Jet Lag Medicine Head

"All across the country, in a thousand rented houses, sitting in small, dark rooms on broken couches covered with tapestries, are four or five friends and strangers who have gathered to listen to albums.

It is these people, for whom we create music.

When you go to see a film you are effectively allowing your consciousness to be hijacked for an hour and a half. That's the sort of experience we're trying to create with One Fine Ride. It's not the kind of music you put on while you're making dinner. It's not the kind of music you listen to on Sunday morning.

When you listen to certain albums the right way, things go by like a ride at Disneyland. If you put on headphones and close your eyes you can become immersed into a different world with characters and textures and sounds; a sonic environment with height and width and depth; a separate reality.

As artists we have complete control of this other world. And as the listener, you have to have unfailing faith that the artist is going to look out for you and take care of you."

-Rich Walkling, the Otter Farm, Maryland, 1998