Question: The Thirsty Whale, which opened in 1975, was a rock and roll club in River Grove, Illinois, it brought in acts like which English rock band formed in London in 1971?

Context articles: John Poulos
Foghat
Salmonella Dub
VanLadyLove
State Theater (Youngstown, Ohio)
The Thirsty Whale
Thirsty Merc
Deep Purple
X-Ray Cafe
Evacuate (band)

John Poulos (born March 31, 1947) was the original drummer for The Buckinghams.
 He was a founding member of the Chicago area band in 1965.
 His mother Ann and his father John Sr.,were very proud of their youngest child in a family of solid Greek heritage.
 He graduated from Roosevelt High School in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in 1965.
 Lead guitar player Carl Giammarese lived only a few blocks away from John Poulos in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.
 His nickname since his late teens was "Jon Jon".
John Poulos was the leader of a high school band in Chicago called "The Pulsations".
 He approached singers George LeGros and  Dennis Tufano who sang harmonies in an acapella group called The Darsals to come join his band,"The Pulsations".
 Local Chicago-area deejay and booking agent @ Willard - Alexander agency Carl Bonafede attests to the fact that Jon Jon personally recruited singers Dennis Tufano and his close friend George Legros at Gordon Tech high school to the band Jon Jon Poulos approached Carl Bonafede head deejay who spun records for Dan Belloc's dances at the Holiday ballroom about becoming the manager of John's high school band "The Pulsations".
 When USA Records released The Buckinghams from their contract, the band had a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with Kind of a Drag.
 The members voted to part ways with personal manager Carl Bonafede.
 Jon Jon Poulos and Dennis Tufano flew out to Los Angeles to meet with James William Guercio to seek management and a new record deal.
 The meeting with Guercio led to The Buckinghams signing a new record contract with Columbia Records.
 John went into the music management side of the music business after the Buckinghams agreed to part ways in 1970.
 John managed his fellow ex-Buckinghams Carl Giammarese and Dennis Tufano when they formed a duo called "Tufano & Giammarese".
 "When The Buckinghams broke up in 1970 and Nick departed for a career in R&B and Marty wanted to go a different direction, Dennis Tufano and Carl decided to form a duo, Dennis and Carl.
 We put together a demo CD, with the help of Peter Shelton and his wife, and John determined to manage us and find us a recording deal.
 Reaching for the stars, he reached a zenith: John brought us to Ode Records, where we signed with Lou Adler, became “Tufano and Giammarese” and spent 7 years of our career together."
 John Poulos managed several other Illinois bands, most notably a band from the Fox River Grove area called Boyzz from Illinois.
 He died of heart failure in his Chicago home just short of his 33rd birthday in 1980.
 Carl Bonafede maintains there never would have been a Buckinghams band if not for the commitment of Jon Jon Poulos.
 His love of music and dedication to the band was unique.
 He often shared discussion of the business side of music with "the Screaming Wildman".
 John had one child, a daughter, Polly who was born in September 1970.
Foghat is an English rock band formed in London in 1971.
 The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in their music.
 The band has achieved eight gold records, one platinum and one double platinum record, and despite several line-up changes, continues to record and perform.
The original Salmonella Dub line-up formed in 1992 in Christchurch.
 They played their first gig in January 1993 at the Westport racecourse.
 The 'Dubbies' have rightfully been called the pioneers and originators of a unique Pacific style of dub/drum ‘n’ bass/reggae/hip hop and groove-based rock, along with other influential 90s bands like Hallelujah Picassos, Nemesis Dub Systems, Unitone HiFi, and to some degree, Supergroove.
 Acts such as Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shapeshifter, Cornerstone Roots, Kora, and Trinity Roots, as well as the new wave of Australian acts like Budspells, Rastawookie, King Tide, Red Eyes, and the likes, can all thank Salmonella Dub for breaking new ground, in an Australasian alternative music scene which was dominated through most of the 1990s by straight guitar rock, and electronic dance music.
 For many years the band has been connected to the small north Canterbury town of Kaikoura, where they have their studio, and where they helped found the Kaikoura Roots festival.
VanLadyLove is an American rock band from Provo, Utah.
 The band also has roots in Arizona, California and Utah.
