The L'amour Era

[@FrankgNY62]

How fucking lucky were we? Damn what good times! Cheers to you all! Hope life has treated you all well! Rock On Old Timers🤟🏻

[@angelarose249]

It was a great era, R.I.P to my friend Pete Steele.

[@hazmat317]

His music lives on through Carnivore AD

[@johnsanchez5463]

the best time ever!!

[@suzannehurley8473]

😭♥️

[@nanditeplus]

Yeah...

[@mnicrashSoren]

I had some of the best nights as a teenager at LAMOUR Mercyful Fate, Megadeth, Exodus, and Overkill and so on thank you it was absolutely epic

[@s197mustangfan]

TT Quick, Manowar, Ace Frehley, Keel, Overkill, Anvil, Armored Saint......best times of my life! Thanks for a great vid.

[@tlansing18]

And Helstar too

[@reubensane5539]

Dude so cool cause I was at those same shows lol Ace one of his first shows without makeup.

[@rambo7117]

It's so haunting how you can still see, hear, taste and smell a moment in time that is so completely gone!

[@corrinaamato8805]

seriously! I can actually taste the coke drip down my throat... even smell it, that waa that goood shit

[@harleylady361]

Drove from Schenectady 3 hrs to see Overkill .Next few times we went to L'amour East we took train, way more fun !!! I am glad I lived these times best live music ever ! L'AMOUR ROCKS !!

[@tlansing18]

Hi Karen. Im from schdy. Do we know each other

[@Kerannnng]

Back when the NYC metal scene was actually a metal scene. Today its all snobby cliques.

[@keller5279]

And today it's non-existent. THANK GOD I grew up when I did!

[@mr.d.572]

NYC has not had a metal scene in an incredibly long time. It went from pretty big to being eclipsed by salsa and really bad top 40.

[@folladordeprostis]

@@mr.d.572now rap hip hop

[@Telelogic]

Billy Sheehan's Talas, Queensryche, Loudness, Rory Gallagher, Yngwie, Malmsteen, White Lion. Some of my best metal memories of the '80's right there!

[@littlechicken963]

With three clubs .brooklyn . Queens . And Far East on Long Island . To list all the bands I've seen . But the one that tops the list was manowar . So loud and so clear on Friday night . Saturday the volume was much lower . Ten minutes before the went on the club music went off an through the pa a there was the most annoying sounds .

[@hughjanus3798]

I saw Zebra at L'Amour East in Queens. Awesome! I got there early and I heard them sound-checking As I said Before, I opened the door a little to watch and some big guy yelled at me a told me to leave! lol

[@littlechicken963]

Hugh Janus that was a great club ! I grew up in queens so I had seen so many shows there . If you have Netflix twisted sister had a documentary on there. And they talk about zebra on it .

[@hughjanus3798]

***** Cool! I think I only went there once for Zebra, around 1984-85. Great show!

[@AprilWatters]

I waitressed there in those days,, were great times! Talas, one of my Favs! I saw Billy Sheehan just a few years ago at BB Kings NYC right after hurricane Sandy

[@rickkees8313]

I remember our first time there opening for Twisted Sister. I was gave directions to the place on a matchbook. Got lost as hell coming from West "By God" Virginia. The club was awesome as well as the bartenders and staff. One of the doormen/bouncer saved my life that night. Think his name was Sy. He wore half a cow as a leather vest. (-: We played there numerous times afterwards and we looked forward to every time. I was working for the band WrathChild at the time.

[@stangregor6040]

saw metallica wasp and armored saint....slayer and megadeth..zebra ....GOD..I MISS THAT PLACE...

[@steveaxeman1]

Played there one time in the beginning and one time in the end. Love the place. not many clubs like that anymore

[@afterburner666]

Saw many shows there in the 80's. One of the few memories I have was seeing Motorhead and Lemmy came out before the show to play the Ms Pacman machine. People were crowding him and he was just cursing them out to back off so he could get a game in. It was hysterical. Was right up front on the stage for that one. Couldn't hear anything for a while after that one.

[@markmackay6426]

Great club. Saw Anvil there, two nights in October 1984. Drove down from Toronto. Couldn't believe the upcoming shows, metal was alive and well then.

[@RangerPete1994]

Saw my 1st concert there back in 1984... Manowar on the Hail to England tour... Went to many shows there.. Great place ... Great Bands....

