"A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business." --The Wall Street
Journal
Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you
pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to
wait. But the on-sale date arrives, and the site is jammed. You can't
get on--and the concert is sold out in six minutes. What happened? What
now?
Music journalists Dean Budnick and Josh Baron chronicle the
behind-the-scenes history of the modern concert industry. Filled with
entertaining rock-and-roll anecdotes about The Rolling Stones, The
Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, and more--and charting the emergence of
players like Ticketmaster, StubHub, Live Nation, and Outbox--Ticket
Masters will transfix every concertgoer who wonders just where the
price of admission really goes. This edition has an updated epilogue
that covers recent industry developments.