Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

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Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
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Live album by
Jefferson Airplane
ReleasedApril 1973
RecordedAugust 24–25, 1972 Chicago Auditorium, Chicago, September 21–22, 1972 Winterland Arena, San Francisco
Genre Rock
Length38:13
Label Grunt/RCA Records
Producer Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane chronology
Long John Silver
(1972)		Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
(1973)		 Early Flight
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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Thirty Seconds Over Winterland is an album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was recorded live in August and September 1972, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. It was released in April 1973; reflecting the band's declining commercial stature, it only peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard chart. [1]

Contents

Recorded during the Long John Silver tour, Thirty Seconds Over Winterland was the band's second live album, after Bless Its Pointed Little Head . The complete final concert of this tour may be heard on the Last Flight CD, released in 2007.

Flying Toasters lawsuit

In 1989, software company Berkeley Systems released its immensely popular After Dark screensaver. The best-known of the various screensaver options was Flying Toasters. [4] [5] Jefferson Airplane sued Berkeley Systems in 1994, claiming that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the Thirty Seconds album cover. [6] The band's case was lost because Berkeley claimed no prior knowledge of the artwork, jacket cover art work had to be registered separately from the sound recording, and the judge noted the band had failed to trademark the cover art. [7] [8] [9]

Track listing

Track times from original vinyl release. [10]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Have You Seen the Saucers?" (recorded September 21 at Winterland) Paul Kantner 4:15
2."Feel So Good" (recorded September 22 at Winterland) Jorma Kaukonen 11:10
3."Crown of Creation" (recorded August 25 at Chicago Auditorium)Kantner4:05
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."When the Earth Moves Again" (recorded August 25 at Chicago Auditorium)Kantner4:05
2."Milk Train" (recorded August 25 at Chicago Auditorium) Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, Roger Spotts3:57
3."Trial by Fire" (recorded August 24 at Chicago Auditorium)Kaukonen5:00
4."Twilight Double Leader" (recorded September 21 at Winterland)Kantner5:41
CD Reissue Bonus Tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wooden Ships"Kantner, David Crosby, Stephen Stills 6:37
2."Long John Silver"Grace Slick, Jack Casady 5:32
3."Come Back Baby" 7:08
4."Lawman"Slick3:14
5."Diana / Volunteers"Kantner, Slick / Marty Balin, Kantner6:06

Personnel

Personnel credits from original vinyl release. [10]

Jefferson Airplane

Production

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [11] 52

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  8. ↑ "In Jefferson Airplane v. Berkeley Systems, Inc., 32 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1632 (N.D. Cal. 1994), the district court deferred to Office registration regulations and practices presented by then-music examiner Marybeth Peters. The court held that a pre-1978 registration for a sound recording does not cover artwork on the album cover. Under practices governing sound recordings registered under the 1909 Act, jacket cover art work had to be registered separately from the sound recording, and the court was unwilling to rule that a Class N registration covered all the copyrightable authorship owned by the plaintiff." page 14, 98th ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS For the fiscal year ending September 30 1995 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / WASHINGTON, D.C. / 1996
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  10. 1 2 Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (Vinyl back). Jefferson Airplane. New York City: RCA. 1973. BFL1-0147.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  11. ↑ "Jefferson Airplane Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
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