Nobody Flashes: What a Fool Believes
Nobody Flashes
This is one of my favorite songs. I can’t for the life of me figure out what it’s about…something about he was in love with someone long ago and THINKS she still loves him, but she really doesn’t…I don’t know. You tell me.
Mike is from Ferguson, MO. Yes THAT Ferguson. I used to go see him in his first band here in St. Louis when I was 16, in a club called THE CASTAWAYS. And I played in bands with many of the musicians that he grew up playing with.
That’s how long he’s been singing. He didn’t play piano then, he was the lead singer of the Sheratons. He left this town and went on to the Doobie Brothers and the rest is history.
The neighborhood where he grew up is very pretty. Almost plantation looking houses.
I love his voice. It’s almost painful to watch him sing, but there it is.
The piano and bass lines on this is so…original. That man can SING.
Mike…IS an original. Showing that good things did come out of Ferguson. And this version is…one I just saw.
Enjoy.
Should Robert Downey Jr. Apologize for HIS Black face?
Nobody Flashes
If you are an ACTOR, then it’s okay to wear blackface. Here Robert Downey Jr. not only went blackface, he had the whole black man thing down pat.
Back then, everybody thought it was funny. (Although the movie had a LOT of cussing in it.)
This whole black face farce is ridiculous. What about when Whoopi played an old white man?
Every culture has its proclivities, it’s very real customs, and ways of talking. Actually, making fun of other cultures made us all laugh, and once upon a time, an Italian could work with an Irishman, make fun of each other and it was NOT taken so seriously.
Back then, we didn’t have politicians trying to divide us all. We were ALL….Americans. Mutts one and all and everybody knew it.
You won’t hear anybody remember THIS movie, or ask Robert Downey Jr. to recant his ‘insulting’ racist performance.
One thing you do have to admit…he did fine job.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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