A New iPad App Featuring The Doors Designed by an 81 Year-Old Record Mogul
Jac Holzman is one of the most interesting characters I’ve ever interviewed. As the founder of Elektra Records, he was able to bring some fascinating new music to the masses, including The Doors, whom he signed in 1966.
Jac is now 81 but he’s still got an insatiable curiosity for all things music. He’s just finished designing a new iPad app about The Doors. From the New York Times:
A new iPad app chronicling the rock legends the Doors has all the bells and whistles you would expect of electronic entertainment in 2013: immersive multimedia, cloud integration with iTunes, a ready connection to Facebook. The driving force behind it, however, is no 20-something Silicon Valley consultant. It is the 81-year-old Jac Holzman, who started Elektra Records as a teenager in 1950 and remains one of the music industry’s most passionate and punctilious tech nuts.
“I’m always interested in how I can take technology and make it work for music,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s what my life’s been about, from the earliest days of Elektra. How can we make better records? Not everybody’s going to appreciate everything that’s in this app, but I think most people will.”
