Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

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]

Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Live album by Jefferson Airplane
Released	April 1973
Recorded	August 24–25, 1972 Chicago Auditorium, Chicago, September 21–22, 1972 Winterland Arena, San Francisco
Genre	Rock
Length	38:13
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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

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.	Title	Writer(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)	Kantner	4:05

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When the Earth Moves Again" (recorded August 25 at Chicago Auditorium)	Kantner	4:05
2.	"Milk Train" (recorded August 25 at Chicago Auditorium)	Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, Roger Spotts	3:57
3.	"Trial by Fire" (recorded August 24 at Chicago Auditorium)	Kaukonen	5:00
4.	"Twilight Double Leader" (recorded September 21 at Winterland)	Kantner	5:41

CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

No.	Title	Writer(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"	Slick	3:14
5.	"Diana / Volunteers"	Kantner, Slick / Marty Balin, Kantner	6:06

Personnel

Personnel credits from original vinyl release.^[10]

Jefferson Airplane

• Jack Casady – bass
• Paul Kantner – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals
• Grace Slick – vocals
• Papa John Creach – electric violin
• John Barbata – drums, percussion
• David Freiberg – vocals

Production

• Produced and arranged by Jefferson Airplane
• Pat "Maurice" Ieraci – production coordinator
• Don Gooch – recording engineer
• Mallory "Mallory" Earl – mixing engineer
• Recorded by Wally Heider's remote unit
• Mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
• Bruce Steinberg – album design, illustration, photography
• Randy Tuten – inner sleeve art: photo frames
• Greg Irons – inner sleeve art: "Gruntman"
• Heavy Water Lights (Joan Chase, Mary Ann Mayer, and John Hardham) – light show
• Acy Lehman – art coordination

Charts

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

References

1. Planer, Lindsay (2011). "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland - Jefferson Airplane | AllMusic". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 21, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. Davis, Stephen (2011). "Jefferson Airplane: Thirty Seconds Over Winterland : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
4. "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Toasters on PC a Flashback?". The New York Times. 15 June 1994.
5. Berkeley Systems, Inc. v. Delrina Corp., No. C-93-3545-EFL (N.D. Cal. Oct. 21, 1993), reprinted in 18 Computer L. Rep. 626 (1994)
6. "Another Poppin' Fresh Lawsuit" Archived 2016-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Wired, October 1994
7. "Jefferson Airplane v. Berkeley Systems, Inc., 886 F. Supp. 713 | Casetext Search + Citator". Casetext.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
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
9. "Jefferson Airplane v. Berkeley Systems, Inc., 886 F. Supp. 713 – CourtListener.com". CourtListener.
10. 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.