Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

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Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Jefferson Airplane live album

Publication
(s)

April 1973

admission

24/25. August (Chicago) and 21/22. September 1972 (San Francisco)

Label (s) Grunt / RCA Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Rock , psychedelic rock

Title (number)

7th

running time

38:13

occupation

production

Jefferson Airplane

Studio (s)

Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco

chronology
Long John Silver Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Early flight

Thirty Seconds Over Winterland is the second live album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane after Bless Its Pointed Little Head . It was recorded in August 1972 at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago and in September at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The album was released in April 1973 and peaked at number 52 on the US charts.

Emergence

In June 1972 Hot Tuna , the band of airplane musicians Jorma Kaukonen , Jack Casady and Papa John Creach, released their second album First Pull Up, Then Pull Down . A month later, Jefferson Airplane released Long John Silver and toured the United States that summer. At the last concert of the tour in the winter land of San Francisco, the singer Marty Balin , who had left the band in 1971, was on stage for two songs. It was also the last concert as Jefferson Airplane, from 1974 the name Jefferson Starship was used for the then reshuffled band, it was already circulating in Paul Kantner's earlier solo projects such as Blows Against the Empire and Dragon Fly .

For Thirty Seconds Over Winterland , recordings of this tour from the Auditorium Building in Chicago and the eponymous Winterland were used. Although well-known songs by the band such as Somebody to Love , Wooden Ships , and Volunteers were played on the tour, only Crown of Creation was selected for the album from the band's psychedelic era . The song Have You Seen the Saucers , which was released as a single in 1970, should only appear on the compilation Early Flight 1974 as a studio recording on an album.

reception

For Stephen Davis of the music magazine Rolling Stone , the album shows the strengths and weaknesses of the late Airplane. He misses Marty Balin and Spencer Dryden who have dropped out, and thinks Grace Slick's performance is not as good as usual. but praises Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Papa John Creach, especially with the eleven-minute jam track Feel So Good . For Lindsay Planer from allmusic, Feel So Good is the jewel in a rather thorny rock & roll crown. Overall, the album shows the harder side of Jefferson Airplane. He gave the album four stars out of five. The German music magazine Sounds called Thirty Seconds Over Winterland a "solid rock'n'roll album" that longingly reminds you of the much better but underrated first live album Bless Its Pointed Little Head .

Title and cover

The title of the album quotes the American war film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo from 1944, which is ironically broken by the cover motif designed by Bruce Steinberg - instead of the planes of the United States Air Force seven flying toasters . In the 1990s, the Flying Toasters were one of the most famous modules of the After Dark screensaver from Berkeley Systems. In 1994 attorneys for the band sued Berkeley Systems, claiming the Flying Toasters were a copy of the album cover. The lawsuit was dismissed because Jefferson Airplane failed to trademark the toasters .

Track list

page 1

  1. Have You Seen the Saucers ( Paul Kantner ) - 4:15 (Winterland)
  2. Feel So Good ( Jorma Kaukonen ) - 11:10 (Winterland)
  3. Crown of Creation (Kantner) - 4:05 (Auditorium Theater)

Page 2

  1. When the Earth Moves Again (Kantner) - 4:05 (Auditorium Theater)
  2. Milk Train ( Grace Slick , Papa John Creach , Roger Spotts ) - 3:57 (Auditorium Theater)
  3. Trial by Fire (Kaukonen) - 5:00 (Auditorium Theater)
  4. Twilight Double Leader (Kantner) - 5:41 (Winterland)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thirty Seconds Over Winterland in the US charts on Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ a b Thirty Seconds Over Winterland on Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Thirty Seconds Over Winterland in Rolling Stone
  4. ↑ Sounds. Plates 66-77 , Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 571
  5. ↑ Another Poppin 'Fresh Lawsuit
  6. ↑ About After Dark

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