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What's the best Christmas present you've ever had?


LarryUK

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My lefty 1980 wine red Les Paul Custom. My dad had to drive thru a snowstorm to pick it up at the UPS depot because it wasn't going to make it to the house for regular delivery before Christmas. I still have it. In fact, I'll have to be buried with it 'cause I'll never sell it....especially since dad passed away 6 years ago.

Wish I had the $$$ to send it to Gibson Repair and Restoration because I've been playing it hard and putting it up wet for 32 years now!!! Maybe someday. Rich

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Well, the "best" musical Christmas gift, I ever got, was in 1965.

I woke up, my Mom and I exchanged gifts, and when that was over,

she smiled at me, and said: "There's one more gift, I have for you,

but it's out in the car. Can you go get it, as it's too big, for

me to carry?!" Obviously, I agreed...all the while wondering what

the "Heck," it could be. She told me, it was in the trunk ("boot")

of the car. When I opened the trunk, I saw exactly why she couldn't

have lifted it out, and brought it in, the night before. It was a

brand new (1964) Fender Twin Reverb (Blackface)...which she had been

making payments on, all the previous year (unknown to me, of course)!

(She was working 2 jobs, and going to College at night, at that time.)

I was both speechless, and had tears rolling down my face, at the

same time. She (absolutely) spoiled me rotten, but with such love,

no one could fault her, for it. I only wish now, I still had it!

But, it was traded in, 3 years later, on a Vox Super Beatle Amp.

(Wish I still had that, as well!..LOL)

 

CB

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