I bought tickets for his NYC show. It says right on the ticket "This Ticket was sold to: Richard Rubin". So I bet they will be doing some IDing at the door.

It sucks that he had to pick such smaller venues because every venue is in bed with Ticketmaster/Livenation, but it's awesome that he keeps the tickets so cheap. Seeing anything in NYC for $45 is ridiculously cheap. I just spent $120 a ticket to see Radiohead and the seats were terrible.