News Archive April 2009
From: Eltiempo
by Carlos Solano translated by Jill Cataldo
Posted: April 13, 2009
With unlimited theatrics, fireworks and a spectacle difficult to forget, the American band performed for the public, a majority of which rendered tribute to them with their own painted faces.
Under a torrential heavy shower, KISS opened the rock celebration at 8 p.m. with Deuce. A 40-meter flag of Colombia that had the four faces of the band painted on it ('The Demon' , 'Spaceman' , 'Catman' and 'Starchild') began to wave over head of the spectators.
"The rain doesn't bother me," Paul Stanley said, and the thousands of rain-soaked attendees at Simon Bolivar Park enjoyed the concert of this legendary quartet of rock.
Stanley improvised fragments in Spanish of "Guantanamera" and "Cucurrucucu paloma."
Before the New York band even took the stage, the crowd mulled with expectation and speculation over one piece of equipment: a pulley that extended from a platform to the central sound tower over the public promised to hold great surprises.
With this pulley, Stanley would fly over spectators, which he has done in numerous concert locations all over in the world. In the middle of a confetti spectacle, Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer played the final song of the concert.
