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SL: We've already put out two albums and we have a third one done. (Editor's note: The band has only released one album, so Sean may be referring to the label and not the band here.) I don't know how much more prolific we could be. We could actually put out the new album that we have, but we think it would be overkill. It was going to be released in the spring.

CKM: The truth is that this is the first year that we've actually been serious about the band. It's been a honeymoon before that of writing a lot of songs but not putting them out or recording them seriously. We have hundreds of songs that we've written, but this is the first time that we've been recording or performing. He's been focused on his mom's new album that we put out and touring that.

SL: I also put out a solo album. Building Chimera the label took a year, at least. We do it in spells — one week here and one week there. The last two months is the longest that we've focused on the band, ever.

So, the band is becoming a priority at this point?

SL: We're trying to make it that, but there are always things that are pulling us in different directions. Charlotte has a modeling job tomorrow. My mom is wanting me to organize another Plastic Ono Band show next year, which is great. We both have a lot of other work to do, so it's hard to find time to do everything.

The album that you have finished, is that an electric album?

SL: Yeah, it's an electric album. We are going to go back and re-open it up. It's not really finished anymore. We just felt that the acoustic tour was so much fun, Charlotte and I felt like we wanted to do that more.

CKM: We just got off of an electric tour and you really don't wrap your mind around your own music until you've played it live for audiences on tour. We have all of these new ideas for recording techniques and sounds and melodies. We were almost completely done with the electric record, but it's like a can of worms. We have all these fresh ideas from the tour that we want to do with it. We're going to take our time with it and craft it and maybe put it out in the summer or fall.

Do you plan to keep it going in both acoustic and electric formats as the band progresses forward or just see how it goes?

CKM: We can always dismantle and go on tour with just an accordion and a guitar or go with the real band. It depends how successful we are. We're doing the acoustic tour because we haven't worked our way up to be able to afford a full band. So, it's kind of a luxury for us to have a keyboardist and a drummer. Maybe one day we'll have a string player or something.

SL: Now we have a label, so we have lots of different bands and lots of different projects. We really need to make the most of every tour and everything we do. We just did an electric tour but we didn't have any crew or techs. It's been really one step at a time. Luckily we had more people coming out to our headlining shows than we expected. Hopefully by next year we'll be able to upgrade a little bit.

Let me thank you both for your time. I look forward to the show. Sean, in closing I wanted to ask — and not to get too personal — but with the recent anniversary that passed on Dec. 8 (marking the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death), so many people were posting John Lennon videos and Beatles videos and all of these things all over Facebook and the Internet. I don't want to ask what you did on that day, but wondered if you recognize what all of these fans do in recognition of your dad and what does it mean to you?

SL: It was actually really nice. I was playing a show in Orleans that night in France. I was very far from the Western world as far as I knew it. I just felt far from home. I called mom who was in Tokyo doing a concert to celebrate my dad and she had just walked in from finishing. I caught her just as she was walking in, the moment before Charlotte and I had to go on stage. I just managed to talk with her for a minute and see how the concert went. That's essentially what I do every year. This was a bigger year though because I received thousands of letters on Twitter and I just Tweeted something saying thank you for remembering. That's basically it. It was the same as usual except for this time I got to communicate with a broader audience because of — because more people were paying attention, but also because of the technology of Twitter and stuff. It was nice.