Comments on: Music Memories: Christmas Morning

By: BLL

BLL — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:19:36 +0000

Best Christmas memory was getting my first guitar along with John Denver’s Farewell Andromeda and Aerie albums from Mum and Da and getting the tab books for all his albums from my grandparents. I outgrew the half size guitar in a few years and saved to buy a Guild twelve string, which my Grandparents bough me for my 13th birthday.

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:29:22 +0000

Music played a big part of my Christmases from the time I got the John Denver and the Muppets album forward. The most memorable Christmas for me though was the year our cousin told us in advance that we were getting cross-country skis the day before. I don’t use the word gutted much, but having that surprise ruined really gutted me. I love surprises, and even though the skis are long gone, the memory remains.

I do remember my folks talking in the front seat of the car about albums they had bought for me when they thought I was asleep in the back seat during a road trip. I got Chaka Khan that year, among a few others.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:12:36 +0000

I’ve always been a big Denver Broncos fan and one year when I was little I wrote a letter to Santa asking for a bunch of Broncos stuff. The local newspaper would choose some of the letters to Santa and print them throughout the weeks leading up to Christmas. An old lady who knew my dad recognized my name and gave my dad two autographed pictures of John Elway to give to me. She wanted him to tell me they were from Santa, but he thought it was too good a story not to tell me the truth.

By: Erik North

Erik North — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:31:33 +0000

The first Christmas I can remember vividly was in 1977, when I was seven. I had gotten this elaborate Tyco race car track, with loops and curves built in, and I was playing with this constantly over the next three years. A memory like that tends to stand out, from a time when we really were worried on more common problems than all the horrors we’re faced with today.