[@mrsavoy66]

filled with demons....right

[@sassy731]

This was so awesome. Thank you for putting this together, Ken. It was an honor to work you and with some of the greatest people in the world

[@BernieLeone]

My best memories was in L'amour!

[@LayZeeDawg]

Thanks for the vid Ken, lots of years have gone by since these pics, brought back lots of memories.

[@eddiedavis5443]

I saw Queensryche( I carried a girl out to the lobby who collapsed near the stage,lost my spot),Anthrax(my first stage dive),Yngwie(got his autogragh),White Lion,Saxon,Testament,Wasp,Cities,TT Quick(Dave rules!)Awsome times!"You can't sit at the tables if you don't buy a drink"

[@zombieaddict]

I started going there in the late 80's and was hooked. Saw Overkill and Type O Negative there SO many times. Skid Row. Pantera. Widowmaker with Dee Snider. Biohazard. Tyketto. Vixen. L'amour was basically our second home.

[@hunterg6697]

From my first experience in 1984, to my last sometime in early 2000s ... To this day I still can't get the Aquanet taste out of my mouth. Rock on L'amorz!!

[@michellesakura1]

Best music venue in NYC back in the day hands down. I wish I could have lived this

[@RonAngell44]

great times. love the photos,really enjoyed this. Thanks!!

[@amsedelm]

Awesome job Ken! I played there many times. Great memories.

[@richarddelfino]

had the pleasure of playing there myself in my band at the time. Grew up seeing so many great bands. Best times seeing DRI, Slayer, Moterhead, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns, BAR 7, Ace Frehley. Wish I had a chance to see KIX and Paul Stanley when he was there. The fun was going to ZIG ZAG and buying tickets for L'amour shows.. Good times!

[@anthonylipka5874]

A girl who used to tend bar there owned a bar in ozone park queens. She has so many pictures with every one who played there it is ridiculous.best band to ever play there OVERKILL! the birth place of the wrecking crew!

[@AudiophileTubes]

Oh MAN... WOW! This brings back some great memories! Saw some great shows at L'Amour during my immortal, 'pre-grey hair' era! Queensryche (The Warning tour), Ace Frehley (first show without makeup), White Lion, Saxon, Malmsteen, and so many more, my now feeble old mind of 60 can't remember. They really packed them in too! I can still remember the electricity in the air as Ace Frehley took the stage without his makeup, and hearing 'oohs and aaahs' and 'holy shit' repeated over and over....

[@tomgiustra7087]

Mother was a bartender there for many years. The people were awesome. Feels like a lifetime ago lol.

[@toulad0802]

Just finished watching the video and it brought back sooooo many memories of undoubtedly one of THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE!!! I was thrilled to see pics of myself as well as my husband included in the montage!!! So many familiar faces...where does the time go!! Thank you so much for putting that together!!!!!

[@forvaughn]

So many great nights. So many great shows. What a time! What a place! Brooklyn, Queens, and out East. L'amour was just fucking AWESOME!!!

[@auralfury]

Some great acts ripped thru that PA system.....Battle of the bands, had the honor of playing there..r.i.p to a great club

[@georgeedward1226]

I miss that place. First show I saw there was Accept in 1984.

[@tyorbs6277]

DJ Alex Kayne was the best DJ any metal club would see every time a local band would give him a record they just released he would play it everyday

[@RubnerFamily]

I had MANY a long night at L'Amour in the 80s. Zebra, Joe Perry Project, Motley Crue. Epic!

[@josephbiondi8427]

I'm only 35, but I lived a few blocks away from L'amour 's and went there all the time from 2001-2003 until it closed. Halford two nights in a row, Manowar, Immortal, Nightwish, Overkill a bunch of times, Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Deicide a few times, Cannibal Corpse a few times, Dying Fetus twice, Nevermore a few times, Children of Bodom, Morbid Angel, King Diamond, Symphony X a few times, Kreator, Destruction, Hate Eternal, Arch Enemy, Vader, The Crown, etc and when there wasnt a big band playing, there was a decent cover band playing and I usually knew a band in high school opening for any of these shows and tickets were always like $10 or $12 on average. I miss that place every day of my life. Best memories were from 2001-2003. Got to meet most bands outside. And my tattoo artist is right down the block.

[@Mitzi73]

I saw Halford too during those years there.

