Well, here we are, kiddies, enjoying (enduring) the onslaught of all-the-time, all-over-the-place Christmas music. Before you label me a Scrooge (or even a Grinch, given the color with which I have chosen to make my point), think about this.....There are stations (radio, mind you, not satellite) that broadcast all-Christmas, all-the-time melodies from Thanksgiving day right straight to the end of the year.

Make no mistake. I love holiday music as much as the next person, but I distinctly remember a time when Christmas music was something really special, a treat that a person could hear only a couple weeks out of the whole year. A generation ago, one might have a hard time finding Christmas decorations and gift ideas before Thanksgiving, let alone before Halloween or even (*GASP*) LABOR DAY. It is so hard to get in the mood, even with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" playing full blast in a department store while going through racks of reduced bikinis at a season-end sale.

So, what say you? Do you enjoy holiday music constantly for over a month's time? Are you sick and tired of it all by the time Christmas rolls around, only to eagerly anticipate its return by the "Ember months" of the next year? Or does it brighten your mood, make you more jolly as you bake those Christmas cookies? Do you leave the satellite (or XM or whatever other media of your choice) on the "Holly" station, or Christmas 24-7 station, enjoying the choruses you just can't get enough of? Do you feel like I do?

Well, that just made the segue into this posting's vids a little bit easier, don't you think? If you are looking for a break from all the holiday madness, and can't bear to hear one more Christmas tune.....then I'm your chick. It would be too depressing to put any Christmas songs on my blog; why beat a dead horse? Instead, I have dug up some tasty live Rush to remind you all just what the spirit of radio is all about. Enjoy this performance; I can tell you from personal experience that they can and do blow the roof off any venue they play in. And, just for the heck of it, enjoy some smokin' Frampton, and tell me, "Do You Feel Like I Do?"

So, looking back at my crabbiness directed toward all the innocent Christmas tunes out there invading all our airwaves, I have decided that perhaps I should eat a bit of HUMBLE PIE. And before you ask, no, I am not feverish. "I Don't Need No Doctor", in other words. And so completes my anti-holiday music holy trinity. Hope you had as much fun as I did......