Kiss : Kiss Symphony: Alive IV

EVERYBODY'S GONNA MOVE THEIR FEET

(GET DOWN)

EVERYBODY'S GONNA LEAVE THEIR SEAT

YOU GOTTA LOSE YOUR MIND

IN DETROIT ROCK CITY

 Kiss Symphony: Alive IV

 is a 2003 

live album

 by American 

rock band

 Kiss 

performing with

 the Melbourne 

Symphony Orchestra

 (MSO). 

The arrangements 

were made by

 David Campbell, 

who also

 conducted the MSO.

 It is the group's 

fourth album 

in the 

Alive series 

and first release

 under

 Kiss Records

 and 

Sanctuary Records.

Album Information

The concert from

 which the album

 is taken featured 

original 

Kiss members 

Peter Criss, 

Paul Stanley, 

and 

Gene Simmons. 

All three appeared

 at a press conference 

announcing the show. 

"The result will be no less than

 a symphonic sonic boom,"

 promised Stanley. 

"Beethoven and Mozart 

will rise up dancing 

with fists raised

 as we unleash a spectacle

 that will be both 

classic and classical. 

This time it's black tie

 and black leather." 

Members of the 

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

 who accompanied Kiss

 during this performance 

wore Kiss makeup 

and tuxedos.

Although Stanley said, 

"We're hoping Ace 

will be at this 

spectacular concert," 

guitarist Frehley

 once again left the band. 

The show instead

 introduced new member 

Tommy Thayer

 as the "Spaceman". 

The resultant album

 was Kiss's

 last to feature Criss

 who would leave

 the band officially

 in 2004,

 to be replaced once again 

by Eric Singer. 

Singer had 

previously rejoined

 the band to

 replace Criss in 2001 

after the band's

 first Farewell Tour.

In 2000, 

Kiss had planned to release 

the original 

Alive IV 

(featuring the reunited original lineup), 

but this was nixed

 by label politics and contracts. 

The artwork was revealed 

and its version of 

"Rock and Roll All Nite" 

was added to

 The Box Set, 

but the album was shelved.

 The band moved labels

 from Universal/Island

 to Sanctuary Music 

and issued 

Kiss Symphony: Alive IV. 

The original Alive IV 

belatedly appeared

  as Alive! 

The Millennium Concert 

 in a 2006 

box set 

of all the

 Alive albums, 

Kiss Alive! 1975–2000.

10,000 limited 

numbered copies

 were released on vinyl

 in the US.

Unlike past Alive releases,

 the songs on the album 

appear in the order

 they were performed, 

with the concert split

 into three acts.

 In Act One,

 Kiss performed

 six songs by themselves.

 In Act Two,

 they performed a

 five-song acoustic set 

with the 

Melbourne Symphony Ensemble. 

Act Three

 featured the band 

and the

 full

60-piece orchestra

 on all tracks.

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