[@josephbiondi8427]

@@Mitzi73 right on, brother. We will probably never see that again. Or if Halford were to do a solo tour, it don't be in any small club like that. Those were some of the most magical years of my life. I live a few blocks away, like 5 minutes by car. It was perfect for me.

[@richarddelfino]

Never More was awesome! saw them a few times there.

[@josephbiondi8427]

@@richarddelfino me too. Twice. Last time opening for Bodom & Dimmu Borgir

[@folladordeprostis]

@@josephbiondi8427why closed in 2004?

[@hughjanus3798]

Great video! I was there, I understand! I saw Motorhead many times there, Manowar, Accept, Fastway, Ace Frehley (still got the guitar picks) White Lion. I can't remember anymore. Rock On!

[@littlechicken963]

Can't remember if it was in queens or Brooklyn where udo from accept tackled one of the guitar players . All the shows you said I was there . Queensrych in queens was so crowded the mirrors were fogged up

[@hughjanus3798]

I saw Accept at L'Amour, I think it was Balls to the Wall tour. I took pics, I gotta got them scanned.

[@littlechicken963]

Hugh Janus it's been so long ago but I think it was queens . There were the nights it was about seeing the band like with overkill and the nights you went to see white loin it was about hooking up .

[@hughjanus3798]

***** I never heard about that Udo fight.

[@AprilWatters]

I waitressed there in the early 80's,, was great!

[@Mitzi73]

I was there from 1988-2003. I was too young for the early years. I remember going to L’Amour on cold, frigid Saturday nights and couldn’t dress warm because it would look uncool. Then took the train back to Williamsburg where I lived. After I got married and moved to Coney Island area I went a few times with my husband and we saw Manowar (Warriors of the World era) and the club was so packed there was no oxygen. They let in too many people. I was scared for my life. I never went back after that.

[@jimmyjambhere]

i have a slayer bootleg cassette from L'mours on April 2, 1985. i have a lot of bootlegs but this is the only slayer one i have that was never pressed to vinyl or cd.

[@josephbiondi8427]

Do you have a bootleg of Death from L'amour's or Dark Angel? Or Possessed?

[@salvatorecalise9403]

I have that bootleg cassette also. We went to go see possessed and guess who came out for 3 songs?? Slayerrrrrr

[@johnconnor4040]

Ohh man, bringing me back to the great memories of being in That amazing place and my ears ringing after the shows

[@jperryfan]

Saw Gary Moore, Steve Marriott, Guns N Roses, Johnny Winter the Ramones. Ah Those were the Days.

[@adamfrost723]

my band EXE got signed there. ahh good times...

[@CarlosPerez-re6rl]

I still have stricken by might on vinyl mint condition too.

[@mr.d.572]

I definitely remember EXE. I was on Ann B's mailing list for promo records as I had a fanzine at the time. Those were fun times.

[@BernieLeone]

Brings back a lot of memories!

[@nycpunk13]

Woo Hoo! I made it on here at the end with Lisa! Saw a ton of familiar faces and cherished memories all condensed in this little clip. Thanks Ken Kriete! xoxo

[@dagony7383]

Freaking best time to be a metalhead teenager in Brooklyn and the country...never be another!!!

[@WoodNYC]

This was great Ken, thanks for putting it together!

[@rickylex2735]

wow loved this best times ever

[@gioiaferrante]

I WAS 14, BIG HAIR WAS IN, AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO A SOUL OTHER THAN WEARING LEATHER JUMPSUITS WITH A WIP AS A BELT, EVEN IN THE SUMMER WERE I MET LEMMY, WHO TOOK OVER PACMAN WITH A BOTTLE OF JACK ANYONE WANT TO GO TO THE BEST FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD? 5 DAY'S OF GREAT BANDS AND 36 THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, NEVER PROBLEMS. YES, THE BEST FESTIVAL EVERYONE SHOULD ATTEND AT LEAST ONCE IS IN SWEDEN, AND YOU MAKE SOME PRETTY GREAT FRIENDS FOR A LIFETIME. I HAVE ATTENDED THE SWEDEEN ROCK FESTIVAL FROM 92 TO DATE EVERY FRIST WEEK OF JUNE EVERY YEAR. TICKETS ARE ALWAYS ON SALE IN DEC PEACE TO ALL OF US ROCKER'S HELL YEAH, BRING FIN L'AMOR; WE NEED IT BAD AS HELL. I CAN'T BELIEVE IM IN THIS VIDEO. IM STILL TOURING AND GOING STRONG! HOW THE HELL DID I END UP IN THIS IDK BUT STILL TOURING ON THE ROAD!

