I've Looked at Law from Both Sides, Now

I really don't know law at all.

Hey all, I wrote this right after Joni Mitchell sang "Both Sides, Now" at the Grammys in February, but I only just got around to recording it and posting it on YouTube. Enjoy, and please share with the lawyers or law students in your lives!

P.S. If you want more law songs, check out my "You Don't Need a Canon" (studio version here, music video version here) and "The Ballad of FDA v. Brown & Williamson". Or, if law isn't your thing, try "Palladio Shark" or my "Sasha Reads" playlist of favorite poetry.

P.P.S. My favorite version of "Both Sides, Now" is the original Judy Collins recording, but also check out the version from the recent movie CODA (album version here, partial movie clip here). My song uses the CODA arrangement at 1.5x speed.

Comments

[Frank Drackman]

Didn't realize she was still performing, maybe she and Mick can get together. Think of "Big Yellow Taxi" every time I go by the site of a former MLB park (Atlanta Fulton right next to what used to be Turner Field, homeplate, bases, marked with steel plates, so you can pretend to be Henry A hitting 715 (and who remembers who gave up 715 Lefty (of course) Al Downing, also Afro-Amurican, not a bad pitcher, came up a top Yankees, prospect. Career 3.22 ERA average for the 70's, would get him millions today.

Frank

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

" also Afro-Amurican "

It's about time for one of the disaffected, autistic, right-wing bigots at this blog to complain that conservatives get blamed for racism when it's the liberal-libertarian mainstream that can't stop thinking about race.

Carry on, bitter clingers. So far as better Americans permit. Not a step beyond. Thank you for your continuing compliance with the preferences of your betters.

[Frank Drackman]

I was an Al Downing Fan Mo-Fo(and "Hammerin' Hank" too) and Yes, I was both a Dodgers and a Braves fan because I'm born in ATL but we lived in SoCal from 74-78, Braves weren't yet "Amurica's Team" Dodgers didn't televise home games, but all Sunday Road Games/Games in San Fran-Sissy-co were on KTTV Channel 11, and of course you could listen to the Dulcet Tones of Vince (Lefty) on KABC 790.
I'd watch the Angel's games too with Don Drysdale, but they were just the "California" Angels, not yet the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim California of Los Angeles or whatever Abortion of a name they're going by now.
Even their stadium was a copy of Chavez Ravine,

Frank

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

You are my better? In your dreams

[tuphat]

FWIW – Joni’s talent is incredible & indisputable, but as a human being … meh. For example, she bears a huge grudge against Jackson Browne, whom she briefly dated. In her song “Not to Blame,” she accuses JB of being physically abusive to then-girlfriend Daryl Hannah and also somehow complicit in the death of wife Phyllis Major some 20 years earlier. Another example: Joni has repeatedly criticized Judy Collins, maybe because it was Collins who won a Grammy for covering “Both Sides Now.” Again, FWIW.

[Frank Drackman]

So you don't "Believe the woman?"
A Rock Star being violent and misogynstic? I'm sure she's lying, just like Paula Jones, and Mary Joe Kopeckney, who made Ted Kennedy drive off a Bridge and hurt his neck diving to save her (in 8 feet of water)

Frank

[Dr. Ed 2]

I never thought that I would defend Ted Kennedy but if you are diving IN THE DARK, in a tidal pond (which means there is both a current and turbulence) that is only 8 1/2 feet deep, it is very easy to get hurt in there.

[Frank Drackman]

that's why most sober peoples and even most drunk ones would have called 9-11 (OK, 9-11 wasn't invented yet, actually first working 9-11 system was in Alabama (HT B. Conner) pretty sure there was somebody he could have called, but there would have been so many "Inconvenient" Questions

Frank

[tuphat]

I believe Daryl Hannah, who said it never happened, and the coroner's report re: Phyllis, and the lasting emotional damage Joni caused the family.

[Dilan Esper]

That's nothing. The guys and girls in Fleetwood Mac made their exes play and sing backup on their diss tracks.

[John F. Carr]

I like her song "Coyote" about being the other other woman of a married man. I've assumed she was into the "pills and powders" mentioned in the song.

[Shamie Ervin iv]

You and your brother are super cool. I'm 80 and retired so I'm licensed to say this. Thanks for the diversion from my rainy day.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

"You and your brother are super cool."

Did you check that point with UCLA, Northwestern, and who knows how many other legitimate schools?

[DaveM]

Very entertaining! Much better than Nina Jankowicz.

[Frank Drackman]

I hear they make the Terrorists at Git-mo watch that Video. I'd rather get the Jab.

[JoeFromtheBronx]

He's pretty good but she's not bad at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg

Plus back in the day ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_jzaKpPD0

[shg]

Well done, Sasha. Thank you for the smile.

[tkamenick]

I really enjoyed that, thanks!

[Paladin_44]

Missing your poetry recitations Sasha...

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

Joni Mitchell very much disliked Judy Collins' version, although it was never clear to me why, exactly.

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

The voice...Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower has the same story...the song needed muscle and Bob couldn't deliver