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Where did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:23 pm
by enailer
Where did you have your first pint??
Mines was the Pippin on Duke Street just at Parkhead Cross.
Oh what a day ah think ah won aboot 7 quid at pool too. The only thing was there was naebodyy playin darts then Ah could huv won a fortune. That was around 1971/72.
Let me know your time.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:06 pm
by mulphy
i had my firstregular pints in the stepps hotel on stepps road in cranhill , around about 1975 or 76 , id have been around 15 .

my first ever pint was in the amphora bar in sauchiehall street when i was about 14 , went in to see a band called the cuban heels with a friend , they went on to be just a wee bit famous as simple minds .

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:39 pm
by Josef
Quite the reverse, in fact - Cuban Heels were the members of Johnny & the Self Abusers who didn't go on to be Simple Minds.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:18 pm
by Dexter St. Clair
Josef wrote:Quite the reverse, in fact - Cuban Heels were the members of Johnny & the Self Abusers who didn't go on to be Simple Minds.



leave the guy alone . They sold genuine Carlsberg Export from Copenhagen in the amphora, nae wonder he's got his memory mixed up.

The Glasgow, Scotland post punk band was formed when Johnny and The Self-Abusers disbanded. John Milarkey formed The Cuban Heels and released one album and several singles, the last one in 1981. Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill formed Simple Minds. They, of course, lasted a lot longer.

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Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:48 am
by mulphy
you are quite correct , and i am wrong .

on the break up of johnny and the self abusers , who i never got to see , some of the former members formed cuban heels , while others went on to form simple minds .

it was 30 odd years ago , and i was only a pup , geez a brek .

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:12 am
by onyirtodd
enailer wrote:Where did you have your first pint??
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The Three in One on Woodlands Rd (now Uisge Beatha) around 1968.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:12 am
by well skelpt coupon
Howdy,

The Shawlands Hotel, when Guinness was 89p a pint and I was a gangly 15 year old with a dodgy 'tache.

Regards

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:22 am
by onyirtodd
well skelpt coupon wrote:Howdy,

The Shawlands Hotel, when Guinness was 89p a pint and I was a gangly 15 year old with a dodgy 'tache.

Regards



There's no such thing as a 'tache which isn't dodgy.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:39 pm
by skintobalinto
well skelpt coupon wrote:Howdy,

The Shawlands Hotel, when Guinness was 89p a pint and I was a gangly 15 year old with a dodgy 'tache.

Regards


Myself also

15 - Shawlands Hotel - Dodgy tache,

The purple plastic seating before it was done up and tried to become a piano bar.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:16 pm
by Doorstop
1984, Elliots Bar, the Burnbrae Hotel, Bearsden.

On my second visit I got involved in a stramash and after the dust settled the bar chargehand asked if I wanted to work on the door the following weekend.

The rest is history.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:10 pm
by Josef
mulphy wrote:it was 30 odd years ago , and i was only a pup , geez a brek .


Have a Kit-Kat.

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Welcome to HG, btw. :D

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:59 pm
by hambone
my first pint was in the iron horse west nile st ,where a pound !! a pound could get exactly 8 pints of lager.this was in 1971 when we just went decimal ,a pint o tennents was 12 n a half p.imagine going out on friday night wi yer mates 2 quid in yer sky rocket 8 pints fish supper taxi hame before it got dark! pubs shut at 10 o clock in those days and still have enough for a curer on saturday... happy days

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:40 am
by boukra
My first illegal pint was in Saracen's Head on Gallowgate. I'm fairly sure it was scrumpy. I'd like to think it was scrumpy. Anyway, the venue and drink would have been recommended by other under-age pioneers.
I remember it well because my mate's young brother was with us. He must have been about 14, but tall and probably looked more legal than both of us. I'm not sure if it was the venue or the illegal drinking but the young lad was trembling and when he lifted the pint glass to take his first sup he crushed it in his hand. Obviously the pre-agreed policy of not drawing attention to ourselves went straight oot the windae.

Another venue used around the same time was the Treble Two on Abercromby St. Again because it would have been known on the grapevine as an "easy" house.

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:05 pm
by Doorstop
Under-age pioneers .. not heard that one before. ::):

Re: Wher did you have your first pint(Legal or Ill)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:42 pm
by Dexter St. Clair
Doorstop wrote:Under-age pioneers .. not heard that one before. ::):



Interesting use of the word pioneer in this context. Not that I would expect you alkies to be aware of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart, of which i am proud to be a member.
We have 5000,000 members half of them in Ireland. One of my predecessors inadvertently invented the word Teetotal. he was announcing the name of out beloved organisation when he stumbled and stammered the total part.

There's another couple of weeks of Lent left. Do yourselves some good and give it up.

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