From The Desk Of... Rick Mueller

PRESIDENT OF NORTH AMERICA AEG PRESENTS WHETHER HE'S building live-music clubs and theaters or renovating them, Rick Mueller abides by a simple rule for his complex job: "The best venues bring out the best in the fans and the best in the band." Among them are those owned and operated by The Bowery Presents, a collection of destination plays such as Brooklyn Steel and Forest Hills Stadium in New York and a series of newly opened clubs in Boston, Denver, Atlanta and Cincinnati. When I first started in this business at Bill Graham Presents, Detroit was this crazy, huge, late-selling market and would do thousands of tickets week of show at some of the amphitheater properties. A lot of people had sold tickets at a different kind of ticket price before the pandemic and made their budgets on one set of dynamics.