Are you serious? Do you think we just sat there waiting for Joe 90 to finish?
My time was from 79 onwards anyway, I was there every single Saturday without fail.
RS didn't come on until 2 AM, probably milled around in the record bar for couple of hours before that.
I can guarantee you that at 2 AM that place was the best place to be in Britain bar non.
I moved on myself, got into lots of other the stuff, but that's not the point.
It's not as black-and-white as you make it sound, let's talk about the quality on offer, not just the crap.
But to each their own.