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Mark Evans Biography
Mark Whitmore Evans was born on March 2, 1956 in Melbourne,
Australia. In March 1975, Mark met AC/DC when they played a date at the
Station Hotel in Melbourne. He had actually been thrown out and barred
from the Station Hotel for brawling the night before the AC/DC show.
Mark and his mates managed to get back into the bar for the gig the next
night, but were eventually spotted by the hotel's bouncers who threw
them out once again. During the ensuing melée, Bon and AC/DC roadie
Steve McGrath jumped in to help Mark Evans. They managed to persuade the
hotel management not to throw him out. Two weeks later Mark joined the
band and even played one of his first shows with them at the Station
Hotel. Mark left AC/DC, due to some personality |
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clashes with Angus, during the summer of 1977 and
flew back to Australia. Joining up with vocalist Owen Orford and
drummer Peter McFarlane, he swiftly put together an outfit
called Contraband and recorded an album entitled 'Nothing To
Hide' for the Portrait label, which was released in 1978. Mark
Evans recorded three albums with Contraband.
Subsequently, Mark turned up in various Australian bands, none
of whom really went on to achieve anything of note. Arguably the
most interesting were Heaven, managed by Michael Browning and
fronted by one Allan Fryer, who was considered at one time to be
the hot favorite to replace Bon Scott after his tragic death in
1980.
The last anyone heard musically from Mark Evans was in Los
Angeles during the early '90s when he recorded an album with The
Zoo, led by Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood. |
