John Alfred Rubey, a longtime live-events exec who was the first CEO of Fathom Events , held senior posts at AEG units and helped book the 1983 US Festival mega-concert during a nearly 50-year career, has died. He was 73.

His family confirmed the news but not provide a cause or date of death, other than to say it was recently.

Known to family and friends as Roger and “Uncle Roger,” Rubey was born on October 5, 1951, in Evergreen Park, IL. In 1977, he joined famed promoter Barry Fey’s Feyline Productions in Denver. During the next decade he rose to VP and treasurer as the company booked the legendary “Mothership” tour starring George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic along with concert jaunts by such big-name acts as The Grateful Dead, Santana and Willie Nelson.

He and Fey also booked

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