when i started living with my grandparents......(papa & meme)....it was awsome....they got me..understood me.....even tho my meme did slip me a mickey now and then)...haha.....she would grind up a valume, and put it in my chocolate milk.......and , id nap.....how do i know this....she told me!

on my first xmas with them......i woke early, now i knew i was getting a leather jacket....i had asked for one...my papa called it, a "brando"....and i get it now....looks like the one's malon wore in all those biker flicks...anyhoo......my papa asked me to go to the studio(they had a photo/art/painting studio in there hose)..my papa worked for warner bros. and my meme was a well known oil /watercolor/ japanees rice paper artist) anyhoo.....go to the studio, and grab a canvas to put down, because my meme was gonna sketch, i was gone for mabye 10 minuets, and when i walked back in the room......there stood...towering, a "WHITE MASHALL STACK".... full stack (2 cabs, and head) anneversary sieries white(ala randy rohds)......i fell to my knees.......and......wept.....i was crying so hard, that it hurt!......they comforted me....told me everything was cool....and we all started laffing together...it took so much out of me....i sat down to gaze at my new friend......and fell asleep....when i awoke.....everything was calm....placid....and there stood the stack!

i plugged in and played, and played and played....while my papa, and my meme did there thing, papa listened to the radio(he was a radio man) and meme, sketched......i played in to the next day....relishing the tone, awstruck by its majesty!

in the end....many years later....it was stolen from my bands ehersal place....and i never ever had the heart to tell them......i got a new stack......white cabs were easy to find, but the head........fagetaboutit...

so i got a randall head/white....and to there passing day, never told them that it was stolen...i think it did as much for them.....as it did for me!

so today, xmas day......i wood like too think about my meme& papa........and the true xmas they gave me one year......this christmas was awsome....and now that i have to young sons....i understand.....that to give...is truley....better, than recivibg!

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