[@jeorgeramirezgonzolezsanti3178]

Hit the record store on hylan Blvd on SI get tickets to the shows show up at 9 just to mosh to every song on the PA till the show started. Miss those day makes me sad my kids will never know that

[@jorgeromero1103]

This is great brings back alot of memories,only thing I spent most of my time at Lamour East in Queens

[@georgeedward1226]

It's a Bally's gym last time I looked.

[@ctfisherman]

Those were the days. Great upload.

[@frogee123]

Get off at New Utrecht station, walk to see Hades, Slayer, etc. Sooo crowded. No one's looking , reach over the first bar and grab free beers, only sixteen.The best.

[@ComedyTragedy12]

Damn I miss that time, that club. I was there for Charlotte and The Harlots!

[@josephbiondi8427]

I was there! From 01-04. That photo of Tarja (from Nightwish) was taken by me.

[@Ken-yg4um]

Wow I used to hang out there in 1988 still in high school lol.. great memories Faster pussycat, White lion, T.T Quick 😎 and fine ass women..

[@2000nycfitness]

I don't know about this bullshit song they are playing now but...I have been there many times back in the day. 2 shows I definitely remember are Slayerrrrrr coming on after the Possessed show. They borrowed their instruments and played 3 songs off their new album at the time. Jesus Saves, Angel of Death and South of Heaven. Wowwwwwwwwwwww were we surprised! Another show I remember is us booing Anthrax off the stage so Nuclear Assault (the headliner) could play! Those were the dayssssssssssssssss. Brooklyn baby!

[@reubensane5539]

I’m from Queens and then moved to L.I. But I practically lived at L’Amours! So many great shows I saw there too many to count including one of Aces first shows without makeup. Met so many great people ,so many hookups haha had so many life making memories! I believe I’m so lucky to grow up in that time . PS I might as well add some shows. Overkill,loudness,manawar ,Yngwie ,Adam Bomb,Thor,so many others lol

[@shatterstar1111]

WORKED THERE 85-89 AND ON WHITE LION'S CREW --FUCKING GREAT TIMES

[@mrsavoy66]

and now....

[@tomgiustra7087]

Wonder if you worked with my mother, Anna. She was a bartender years ago for many years. Grew up in that place lol.

[@amsedelm]

Wow, awesome. It was great but also sad to see someone who is not here with us anymore. RIP Dave.

[@josephbergamini8203]

Cheap Trick, Soft White Underbelly, UFO, The Ramones, Charlotte and the Harlots, The Plasmatics!!! What times they were!

[@KBGtone]

Saw so many metal bands there! There was a cool band from Staten Island called Deceiver!

[@jperryfan]

Lived 10 blocks away my friend John lived next door. Hung out with Lemmy. Iron Maiden. Remember new wave night on Wednesday?

[@3TVforall]

Good times & memories 🤘🏻

[@ralphclanton7771]

ZEBRA at L'amour... Those were the days

[@PaullyPorkchopsVids]

Best. Club. Ever.

[@thomasdecamillo711]

COULDA BEEN A BAR STOOL IN THAT PLACE:) WAS THERE EVERY NIGHT IT WAS OPEN... WAS IN LOVE WITH JOE KOOL THE WAITRESS,COOLEST NICEST HOTTEST METAL CHICK THAT EVER LIVED,REMEBER MOE THE BATHROOM ATTENDANT & NED THE BARTENDER,I DRANK WITH LEMMY IN THAT PLACE! HALLOWED GROUND

[@corrierune2644]

Best times! I tried to be there every weekend 85-87. If none of my friends were going my Dad would actually drop me off and pick me up outside at like 2 or 3am.

[@tonyvarriano3213]

Worked there for a few years and to think of all the great bands I saw night after night. Why the hell didnt I take pictures?

[@jgoalie13]

Thank you for posting this!

[@heathermacpherson8489]

I met my heterosexual life partner at a KIX show at L'Amour 35 years ago. Metal forever y'all!

[@PierreGarrabrant]

I remember seeing Ace There early 85 . Can of Bud was $5.25

[@richardturner643]

Ahhh, everyone pronounced the club name with an S at the end. Always made me laugh.

