The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.
Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
When you make a great record, it's around forever.
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!
It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
Do not think about records, because one day, they will break.