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Portuguese fans dressed: faces painted in black and white, wigs and even a red lipstick here and there. The Kiss has not come to Portugal since they gave the first and only concert on Portuguese soil, 35 years ago. The show on Tuesday, at the Municipal Stadium of Oeiras, was therefore a reason for celebration. And what a party: for two hours, the band of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley went through a discography full of great success, abused pyrotechnics, scenic effects and let the audience scream for more.
After a trip to Spain, where they performed at the Barcelona Rock Fest last weekend, the Americans traveled to Oeiras with another group. not less legendary, the Megadeth. With a large number of fans in Portugal, Dave Mustaine's group usually fills every room where it goes. It was like that for seven years, when he played at the Atlantic Pavilion (which has since changed names twice) with the Slayers, and all the other times they've gone. This Tuesday was no exception: Hidden among fans of painted faces, there were those who had moved to Oeiras Stadium just to see the band formed by Mustaine in 1983 after leaving the Metallica.
From the beginning, the entrance of the place posed problems, the queue arriving at the facilities of the Hospital of the Light of Oeiras and surrounding part of the stadium. The walk to the entrance was slow, and at 8:30 pm, when the Megadeth took the stage, the scenery was even worse. Result: many fans were forced to listen to the concert in front of the Estádio Municipal de Oeiras. Around 9 pm, while the show was happening at more than half of the scene, the outrage was so great that the organization was forced to open another door to the stadium. It was not worth it. The lucky ones – that is, those who were close to the new entry – still managed to catch the last songs and Encore . There was, however, someone who had not even seen a concert ten minutes ago. Some spectators with whom the observer spoke complained of having spent 50 minutes in line. Outraged, they assured them that they would complain to the prosecutor, Everything is new.
Of course, the outrage was not just a matter of wasted time. A Megadeth concert is always something to see. There are few musicians who can not feel the passing of time. Dave Mustaine is one of them. He created the Megadeth more than three decades ago – the same year that Kiss went through the Cascais Dramatic for a concert that would take others to rehearse – but the attitude remains exactly the same. The songs continue to sound as good as before (the entry of the Brazilian Kiko Loureiro to the group gave a little help) and the performances continue to be as good as before. .
No news since 2016, when the album Dystopia came out, the group alignment was filled with all the old tubes. He started with "Hangar 18", went through "The Threat Is Real" and ended with "Symphony of Destruction". All Good Things to Hear For Still played at a time when the public was more composed after opening the second door instead of access, were "Peace Sells" and "Holly" War. " The theme of Rest in Peace closes the last concert of a tour begun three years ago, after the publication of Dystopia . Now the Megadeth are getting ready to go home. And they promise to start recording a new album soon.
In the meantime after the Megadeth concert, the subject of the conversations was mainly the difficulties of entering the venue. The resentment was too much, but as Kiss approached everything was forgotten. Founded in 1973 in New York, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons' group has not been to Portugal since it was produced for the first and only time in the ancient Dramatic from Cascais 35 years ago. In addition to being the beginning of the Americans on Portuguese soil, the performance of October 1983 in Dramatic was mythical for another reason – it was the first time that the Kiss presented itself to fans without the painted face. The concert on Tuesday was therefore doubly special: for many, it was the first opportunity to see the American group live and in color; for others, the first to see them with makeup.
The concert alignment was not very different from what was presented at the last two concerts in Spain. The band started with "Duce", a song composed by bassist Gene Simmons and sung by him, and continued with "Shout It Out Loud". Always with a lot of pyrotechnics to mix. At the end of the second theme, Paul Stanley greeted "Lisbon" (no one should have told him that Oeiras was not exactly the capital) and tried to speak a little Portuguese. Recalling that it had been "a long time" since the group had walked on Portuguese soil, the singer remembered that much had changed since then. But not enough for a Kiss concert to stop being a rock'n'roll night. roll, as it had been in 1983. As they had announced at the beginning of the show, the audience wanted the best and Kiss With choreographed movements, silver decks and pyrotechnics with a lot, Kiss has crossed all the great hits over 40 years of career. There was no shortage of "I Was Made for Lovin '#," "Black Diamond" (sung by drummer Eric Singer) and "Detroit Rock City", the latter already at Still . "Rock and Roll All Nite" closed the concert, interspersed with moments of greater theatricality. The first came out after "War Machine" and some older tracks from the band's first albums: guitarist Tommy Thayer (a member of the Kiss since Ace Frehley's final release in 2002) played with a long solo served as an introduction to "Say Yeah" and the fire coming out of his guitar.
Thayer was not the only one who had a chance to shine. At the end of "Lick It Yp", Simmons, one of Kiss's most charismatic members, stood alone on stage on a ghostly green light. While he was pulling the ropes from his ax-shaped bass one after the other, fresh blood was flowing from his mouth. Transformed into a demon, the bass player took off with his bat wings and settled on a platform several meters tall to sing "God of Thunder". Closer to the end of the series, Paul Staney, who announced that he wanted to be close to the fans, slipped on a platform in the middle of the room.
Looking at the Kiss, it's hard not to say that they've already had a long career (if Mustaine's voice is no longer the same, what about it?) Stanley?), But the experience still has its advantages. During the two hours of the concert, there was not a detail that had failed, one finger apart. Of course, there are always unexpected things (the fabric with the logo, which tends to fall when the concert opens, heimou not to be stuck), but the rock'n'roll roll is anyway. Above all, Kiss knows what they do and why they do it – they like to keep the fans happy, entertain themselves, and watch them sing their songs from beginning to end. They love a great show – with pyrotechnics, confetti platforms that get up and beat bats – and that's what has always differentiated them. It was like New York in 1973, and it's like that in 2018. The scale is different, of course, but the principle is the same. For 45 years, Kiss wanted to be rock'n'rolled. roll and kings of the world. Today, they have succeeded.
Text by Rita Cipriano, photography by João Porfírio.
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