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Great Tickets on Stubhub to Sold Out Steely Dan Concert

Last weekend, I saw Donald Fagan, Walter Becker, Jon Herington, Freddie Washington, Keith Carlock, Walt Weiskopf and the half a dozen other world class musicians that make up Steely Dan rock the Tweeter Center in Mansfield Massachusetts.

The Tweeter Center holds more than 7,000 people and it was filled past capacity.  Folks were camping on the lawn outside in the rain just to hear them play.  Besides being one of the 6 people in the audience under the age of 30 and having to endure the slow version of “Dirty Work” which was a little too cheesy the whole experience was fantastic.  My roommate bought the tickets on Stubhub for $80 and we were about 5 rows behind the box seats that go for much much more.  I highly recommend catching Steely Dan if you get a chance to see the end of the tour.  Tickets on Stubhub start at $25.

Sold Out Concert Tickets: What’s the hubbub at StubHub?

What’s all the hubbub about sold out concert tickets?

Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are still rocking 25 years later and will be gracing North American stages this fall in The Who’s long-awaited reunion tour. And the Rolling Stones are hitting the road again with Mick Jagger and the boys bringing 40 years worth of amazing music with them. But then you hear they’ve “sold out!”

If you’ve ever planned on seeing a concert, you’ve probably realized that there’s one detail above all others that is quite challenging – getting tickets. Concerts featuring bands with large followings usually sell out within minutes, and if you haven’t camped outside an outlet to get tickets, you are more often than not left out in the cold.

That’s why we’ve launched this concert tickets blog to give you and other fans, buddies, couples, families and rockers the latest news and information about concert ticket sales.

Who are we? According to William Grimes of The New York Times, “To anyone surfing the Web, StubHub looks like a ticket brokerage. It’s not. The company, founded (in 2000) by a couple of Stanford Business School students, is a kind of stock market where the only shares traded are tickets to live events….Buyers and sellers mingle in the marketplace and, through free negotiation, arrive at a price that reflects the true value of a commodity.”

Now that we’ve disclosed our transparent biases, may we offer a suggestion? If you want to buy sold out concert tickets, it would be wise to purchase them as soon as possible. Last weekend, ticket prices for The Who ranged from $50 to $7,201, while ticket prices for The Rolling Stones ranged from $45 to $37,648. And the best tickets will go faster than you can sing “Pinball Wizard” or “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”