roadie

Example Sentences

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This team began the season with longer odds than a lobster in a restaurant tank, traveled more than a Dylan roadie, endured so many postgame ceremonies their thumbs have calluses from lifting trophies, and now, mercifully, can get some rest and their coach a cold one, their 16-0 record a sturdy case as one of the finest seasons of all time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Coined by DJ Murray the K at the onset of American Beatlemania, the term has taken on mythical status among die-hard music fans, who often bestow the title on such Beatles insiders as manager Brian Epstein, roadie Mal Evans, or musician Billy Preston.

From Salon

As the roadie puts it in “Wayne’s World 2,” “Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Thanks to the incredible cache of materials collected by Beatles roadie Mal Evans and saved from the refuse heap in 1988 by a resourceful temp, we have access to a revelatory letter from Thomas Knorr, the Association’s Vice President who had set up a subsidiary firm, Concerts International, to bring music events to the Dome when the stadium wasn’t hosting the Astros, its primary tenant.

From Salon

Oasis's first performance to feature both Gallagher brothers came at the Boardwalk nightclub in the city in 1992, after Noel joined having been a roadie for Oldham band Inspiral Carpets.

From BBC