Thirty Seconds Over Winterland

Infobox Album |
Name = Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Type = live
Artist = 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
Producer = Jefferson Airplane
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:99kxlfhe5cqp]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jeffersonairplane/albums/album/108161/review/5945278/thirty_seconds_over_winterland]
Last album = "Long John Silver"
(1972)
This album = "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland"
(1973)
Next album = "Early Flight"
(1974)

"Thirty Seconds Over Winterland" is a 1973 album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was the second live album recorded by the group.

Track listing

ide One

#"Have You Seen the Saucers?" (Paul Kantner) – 4:15
#"Feel So Good" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 11:10
#"Crown of Creation" (Kantner) – 4:05

ide Two

#"When the Earth Moves Again" (Kantner) – 4:05
#"Milk Train" (Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, Roger Spotts) – 3:57
#"Trial by Fire" (Kaukonen) – 5:00
#"Twilight Double Leader" (Kantner) – 5:41

Personnel

*Jack Casady - Bass
*Paul Kantner - Vocals / Rhythm Guitar
*Jorma Kaukonen - Vocals / Lead Guitar
*Grace Slick - Vocals
*Papa John Creach - 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

Album

Flying Toasters lawsuits

In 1989, software company Berkeley Systems released its immensely popular After Dark screensaver. The best-known of the various screensaver options was "Flying Toasters", whose winged appliances strongly resembled the toasters on the cover of "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland". When another software company, Delrina, copied the trademarked Flying Toasters artwork into a competing screen saver, a "Bloom County"-themed version, Berkeley successfully sued Delrina for trademark infringement. Although much of the media and public bought into Delrina's well-prepared PR campaign spin that they were merely "parodying" the product...the judge did not see it that way.

Shortly after this, Jefferson Airplane sued Berkeley for copying their flying toasters trademark for their album. The band's case, however, was lost because Berkeley claimed no prior knowledge of the artwork and a judge noted the band had failed to trademark the cover art.

References

* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/eword.html?pg=9 "Another Poppin' Fresh Lawsuit"] , "Wired", October 1994