For teenagers and young college students raised in the shadow of the Oregon Country Fair, Deadheads, and a stoned, meandering groove-rock scene, this new music was 'bout the same; a near-statement that was somehow thought to say something new and different. Perhaps this delusion could be chalked up to the youngsters adoption of many of the same mind-altering pastimes of their more mossy elders.
"Panic - Making Mountains Out Of Molehills," was supposed to be a cinematic tour-de-force, writ large with a razor, peeling back the skin to peer into the delusional pseudo-spectacle of Eugene's underground music scene of the 1980's. But it's not actually ever going to be finished, so...well, that's that.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Or, as Donovan once said:
First there is a mountain then there is no mountain, then there is
First there is a mountain then there is no mountain, then there is