Nice bit of Christmas cheer Bill. Wish I'd have thought to look here last week, would have sent it around to some friends.
Dad gave me my first guitar at Christmas time, either '66 or '67, a Silvertone acoustic which I still own. He had been very ill for probably a couple weeks, and may have even thought he wouldn't make it. Called me into his room and told me to look in the closet. And there it was. I guess he'd noticed I was spending time at a nearby friend's, who had an electric. And he probably regretted it later when I was making all that awful racket on my own electric, a Decca.
But I'll certainly always remember that Christmas, all those years back. Good times.
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