As previously reported, BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai has issued his new book, Fire And Fame, co-written with former BONFIRE bassist Joerg Deisinger. Following is an excerpt from a recent interview.

Q: Three years is a long time to spend on writing about someone else’s life…

Carl: “It wasn’t three years straight. All tolled it was probably more like a year-and-a-half’s worth of writing and re-writing, because we had breaks in between where Joerg would head back to Thailand for a few months and I’d go back to Toronto. Plus we had our day-to-day lives to worry about. So this was put together amongst all that. The rest of the time was spent editing the thing, which was an adventure in itself.”

Q: Why?

Carl: “I’m not going to get into it. Let’s just say that the person who volunteered to edit the book had her own agenda, which was screwing us up royally, so we were forced to take the book back. Unfortunately, in my experience it’s not very smart to try and edit your own material because after reading and re-reading and re-reading it you’re blind to the mistakes that other people might pick up on immediately. But, this is what happens when you’re working independently and there’s no real budget. You make do with what you have, and with that in mind I think we’ve kicked some ass with this."

Go to this location for the complete interview (scroll down).

Fire And Fame is now available for purchase. It is a co-written work featuring the memoirs of former BONFIRE bassist Joerg Deisinger, but according to Begai "it's more of a behind-the-scenes look at the '80s and early '90s hair rock scene than a Bonfire retrospective. I was never a fan of Bonfire beyond a song or two, but getting into Joerg's story was easy because it was so damn interesting learning about the guts of the biz both in Europe and the US back in the heyday of cock rock."

For more information and to purchase go to fireandfame.com. Excerpts from the book can be found this location.