“If you wonder why you’re paying ten times as much for overblown, cross-promoted spectacles that are one-tenth as satisfying as the rock and roll of your youth, you need to read this book.” — Wired

“Ticket Masters manages to cover 40 years of the concert business and tell a series of complicated, interlocking business stories with the speed and clarity of a thriller. Reading this book won’t make you any happier about spending four hundred bucks to go to a rock show, but you’ll understand how it happened and who’s to blame.” — Bill Flanagan, Executive Vice-President and Editorial Director of MTV Networks, and author of Evening’s Empire and A&R

“Dean Budnick and Josh Baron brilliantly chronicle the storied history of ticketing, providing a front row seat to the back room drama. A must-read for any music business enthusiast.” — The Hollywood Reporter

“As sales of recorded music plummet, live shows are supposed to save the music industry. Maybe so. But who will save the fans — beleaguered by scalpers, high ticket prices, and insane ‘service’ fees? Budnick and Baron explain how we got to this sorry pass, and what will have to happen before we get through it. Music lovers both, they’re on the side of concert goers, who pay the bills and deserve more for their dollar and devotion.” — Rolling Stone

“For anyone who’s ever suffered rock concert sticker shock — and we all have — Dean Budnick and Josh Baron’s Ticket Masters is the best seat in the house to the show behind the show: and inside look at those inexhaustible high-wire artists, corporate jugglers, and ringmasters who are always chasing one more deal, one more concession, one more buck in the empire burlesque that is the multi-billion-dollar rock concert business.” — Fred Goodman, author of Fortune’s Fool and The Mansion on the Hill