I took up the guitar in 1975 after listening to too many Status Quo and Deep Purple albums at High school and since have spent the last 26 years in bands and 20 years as a professional. I've been in many bands over that time, and have always gone for the sixties kind of blues rock, as that is what I grew up with.
During the 80's I played up around Newcastle and the Hunter Valley in such bands as The Mechanics, The Suburbs and Freeway to name a few. Playing Aussie rock at that time, Angels, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC plus  we had a swag of originals as well. In the early 90's I moved to the big smoke (Sydney) and started touring all over the world and had a great time doing that.

I spent almost 10 years touring the planet playing in many  5 star resorts in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand and New Guinea to the Casinos, festivals and country bumpkin bars in the back blocks of Canada and the USA.

 I've played everywhere from Lochinvar to Las Vegas and most everywhere in between, Ive twice playing the prestigious Calgary Stampede and Merritt Mountain Music Festivals. Many other festivals, county fairs and casinos across the USA and Canada, including Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe supporting such artist as The Everly Bros, Steppenwolf,  Alan Jackson, Keith Urban, Trisha Yearwood, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Burton Cummings (The Guess Who), BJ Thomas, Johnny Rivers, Alana Miles, Lover Boy, Terri Clarke, Chubby Checker, The Romantics, hell we even played with the Village People

Career highlights

• 5 Canadian/ USA tours playing festivals, casinos, theatres

• Working the world famous Calgary Stampede & Merritt Mountain Music Festival twice

• More than 10 Asian tours to over 12 different Asian countries

• Touring with many Rock Legends, incl The Everly Bros, BTO, Steppenwolf.

• Toured Australia wide to every state playing festivals, Casinos

• Played in over 10 leading bands from Sydney and Newcastle
  

Some of the bands I have played with include 60's mania Showband, The Beatnix, The Fab Four, Beatle Magic, The Stones Downunder, The Australian Beatles Show, The Elvis Experience, The Swingin' Sixties, Al James "The Voice of Neil Diamond", "Imagine That" The John Lennon Show, The British Invasion and The Fake Four to name a few.

I am also involved in country music and I won a major TSA song writing award Tamworth in 1999 for a song called "Boys will be Boys".
The song features on the TSA Country Songsearch 1998 CD. I continue to  write more songs and have recorded a country album called
The Sacred Cowboys. I have also recorded 2 CDs and gig with ROB CASS & THE COSMIC COWBOYS and currently am playing bass with The Fake Four in Newcastle.

Some of my favourite players include Jimi Hendrix,  Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, David Gilmore, Carlos Santana to name but a few, and I have seen some of them perform live as well. So I guess my style is a mix of all those guys plus my bits as well...

Johnno has been described as "Hendrix, Clapton, Santana and Chuck Berry all rolled into one and has to be one of the best Blues/Rock guitarist in the southern hemisphere", so if you like your music with style and attitude come and FEEL how a good guitarist sounds.