……..From the darkest, seediest Seattle ‘grunge’ club during the Seattle music scene explosion of the 90’s, to the bright lights of the huge Melbourne Park stage as opening act for rock legends, ‘Deep Purple’, ‘Smokin’ Joker’ has been winning over audiences since there first performance ten years ago……. As performers, ‘Smokin’ Joker’ have toured extensively around Australia, also successfully completing two independent tours of the USA, performing alongside such music greats as ‘Heart’, ‘Deep Purple’ and ‘Rose Tattoo’ to name a few. Lead by dynamic front man, Cory Hargreaves delivers his music with such vocal power and precision, he invited comparisons to both Robert Plant in his prime and the late great Bon Scott. As a band, ‘Smokin’ Joker’ possesses rare creative genius combining a strict rock sensibility with vast hard rock influences to create explosive, addictive, modern rock songs perfect in the current national/international music climate. <embed enableJSURL="false" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" src="http://lads.myspace.com/ type="application/x-shockwave width="426" height="320" wmode="transparent"></embed>