Letters

To Paul and Gene. There is a big country in South America called Brasil ,that you know very well, but perhaps you dont know how Kiss changed the face of a generation during an important time of transition to democracy in our country.
From 1981 to85 the whole country went to the streets asking for the end of the military regime, we wanted democracy,we wanted to vote,we wanted to open the country to the rest of the world.
Rocknroll during the military regime was very marginal.We never had a major rock concert in the country til 1983...
The album was Creatures of the night, and it hit the stores together with the shows schedule in Sao Paulo,Rio,Belo Horizonte.The country was taken by storm.Kids would go nuts just looking at the cover of the album.The video from I love it loud start playing on tv late at night.Kids would stay til late to see it, and comment in school the day after. But the military and religious conservatives started a campaing against the realization of the concert. They will put parents on panic giving away flyers in schools and universyties saying that Kiss were massengers of evil and that a great catastrofy would happen to those who attent.K ids In S atans S ervice it was writen.Animal sacrifices onstage....very bizzare.You please have to consider that our country got the 1st major rock concert with Kiss...no less.The looks,the performence would scare your parents much more than any other band at the time.I dont think that Cheap Trick would have the same problem if they were playing here at the time.They tryed to put a lot of pressure in the kids, and I know for a fact that thousands of those kids attended that concert without their parents permission (including me).
The Kiss concerts in Brasil 1983 were a experience that nobody will ever forget.With the unique formation of Gene,Paul,Vinnie Vicent and Eric Carr that had his drumkit on the top of a War Cannon That fires during his solo.Blood spitting,pirotecnics,Paul destroying a guitar...we got out of that stadium without knowing what hit us,we felt like rockroll superheros.The show was a celebration of rock and peace.In one of the Kiss videos,Paul refers to this concerts as the biggest crownd Kiss ever got, 150 000 in Maracana stadium in Rio and 100 000 plus in Sao paulo just to see Kiss.
Well ,to finish the story,after that concert,Brasil became a part of the international tours of the greatest rocknroll bands and also, other styles too.Big festivals started to be organized like the first Rock in Rio in 85 with Ozzy,Iron,Whitesnake and others.The same year we elected our first president.We are know today as a warm and very intense audience that caused even the release of DVDs from major international bands live in BRASIL.
THANK YOU KISS FOR BREAKING OUR SEAL AND PUT US ON THE MAP OF
ROCKNROLL.THAT CONCERT CHANGED THE WAY WE SEE ENTERTAINMENT FOREVER TURNING BRASIL A ROCKNROLL COUNTRY.

Um Abraco
Alex
KISS FAN since 1983.
Thank you Kiss