Rumor has it that Douglas Merrill will be joining beleaguered EMI.
Who’s Douglas Merrill?
Google engineer. Smart. Geek.
He’s also a Nine Inch Nails fan, which is interesting. So is this.
While Griffin and WMG are hawking the ISP as hostage scenario, it will be interesting to see what Dr. Merrill cooks up with Guy Hands.
Doug Morris’ now famous quote in Wired last November is, “There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist.”
Let’s hope he’s finally wrong. Good luck, Douglas.
June 9, 2008 at 4:01 pm |
[...] neither buy nor hear much new music.” I thought it was a good thing when Guy Hands and EMI hired Douglas Merrill. It makes sense to get someone who really gets technology involved in the label. But Cory Ondrejka, [...]