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One minute they were onstage at Cook's Corner playing 'Rhiannon.' Then came a hail of gunfire

LOS ANGELES — When Mark and Debbie Johnson's band M Street took the stage at Cook's Corner in rustic Trabuco Canyon on Wednesday night, the crowd was boisterous and happy. The five-piece group are regulars on the Orange County cover-band circuit, playing a wide repertoire of classic-rock chestnuts at local venues like the House of Blues and yacht clubs around the Newport Beach area, where the ...
An aerial view of investigators working the scene where a gunman killed three people and six were taken to hospitals after a shooting the previous night at Cook's Corner, a landmark biker bar in Trabuco Canyon, California, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.

LOS ANGELES — When Mark and Debbie Johnson's band M Street took the stage at Cook's Corner in rustic Trabuco Canyon on Wednesday night, the crowd was boisterous and happy.

The five-piece group are regulars on the Orange County cover-band circuit, playing a wide repertoire of classic-rock chestnuts at local venues like the House of Blues and yacht clubs around the Newport Beach area, where the Johnsons, married for 39 years, live. The couple's guitar-playing next-door neighbor, Ed Means, joined the group six years ago.

While their musical careers have sometimes taken them

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