The Smoke’s slight, long-haired guitarist Brett Tauri left home at 15, got his own flat (not yet the teenage rite of passage it would become), learnt one of the new instruments of teen rebellion (the bass) and grew his hair long, copping the usual redneck flak around town.
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Lester Dempster - drums
Len Monk - bass
Roly Nixon - guitar
Lawrie Opai - bass
Peter Sandford - keyboards
Brett Tauri - guitar, vocals
Earle White - drums
Ray Nixon - vocals
The Smoke were initially called Freddy Foo and The Creepers. It didn't last.