GlideMagazine.com's Leslie Michele Derrough has issued an interview conducted with former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans, in which he talks about his book, Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC. An excerpt follows:

Q: When did you know you wanted to write a book?

A: "Oh boy, I think it’s just a natural thing. I don’t think it’s anything you can actually force to do, you know. You just got to feel like it’s the right time for you. I had some things going on on the family front that made me really focus on what’s important in life and I think that was the main trigger for me. My priorities have always been pretty good but I had a couple of things that happened in my life that made me focus on what is really important and that was my motivation. The other motivation for writing the book was that over the years I’ve been shown so much support and kindness from fans of AC/DC, right. They’d come to the gigs and be supportive of the other things I did and after shows they’d say, 'What was it like being on the road with the band and what was Bon Scott like?' It’s just a way of paying back all the support I’ve received over the years from the fans and 99.99% of them are really genuine and really lovely people. And the book has given me the chance to put those people on the inside of the band in those really formative years.

"AC/DC as a band, they don’t tend to be very outgoing with information. Particularly Angus and Malcolm, they’re very private people in a business that doesn’t necessarily allow for a lot of privacy. So it’s just great to put the fans of the band on the inside of what it was like in the very formative years of the band; particularly with Bon Scott, you know. There are a lot of people interested in what Bon was like. I’ve read other books that have spoken about the period I was in the band and there have been a lot of inaccuracies in what was printed. Some of the stuff I’ve read about the time when I was in the band was like I was reading about another band. It was never really close to the mark. This was just a nice way of putting the fans on the inside of the band and just getting a bit more accuracy into the whole deal."

Read the full interview at this location.

Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC is out now via Bazillion Points Book. For more info on the book visit its website.

Evans joined AC/DC in 1975 and remained with them through their barroom days, their first international tours, and the majority of the Bon Scott-era albums: High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, T.N.T., Let There Be Rock, and the US-only '74 Jailbreak collection.