Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, originally released in 1973, was the final original album release from rock icons Jefferson Airplane. Captured live in concert, the album finds the early ’70s edition of the Airplane (with longtime members Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady joined by jazz and blues violinist Papa John Creach, former Quicksilver Messenger Service vocalist David Freiberg and ex-Turtles drummer Johnny Barbata) at its hardest rocking.
The unique set focuses on their then-current material while acknowledging Kaukonen and Casady’s Hot Tuna splinter group and glancing backward to Jefferson Airplane’s groundbreaking ’60s work. Although their contemporary studio albums (1971’s Bark, Long John Silver from ’72) were somewhat disjointed and the group would disband after the release of Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, Jefferson Airplane was still a unified force onstage and many fans regard this period as the Airplane’s live peak.
That statement is borne out by the music captured on this CD, recorded during Jefferson Airplane’s final shows at San Francisco’s Winterland on September 21-22, 1972 and a month earlier in Chicago. As dynamic and forward-propelled as any music they’d created during the previous seven years, the tracks released in 1973 as Thirty Seconds Over Winterland reflect a band that had both come a long way and was ready to move on.
Tracks
1. Have You Seen The Saucers (Paul Kantner) - 4:19
2. Feel So Good (Jorma Kaukonen) - 11:28
3. Crown Of Creation (Paul Kantner) - 3:24
4. When The Earth Moves Again (Paul Kantner) - 4:19
5. Milk Train (Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, Roger Spotts) - 4:01
6. Trial By Fire (Jorma Kaukonen) - 5:05
7. Twilight Double Leader (Paul Kantner) - 5:25
8. Wooden Ships (David Crosby, Paul Kantner, Stephen Stills) - 6:37
9. Long John Silver (Grace Slick, Jack Casady) - 5:32
10.Come Back Baby (Traditional) - 7:08
11.Lawman (Grace Slick) - 3:14
12.Diana/Volunteers (Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner) - 6:06
Bonus Tracks 8-12 only on 2009 Iconoclastic edition
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
Related Acts
1965-66 The Great Society - Born to Be Burned
1968-71 Grace Slick And The Great Society - Conspicuous Only By Its Absence / How It Was
1972 Hot Tuna - Burgers (2012 audiophile Vinyl replica) 1968-71 Grace Slick And The Great Society - Conspicuous Only By Its Absence / How It Was
1975 Hot Tuna - Yellow Fever (2012 Audiophile)
1976 Hot Tuna - Hoppkorv (2012 audiophile Vinyl replica)
1976 Hot Tuna - Hoppkorv (2012 audiophile Vinyl replica)
A very fine live album by the Westcoast legend. Thanks alot Marios :-)
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DeleteThanks for great Jefferson Airplane collection - do You have more their albums or Jefferson Starship ?
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