'The Roar of L'Amour'

THE NIGHT THERE WAS AN "EXECUTION" AT L'AMOUR

Not every story makes me look good ...

But this was funny

For a period of time at L'Amour, I had someone working the booth with me.

When I worked L'Amour East from 6/84-10/84, I worked alone.

In Brooklyn, they had a second person in the booth (prior to me) that worked with Alex and his name was Joe and he was a VJ.

I asked the club to keep him on for a few months.

I programmed the video choices, so Joe was basically an assistant, but we got along awesome and he appreciated that I asked the owners to keep him on.

One night in the booth, Joe saw a loose wire and touched it and "electrocuted" himself and hit the floor like a sack of potatoes.

I used quotation marks because when I grabbed the intercom to call the owners at the front desk, I said ... HURRY, JOE JUST EXECUTED HIMSELF ... yes, I said "EXECUTED".

George hangs up and runs through the crowd and pie-faced a bouncer (Eddie) because he was in the way and gets up to the booth in time to see Joe getting to his feet.

George yells "what the F is going on?"

I explained Joe touched the wires and "EXECUTED" himself ... (I am 0-2).

George yells ... ELECTROCUTED not EXECUTED you fn moron ...

George turns to Joe and cracks him in the face with a right hand that only a "vowel" could throw, and the poor kid is stunned and ask, "why did you hit me?"

George turned to me and asked "isn't that what you do when someone is electrocuted?"

I could not stop laughing ... between the EXECUTION and the rock-em, sock-em robots punch to the kids face, it was too much for me to contain.

George is mad and turns to us and says, "your both fn morons" and went back to the front.

Joe did nothing wrong and was punched and called a moron ...

I giggled like my best buddy Big Sal on whippets (a sight to see) for 30 minutes.

Joe went on to DJ at L'Amour East a month later.

We kept in touch and (weirdly) even had a back and forth with the same girl.

He would call me at 5am some nights to see if she was with me ... 80s was crazy.

Like I said ... not every story makes me look good.

Wait until you read the Eric Carr one

Chuck Kaye

Ah Yes Indeed

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