A Strange Undertaking

A couple of years ago, I was at a consumer electronics trade show in Denver, walking around the show floor one early Saturday morning. Standing at one of the booths was a gregarious, outgoing guy with a British accent who looked a little like this:

Actually, he looked a lot like this considering that this is a picture of the guy I met. His name tag said: Chris Huston.

There weren’t very many people around so we had the opportunity to talk quite awhile. Turns out Chris, who was working as an audio consultant for one of my clients, is a pretty famous recording engineer and producer. Over the years he’s worked with Blood, Sweat And Tears, the Nazz, the Bar-Kays, Tim Buckley and the Rascals, to name a few. He won a Grammy for engineering The World Is A Ghetto and was the engineer who worked around the challenges posed by John Bonham’s banging on Led Zeppelin II. Before he that he played guitar for the renowned Liverpool rock and roll band, the Undertakers.

But, here’s the strange think about that meeting: before we were finished he asked me, a complete stranger, to write his biography.

Hmmm…

I was a little surprised, since I was an advertising salesman at the time, but I thought it was pretty cool. In fact, I was pretty jazzed.

But, subsequent follow-ups went unanswered and, as far as I know, his biography has never been written.

So, while you listen to a couple of Undertakers cuts, I’m going to shoot him an email to see if he recalls out conversation.

You never know…

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