four bustout joint where fists could fly at the drop of an insult" (Watt).
The Northwest Rocks
In 1963 Irving died and the aging Mary and Elmer struggled to run the place. It was around 1965 that the enterprise was finally sold to a real-estate broker named Dick Campbell, who bought in as an investment. Although he himself had been a trumpeter in his high school band, Campbell knew nothing about either show business or operating a dining/dancing establishment. Still, he led the Evergreen through its next incarnation, increasing his crowds just as the overall audience for rock 'n' roll music also expanded -- and he did that by booking both the most popular local bands right along with national acts out on tour.
Among the earliest local Northwest rockers who played the Evergreen were Tacoma or Olympia combos: the Royal Kings with Johnny Moore, the Triumphs, Corvettes, and the Stingrays. But as the regional scene picked up steam others came through, including Burien's Statics and Seattle's Dynamics and Viceroys. Then, as the golden era of garage rock really dawned, countless others followed: Bobby and the Innkeepers, the Bootmen, Shalimars, Artesians, Majestics, Solitudes, Beachcombers, Galaxies, Sonics, Regents, Statesmen, Bootmen, Deacons, Noblemen, Entertainers, Raymarks, Nomads, Imperials, Gatormen, Pageboys, Mercy Boys, Liberty Party, Sir Raleigh and the Cupons, Bumps, Dimensions, Randellas, and the Poverty Five. The Evergreen also brought in a good number of local bands who were on the verge of making waves with big-time national hits: the Kingsmen, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts, Don and the Goodtimes, and the Bards.
Evergreen Revisited
When Interstate 5 was finally completed in 1967 it improved north-south traffic flow but also unfortunately steered the vast majority of travelers (and touring musicians) away from the old Highway 99 route. Though the Evergreen was still bringing in acts with Top-40 hits -- like the Newbeats, Dick and Dee Dee, the Rascals, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and the Grassroots -- the room was now off the beaten path and its fate was sealed. So it was that around 1967-1968 Campbell tired of the whole enterprise and sold out to Mel Carter, who officially redubbed the place The Green. That period -- and the years that followed -- was another of fast-changing musical times: from psychedelic acid-rock, to country rock, to hard rock, to disco, to heavy metal and on and on ...
Carter didn't last long, and the next apparent owner was Bruce Reeves, an employee of the state's Department of Natural Resources. Reeves attempted to stay current by bringing in popular Northwest bands of the day -- including Neighb'rhood Childr'n, American Eagle, Smiling Castle, Ice, Superband, Sweet Rolle, and Pitchblende -- but then as the 1970s came around, fewer and fewer touring acts came through and The Green's finances were suffering. By 1982 the room was becoming known for its metal emphasis -- indeed, one legendary October show featured two of Seattle's finest young headbanger bands, Culprit and Overlord -- but, that audience was not sustaining the business.
In 1983 Fon Morcus -- whose band, the Fonics, became the house-band -- bought the place and tried unsuccessfully to recast it as a topless bar. It was in 1983 that another entrepreneur, Bob Bundy, acquired the lease, but he also failed to recreate the room's old magic. Booking the talent once again, Morcus proceeded to bring in what amounted to a string of past-their-prime national acts including Leon Russell, Michael Martin Murphy, Johnny Paycheck, Elvin Bishop, Foghat, Edgar Winter, and a John Fogerty-less Creedence Clearwater Revisited. The dance-floor began to surrender turf to an increasingly popular billiard zone, and then the hall emerged as the brief home of a small hip-hop scene that held annual talent shows in 1998 and 1999.
Last Call
Finally, in January, 2000, Steve and Lynette Brizer took over the lease, held dances and billiard tournaments, and announced plans to open up a casino. Tragically, poor communications between the Brizers and Morcus resulted in the building having no insurance -- and finally, on the afternoon of Thursday, July 20, 2000, mere minutes after a new oven was reportedly installed in the kitchen -- the old hall broke out in flames. The Lacey Fire Department got their first 911 telephone call at 3:20 p.m., and their crews arrived quickly, but within 45 minutes the collapsed hall was a lost cause. The origins of the smoky blaze -- which subsequently spread into a five-acre grass fire -- were difficult to pinpoint because the rubble pile continued to burn until the following day.
Amidst their public bickering, Morcus announced that he would rebuild -- if the public supported a $1-million "Evergreen Ballroom Fundraiser" drive -- while the Brizers announced a "Fire Victims Fund" drive to help recoup their $200,000 personal investment. Charity concerts were advertised -- one with area South Sound hip-hop crews like DJ Jay-B, Slowpoke, Uncommon, and Half Dec, and another with Olympia folk rock band, Sister Sound Brother Beat, contributing their efforts -- but it was an uphill battle that would not be won.
Four days after the fateful fire, Olympia guitarist, Phil Quigley -- a man whose own mother had snuck out of the house as a girl to attend big-band shows there back in the 1940s -- summed up the sad vibe of that summer's terrible loss: "There were a lot of spirits in the hardwood floor of the ballroom" (Longoria). Yes, spirits that presumably joined those from the dance-floors of the many other historic Northwest ballrooms that have met their fates in recent decades.
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died July 20 of a suspected suicide. He was 41. Linkin Park bandmember Mike Shinoda wrote on Twitter: "Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true." Bennington, a Phoenix native, was open about his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, which occurred at various times during his life. The band had just released its seventh studio album, One More Light, and was set to embark on an extensive North American tour. The group was one of the most popular rock bands to emerge in the early 2000s. Their debut album Hybrid Theory has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. since its release in 2000, per Nielsen SoundScan. The band won Grammy awards in 2001 for best hard rock performance for "Crawling" and again in 2005 for best rap/sung collaboration for "Numb/Encore."
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Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of New Orleans, died Oct. 24. He was 89. Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner's office, said Domino died of natural causes. In appearance, he was no Elvis Presley. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with hits including "Blueberry Hill," ''Ain't It a Shame" and other standards of rock 'n' roll. He was one of the first 10 honorees named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rolling Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement. His dynamic performance style and warm vocals drew crowds for five decades. One of his showstopping stunts was playing the piano while standing, throwing his body against it with the beat of the music and bumping the grand piano across the stage.
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