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Deadhead

An employee of a transportation company who travels for free in order to return home or arrive at his next assignment.
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In other places, Malvinni uses the colloquial language of Deadheads rather than the precise language of music analysis.
Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation
When you pick a rose or deadhead, you want to cut back to just above a five-section leaf for best bloom.
Picking for perfection: deadheading increases production and improves the picture
He's also a Deadhead and knows more about what we've done than I do.
Andrew Cowan's Big World of Rock: Hippies are coming to town
Over the years, the Deadhead scene grew slowly and steadily, with the band moving from clubs and theaters to arenas, never losing momentum even as they were written off by the press as irrelevant relics.
Come hear Uncle Sam's band: the hippie capitalism of the Grateful Dead
The bands played their own music, and a lot of the Deadheads were not psyched about that, because they came just wanting to hear Dead music.
THE DEAD IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE, THANK YOU
The folks at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge encourage healthy growth by cutting back blooms or deadheads to a stronger point on the stem, Dardick says.
GARDENING BELLFLOWERS - WHAT A SIGHT!
But saving the city would cost money and require providing services to the neighborhoods, which means city workers can't continue ripping off every tax dollar, would have to work far more efficiently and agree to work rules that got rid of deadheads.
EDITORIAL OATH FOR OFFICE
The more boats that have deadheads are better for me, because people don't like them and they know I don't carry them.
JACKPOT HUSTLERS: BUYER BEWARE: THOSE WHO DON'T PAY BOAT FARES ARE AIMING TO SWINDLE YOUR WAGERS
Carrying blankets, coolers and their children, these Deadheads - as loyal Grateful Dead fans are known - danced and relaxed in the sun as seven different bands played Grateful Dead covers throughout the day.
DEADHEADS BRING GARCIA BACK TO LIFE
Farther on is a percussion orchestra, a ragtag collection of street kids and Deadheads.
PORTLAND'S MUSIC SCENE STRIKES HAPPY CHORD WITH TOURISTS
There are scores of Dead Web sites, but your first stop should be the Official Grateful Dead Page, a cosmic, all-encompassing spot where you'll find links to such Deadspots as lyricist Robert Hunter's home page, featuring many of his nonlyric scribblings; the Dead File, a mountain of e-mail correspondences from the legion of Deadheads throughout the world, plus archives of Dead newsletters dating all the way back to '71 and the advent of the Heads; a catalog of Dick's Picks, a series of six (so far) collections of live Dead shows put together by the band's vault archivist Dick Latvala; and spots where you'll find other news about the band and its far-flung members.
FULL-ON FANS FIND GRATEFUL DEAD ALIVE AND ARCHIVED ON THE WEB : B&B IN THE USA
Deadheads - the appellation affixed to the band's faithful camp followers who composed the traveling carnival that set up shop at every Dead concert - and others in the rock music universe were shaken to the core by Garcia's fatal heart attack last year at 53.
GRATEFUL DEAD REVISITED : FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF GARCIA'S DEATH HAS SOME SAYING IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON
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