 VanLadyLove was formed in 2012.
 Their first live show was opening for the band Parachute, after which they quickly gained a local following in Utah, which has begun to spread throughout the United States and Europe.
 VanLadyLove has opened for other prominent acts like Train, Portugal the Man, Blink 182, Zella Day, Coasts, Tyrone Wells, Cody Simpson, Tyler Ward, and Dave Barnes.
The State Theater was an entertainment venue in Youngstown, Ohio which showed films until the early 1970s and later became a popular night club establishment catering to major rock 'n' roll acts of the 1970s and '80s.
 The theater opened in 1927 at 213 Federal Plaza West and exhibited films until closing as a movie house in the early 1970s.
 On October 20, 1974, a night club called the Tomorrow Club opened in the old theater.
 Under the Tomorrow Club name, the venue hosted such bands as AC/DC, KISS, Rush, Ted Nugent, The Ramones and The Runaways.
 Most notably the club played host to The Ramones' first gig outside of the New York City metro area on July 20, 1976.
 This was also the gig where Joey Ramone was introduced to future members of the Dead Boys who later moved to New York City to set up shop as the house band at CBGB.
 The Tomorrow Club closed on December 22, 1978 and the venue opened as the Youngstown branch of the Agora concert hall chain on December 31, 1978.
The Youngstown Agora continued to book popular rock acts until it closed on July 23, 1982.
 It reopened under the State Theater and Civic Center name in May 1983, but it closed abruptly again in July 1983.
 The theater booked heavy metal and hard rock acts under the Star Theatre name from 1984 until early '86 before being bought by a group interested in turning the theater into a showcase for R&B, blues, jazz, hip-hop and soul groups in late 1986.
 The venue struggled under the Starr Palace name and closed for good in late 1988.
 The State Theater remained vacant until it was demolished in 2008.
 Only the facade remains.
The Thirsty Whale, which opened in 1975, was a rock and roll club at 8800 Grand Avenue, River Grove, Illinois.
 It brought in acts like Blue Öyster Cult, Molly Hatchet, Black Oak Arkansas, Extreme, Foghat, Johnny Winter and Peter Criss.
 Survivor performed here monthly early in their career.
Thirsty Merc are an Australian pop rock band formed in 2002 by Rai Thistlethwayte (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Phil Stack (bass guitar), Karl Robertson (drums), and Matthew Baker (guitar).
 In 2004 Baker was replaced by Sean Carey who was, in turn, replaced by Matt Smith in 2010.
 Thirsty Merc have released one extended play, "First Work" (September 2003), and four studio albums: "Thirsty Merc" (August 2004), "Slideshows" (April 2007), "Mousetrap Heart" (June 2010) and "Shifting Gears" (September 2015).
 The band have sold over 200,000 albums, toured extensively around Australia, and received national radio airplay for their tracks.
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.
 The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years.
 Originally formed as a progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970.
 Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies".
 They were listed in the 1975 "Guinness Book of World Records" as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
The X-Ray Cafe was a small music venue in Portland, Oregon, United States from 1990 to 1994.
 An all-ages and community-oriented club, the X-Ray played a "heavyweight role in shaping Portland's underground culture," fostering such musical acts as Elliott Smith, Team Dresch, and Quasi, and hosted national acts like Bikini Kill and Green Day and was described by "Details" as one of the best rock and roll clubs in the country.
 It was characterized by a surreal environment and performers; owners Tres Shannon and Benjamin Arthur Ellis, who took over the U.F.O Cafe to establish the X-Ray and were in the band The Kurtz Project, encouraged acts that featured instruments that aren't typically associated with rock music, like Big Daddy Meatstraw, who performed on stage in clown costumes.
 As grunge and alternative music were emerging in Portland and Seattle under a national spotlight, the X-Ray served as an important stage for smaller acts in the genre, and along with nearby Satyricon nightclub, established Portland as an important regional performing destination for touring bands.
Evacuate is a 6 piece punk rock band from Southern California founded in 2007.
 With influences ranging from bands like the Sex Pistols, Chelsea, UK Subs, to hardcore acts like Broken Bones, Negative Approach and the English Dogs.
 Evacuate's releases and live sets cover a wide range of the punk rock spectrum.