Irving Azoff, CEO of Azoff MSG Entertainment, led the Pollstar panel discussion and said he was inspired to put together the talk after watching the Ticketmaster hearings on C-SPAN in January. Department of Justice, who worked on antitrust issues. Seen here during the panel titled Ticketing Real Talk: Reforms, Resolutions and Risks are, left to right, James Dolan, CEO of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Irving Azoff, CEO of Azoff MSG Entertainment, country star Garth Brooks, and Makan Delrahim, a former assistant attorney general in the U.S. Panelists included country star Garth Brooks talk during a panel at the Pollstar Live! conference in Beverly Hills on Wednesday. And Taylor Swift – and Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé and Adele and any other artists whose demand for tickets outstrips their supply – are good, no matter the craziness that occurs when their tours go on sale. The secondary market resellers such as StubHub, SeatGeek and old-school scalpers are the baddies. Here it’s fair to say the view was Ticketmaster is benign, bordering on good. Senate held hearings last month on the Taylor Swift-Ticketmaster fiasco, the consensus on Capitol Hill was overwhelmingly Taylor Swift, good, Ticketmaster, bad.īut Tuesday, during the Pollstar Live! conference for the concert and live music industry in Beverly Hills, a different picture developed during a panel that included country star Garth Brooks, long a champion of reasonable prices and fair access to tickets for his fans.

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