I was a regular upstairs from '71 'til I moved to Ayrshire in '78. I have fond memories of a lot of the bands, names which I remember - Gasoline Alley, Foxy, Creed, Anthem, Dinah Moe Hum, Stiltz, Cava, and Joe Cool.
Jerry Eadie from Gasoline Alley is still earning his crust as a muso, doing solo stuff in Chicago and Eddie Houston from Creed is still playing. He was on at the retro festival at Strathclyde Park a while back and can be contacted on Facebook.
Sadly, Alec Bates, the old (he was 33 when I was 18) train driver, died a wee while back.
I worked behind the bar there for 1 week and saw, with total disgust, beer lifted from tables at afternoon closing time put behind the bar and resold in the evening. I only ever drank bottled Guinness anyway so it didn't affect me, but it was pretty gross. Doubtless The Waterstons never knew
Multi dinero, multi ficky fick, multi divorce.