[@gusbreal]

Are they ever going to do a documentary on this place

[@laurasmith1550]

Laurie and Kitty Rocked L'amours!!!! TT Quick

[@MuscleSportTV]

No L'Amour compilation would be complete without a picture of Dizzy. Great stuff here. Miss that fuckin' place.

[@TheSchmed]

1:13 is Disciple, I was friends with Dave Gonzales, the guitarist

[@Ydce1891]

I should have been born ten years earlier.

[@thomasvig8573]

I miss the place. My home away from home

[@georgehahn6149]

Saw queensryche, Anthrax, White Lion and Ace Frehley their

[@TheSchmed]

One of the lucky ones to live within walking distance, a long walk back at 3AM, L’Amour and ZigZag.

[@Mitzi73]

Did you stop at the 7-11?

[@TheSchmed]

@@Mitzi73 none in Brooklyn back then

[@paul6string]

Chick at 2:28 looks like a girl Dawn I dated. She was with the singer of TNA, and one of the dudes from Trixter among others.

[@folladordeprostis]

She must be a MILF now

[@Ken-vo8ki]

My old home away from home

[@nanditeplus]

Type o negative, God forbid, October thorns...

[@Pamplemousse82322]

Saw GNR there in 87

[@tasha777]

aw man memories!!!

[@sirusyes5833]

Cool ..Warrior Soul

[@Nellsbells79]

I love ya Ken, no pics of me and Dina?

[@robin4078]

I forget what band was playing but it was March or April of 1988 and New York Magazine was there snapping hundreds of pictures. I was 17 yrs old and was there with my boyfriend. Never in a million years did I think our picture would make it into the magazine, but they wrote their article around a picture of us! lol Ours was the only picture that they used, and they even cropped it using only my side of the picture in the front of the magazine where they list the articles! lol I had no idea until my friend saw the magazine at a dentist office. She saw the article while thumbing through, then brought it to school for me the next day :) I was also there when Vixen played. The drummer threw her drumstick and I watched in slow motion as it headed towards me. It hit me about a 1/2 inch away from my right eye! The drummer looked terrified. The drumstick fell on my boots and a gazillion people scrambled for it. Thank God it didn't get me in the eye! All in all, I used to love going there, and my big hair :)

[@shellfinch6827]

I lived there, but not in video😞!

[@marcsolomon9482]

OUTSTANDING!!! Re-living ages18-20

[@phongulu]

SEDUCTIVE LUCK !!! LOUDCROWD !!!

[@rambo7117]

One question. There had to be tens of thousands of brooklynites who said on a Saturday night let's go to La balloons, no maybe muffins, no why don't we go to Lamours. Only 14 posts for Brooklyn new yorks lamours?. We can do better than that. Does anybody out there remember a club called Christopher's on Quentin Road and 35th street in marine park Brooklyn. Does anyone have a video from there?

[@littleliftera8244]

I can smell the hairspray ……

[@heelsandharleys]

I worked there for 2 years loved it, and thanks rambo717 for reminding me of Christopher's couldn't remember the name of the place. Anyone remember the Brooklyn Zoo on Sheepshead Bay Road, under the train stationlol I worked there too

[@bazookajoe6760]

lol i worked at zoo myself i think yuri and lenny owned it

[@mr.d.572]

I only got to go once back in the late 80's. Both clubs were far from me and we didn't know that the metal scene would die back then...I think we thought it would go on forever but grunge took over and now it's all salsa and really awful top 40.

[@michaelmcmanamon7201]

please open back up...any TNA footage?

[@davebile]

First pic is Bile from New York, great fuckin shot!

[@kaylaschulz8887]

lines on Snow's back

[@GavinStJohns]

What ever happened to Disciple any way...????If anybody know how I can get in touch with them please let me know...!!!

[@AJLIVENYC]

This is JoJo the drummer from Disciple

[@marcsolomon9482]

Does anyone remember CW Post College out on Long Island's metal weekends on WCWP?

[@phongulu]

Hell Yeah ! WCWP all weekend --- off to Slipped Disc Records on Monday ! Where else could you hear demos by local bands like Devias and Touch Touch ?

[@joroxstaar7204]

Holy crap! Where did you find that picture of me, Ken? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWmvf6CnoJ2Verc Even better question: Where did you find ALL of these? Damn!

[@krevice]

holy fuck!!! at 2:07...is that cronos of venom?