Posts By Damon Orion
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A&E
Hell’s Angel
For an accused Devil worshipper, AFI’s Davey Havok is a damned nice guy
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A&E
The Tao of Steve
Pondering the paradox of the rock virtuoso with guitar legend Steve Vai
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Wellness
Soul Man
Ram Dass shines a light on attachment, psychedelic drugs, out-of-body experiences, the ’60s revolution and more.
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Cover Stories
Beck to the Future
In celebration of Beck’s solo acoustic show at The Rio, GT explores Song Reader, the alternative rock icon’s most ambitious interactive art...
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A&E
UnderWorld Beat
Celebrating world culture and exorcising demons with Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry
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Music
Fringe Folk
Janis Ian: still a voice for the marginalized
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Wellness
Kundalini Rising
A local devotional singer and her yogi parents are raising consciousness and making miracles happen.
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Music
Sliding Doors
The Doors’ Ray Manzarek and slide guitar virtuoso Roy Rogers on performing, grasping the infinite moment and teaching Jim Morrison to sing
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Columns
Here Comes the Sun King
The final weeks of 2012 bring us the release of The Hobbit, the end of the Mayan calendar and the world’s first...
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A&E
Still Smokin’
You don’t have to be high to appreciate High On Fire’s music…but it helps
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Music
Alternative Energy
GT gets a shot in the arm from Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction
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A&E
The Art of Awareness
A community of local visionary artists is making higher consciousness visible
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Music
Turning the Tables
Cheb i Sabbah has the vinyl solution to global turmoil
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A&E
Frizzle Fried
Playing in Primus has twisted Larry LaLonde’s mind for good
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Music
Dead Men Rocking
Weekend after weekend, the salty air of Beach Street fills with the screams of Boardwalk patrons on mechanical thrill rides. Folks from...
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Features
The Durbinator
With ‘American Idol’ behind him and a hot new debut album, James Durbin talks candidly about the power of belief, life before...
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Music
Hey, Hey, We’re the Pixies
Pixies’ Joey Santiago on the making of an alt-rock classic
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A&E
The World Accordion to Al
He’s lampooned hernias, morbid obesity and surgical catastrophies. Now Weird Al shows us the lighter side of the apocalypse.
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Columns
Altered Statesman
Local psychedelic visionary David Jay Brown has peered deeply into the nature of human awareness, bonded with the greatest thinkers of our...
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A&E
Batman Returns
Dark entries from the Gothfather himself, Peter Murphy
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Wellness
Herbal Outfitters
Quirky new downtown shop dispenses natural highs
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Stage
The Doobie Brothers
Burning questions for the crown princes of cannabis, Cheech & Chong
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Stage
Think Fast
Paula Poundstone brings her quick wit to The Rio.
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Wellness
Everything’s ZEN
Long before Umi was a Zen master in the Santa Cruz Mountains, he was a seafaring rock radio pioneer who riled the...
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Music
I Gotta Feeling
When your internal DJ won’t stop playing an infuriatingly catchy song, you’ve got yourself an earworm. Our intrepid reporter dissects the tunes...
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Music
They Might Be Giants’ Puppet Talk
They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh on living with a split personality
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Columns
2012
Why are we so fascinated with the end of the world?
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Music
The Mob Rules
The Glitch Mob’s Justin Boreta lives up to his band’s name in a bug-riddled phone chat
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News
Dropping Some Science
Local nonprofit MAPS makes history with hit conference on psychedelic science
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Music
Metal Machine Music
Pat Metheny’s robot band rocks the Civic
