A Conversation with Swan Dive (continued)

PM: What are the U.S. plans for William & Marlys?

MF: [laughs] We're going to--

BD: We're thinking of a very large pit that we're going to--

[laughter]

MF: We're going to print our own copies and have a different cover. I think we're going to sell it at CD Baby. But we haven't given it to anybody [any labels] yet, in the U.S., to listen to.

PM: So how should we direct our readers who want to get a copy of this?

BD: To our website. [www.swandive.org]

MF: Either come to our shows or go to the website.

BD: And they can just mail order it from us--because it's available on Amazon, but it's $38.99.

PM: Oh, my lord!

BD: Well, it's just the tax.

PM: The import price, yeah.

BD: Plus the retail price for CDs in Japan is like $26.99.

PM: Crazy, daddy.

BD: I know. But an apple costs ten dollars there.

PM: Right.

MF: I saw a copy of Circle for $45 online. I thought, "If you just wrote to us--"

PM: "--we'd send you three."

[laughter]

BD: That's right.

MF: Yeah, so we're going to do something. At some point I guess we'll give it to someone to listen to. But we are going to print some more copies so that we don't have to buy them from the Japanese label, because they're expensive.

PM: I wonder, since there is no U.S. deal, maybe you'll let us, instead of doing a customary one-minute clip or something, maybe we'll be able to stream a whole song or something.

BD: Oh, sure.

PM: Because I think that's a much more satisfying experience than getting only verse and a chorus of something, as if one were a publisher instead of a music listener.

BD: You might to mention, too, there's a European version that's forthcoming, supposedly in March. And it will have different artwork.

PM: Oh, that's the Siesta release.

BD: Siesta, yeah.

PM: Right, the Spanish one. So that'll be available to our readers in Europe. Yeah, God bless Siesta. I mean, they came up with the dough to make this record.

MF: Right, they sure did.

PM: We're big in their corner, and we thank them very much.

MF: Yes.

PM: So Bill, you're a crack journalist interviewer. Is there something I should have asked that just slipped my mind, or something you'd like to add?

MF: When are you going to start your show?

PM: The TV show, Puremusic TV?

MF: Yes. It needs to be.

PM: We're not dead, yet. It'll be on the Internet.

MF: You've got to do that.

PM: Okay. It's a date.

BD: Thank you!

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