After five years at thepub, he left toreturnto music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.
On Saturday passers-by in Porthmadog will see it hauled from thepub and taken along its old tracks toreturnto a workshop for some "tender loving care".
There, a happy gig in a pub leaves him with a stowaway on his return trip to Edinburgh: the chambermaid from his hotel, a waiflike girl who becomes, in the city, his surrogate daughter.
And, yes, Haider had decided to stay on at thepub on the night of the crash rather than return home for his mother's 90th birthday, but family was the centre of his existence.