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Mark Johnson has enjoyed a music career that has spanned 3 decades and began at age 12 in his first originals band. At 16 he was a regular feature of the Sydney Pub scene with an originals/covers band called Blind Ambition and during this early part of his guitar apprenticeship was invited to play with both Tommy and Phil Emmanuel. Not long after he was offered a position with The Bleach Boys as lead guitarist and musical director and toured Australia's east coast for the next five years. The following decade saw Mark tour with some of the bigger club/pub acts at the time such as Zenyatta, Bandanna where he played to his biggest crowd ever of 14000 people, the Paul McCartney and Wings show and then back into originals again with Tiger Bay. Mark saw out the millenium in one of Sydney's more popular show bands, "The family Von Trapp" and then decided to take a break to figure out his next move. 2000 saw Mark taking part in a variety of projects including, The Top Dogs, The Phil