Music On Long Island - Venues: H

Located in West Islip, Hammerheads regularly featured Long Island artists and national headliners in the 1980s. It reportedly featured" two stages and two giant bars set up like old sailing ships." It became Chevy's in the early 1990s and the club was later knocked down, becoming a parking lot.

Among the notable talent who performed at Hammerheads include The Ramones, Twisted Sister, Rick Derringer, Mott The Hoople's Ian Hunter, Zebra, Blue Oyster Cult, Jorma Kaukonen, Rat Race Choir, and The Pretenders.

Then-upcoming concerts at Hammerheads:

Ticket stub for Hammerheads:

Sources:

https://www.setlist.fm/venue/hammerheads-west-islip-ny-usa-6bd2fea2.html

https://www.facebook.com/LongIslandCom/posts/who-remembers-hammerheads-in-west-isliptwisted-sister-tickets-were-a-dollar-in-1/3236925739655254

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEUvfy4N5fE/?img_index=1

https://www.facebook.com/102.3WBAB/posts/hammerheads-in-west-islip-now-a-parking-lot-and-a-closing-bobs-stores-was-the-ho/936287955181458

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/heavy-metal-long-island-twisted-sister-u48270

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/07/archives/long-island-opinion-the-cradle-for-a-certain-kind-of-rock-scene-the.html

https://www.city-data.com/forum/long-island/458734-rock-clubs-80s-long-island-6.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy87deZiZo4

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ramones/1982/hammerheads-west-islip-ny-3bc91044.html

Researched by Darren Paltrowitz on April 13, 2025.