Marc started playing guitar at age 13 jamming along with the 1st Cars album and learning chords using an Eagles songbook. From there into high school he progressed to listening to Van Halen, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and a variety of other metal and hard rock groups in the 80s. At age 17 he gigged at the renowned Paradise rock club in Boston with the original/cover group Quantum and played with that group for several years.

In the early 1990s Marc formed October Road, an original melodic hard rock group whom he either wrote or co-wrote all of the material. During part of this time he also played in the progressive cover band Metropolis. In the late 90s he played in a string of short-lived cover groups such as Ludicrous Speed and Decade before joinging what was to become the highly sucessful cover band Moonwatcher in 2001. Upon Moonwatcher's demise in 2004 he took a year off, then joined Rockfish (which eventually became the short-lived 3-piece power trio Spite) as lead singer/lead guitar player. After that he began filling in with the 80s metal tribute group Decadence while also performing with the group Something Salty. Always a closet fan of southern and country rock, Marc saw the opportunity that Southern Breeze offered and jumped at the chance to be a part of it.