Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Explained

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.

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.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3] 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.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Track listing

Track times from original vinyl release.^[7]

Personnel

Personnel credits from original vinyl release.^[7]

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

Notes and References

1. News: THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Toasters on PC a Flashback?. The New York Times. 15 June 1994.
2. 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)
3. https://www.wired.com/1994/10/another-poppin-fresh-lawsuit/ "Another Poppin' Fresh Lawsuit"
4. Web site: Jefferson Airplane v. Berkeley Systems, Inc., 886 F. Supp. 713 | Casetext Search + Citator. Casetext.com. 29 May 2023.
5. "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
6. Web site: Jefferson Airplane v. Berkeley Systems, Inc., 886 F. Supp. 713 – CourtListener.com. CourtListener.
7. Thirty Seconds Over Winterland . . 1973 . Vinyl back. . BFL1-0147 . New York City.