The historic rock band Kiss says goodbye to Belo Horizonte, Brazil with a great show at Mineirão Stadium. It was the last one, and it ended as it should, to the sound of "Rock and roll All Nite."
Forty years after a very tumultuous debut at Mineirão, Kiss made its third and final presentation in Belo Horizonte. The audience was small for the size of the band, but the crowd (14.000 attendance) responded accordingly.
After all, after 50 years on the road, the band will end its career with 250 presentations of the "End of The Road Tour," which has been touring the world since 2018.
It was the last one, and it ended as it should. A shower of confetti to the sound of "Rock and roll all nite" closed a two-hour performance by a band that came to the world to entertain.
There were balloons, a lot of fire, "flying" in the audience, and all sorts of pyrotechnics that are part of the band's history.
One of the highlights was the "flight" of the vocalist and guitarist Paul Stanley, who crossed the premium track of Mineirão to sing "Love gun" and "I was made for lovin'."
With their unmistakable makeup and high heels, both on stage and in the audience, the band entertained with their unpretentious rock.
"Belo 'Rorizonte,'" vocalist and guitarist Paul Stanley repeated tirelessly, who, with bassist Gene Simmons, is part of the founding nucleus of the band.
Simmons, 73, even swallowed fire during the performance of "I love it loud," fireworks came out of Tommy Thayer's guitar during a solo. The bassist was suspended during the performance of "God of thunder."
With many families in the audience, Kiss received in the dressing room, before the performance, Vitor de Paula Veloso, a boy who recently underwent chemotherapy. During his recovery, the boy listened to Kiss, his favorite band, nonstop.
In the audience, the black-shirted public was mostly mature. But there was also a family atmosphere. None as excited as the quartet formed by Danielle, Tatiana, and Joaquim Teixeira and Antônio Motta. All made up, just like the band.
Joaquim is only eight years old. He went with his mother and uncles to see Kiss for the second time in his life. He heard his favorite song, "Psycho Circus."
Quite a change if we remember the band's debut in June 1983 in BH. The "Knights in service to Satan," as Kiss was called by religious groups, generated protests, censorship, fights, and arrests.
Check out the setlist:
Detroit rock city
Shout it out loud
Deuce
War machine
Heaven's on fire
I love it loud
Say yeah
Cold gin
Lick it up
Makin' love
Calling Dr. Love
Psycho circus
God of thunder
Love gun
I was made for lovin' you
Black diamond
Beth
Do you love me
Rock and roll all nite