The LONG VALLEY BAR is on the Rory Gallagher ‘Stompin Ground’ Walking Trail – Stop NO. 8

Full detail is at this link over at the OFFICIAL Walking trail site kindly provided by the cork city Council. Below is a snippet from that website relevant to the Long Valley bar and Rory Gallagher.

https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-rocks-for-rory/rory-gallagher-stompin-ground-walking-trail/long-valley-bar-winthrop-street

“The relevance of the Long Valley Bar to Rory Gallagher is a simple one.

Upon returning to Ireland, Rory jammed with the local Cork band, The Axills. The bassist Eric Kitteringham and drummer Norman Damery offered Rory the position of guitarist after impressing the band.

Having completed a musical apprenticeship in the showbands and influenced by the increasing popularity of beat groups, Rory decided it was time to form his own band instead and asked Kitteringham and Damery to join.

It was at the Long Valley Bar in the summer of 1966 that Norman Damery, Eric Kitteringham and Rory met for a drink to discuss their new band. Seeing a Beamish beermat they stumbled across the tagline saying, ‘superior taste’ and from that they derived what they were going to name the band! which was later renamed simply Taste, a blues rock and R&B power trio.”