Artists don't work with the ticket salesmen, the venues do. This is an important distinction because there's a lot of places in the US where you aren't going to

Artists don't work with the ticket salesmen, the venues do. This is an important distinction because there's a lot of places in the US where you aren't going to have much luck finding a moderate-to-large scale venue for an event that aren't associated with one of these scummy ticket sales companies.