Before online presales, verified fan codes, and digital queues, you had to earn your concert tickets.

Sometimes that meant camping outside in the snow.

Max talks about waiting in line for Ozzy Osbourne tickets during the Randy Rhoads era with only a few people crazy enough to be out there. The police got called, Jim Dunn came out, and instead of just running them off, he realized they weren’t leaving.

So he opened the door and let them stay inside a small area.

That moment turned into something bigger.

Jim Dunn became one of those people who took Max under his wing. A mentor. A building guy. A ticket guy. Someone who knew the rooms, the systems, the angles, and the history behind how concerts really worked.

But mentorship only matters if you’re willing to listen.

Max listened.

From camping in the snow for Ozzy tickets to learning how buildings operated, how ticketing worked, and how the concert business moved behind the scenes, that relationship helped shape the next chapter.

Sometimes the education doesn’t start in an office.

Sometimes it starts outside in the cold, refusing to leave the ticket line.

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