Jefferson Airplane - Thirty Seconds Over Winterland reviews
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| Popmatters |
 If you want to know what was going on with Jefferson Airplane when they took the stage for their final concert in 1972, consider the cover art that was used for this live document. Seven toasters, unplugged, flying in formation despite displaying clocks with different times. Or, if you will, seven burnt-out musicians doing their best to keep up appearances despite having completely separate agendas. This band had once—along with the Grateful Dead—spearheaded the psychedelic rock movement and the San Francisco music scene with dynamic live performances and a catalogue of material that was both populist and intricate. Now there were basically three factions under one roof vying for control.
Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen had already splintered off to form Hot Tuna, where they were freer to pursue their preference for long jams and bluesy riffing. Paul Kantner and Grace Slick had also released their own sideline projects, although their output favored trippier, spacey fare. The third faction, probably playing peacemaker, involved the newer members of the band—drummer John Barbata, vocalist David Freiberg, and 55-year-old fiddler Papa John Creach. Thankfully Kantner was in the midst of a prolific writing binge, for the only thing keeping the Airplane flying at this point was the strength of his songs and Kaukonen’s mercurial lead guitar. The original version of the album contained seven tracks recorded at shows in San Francisco and Chicago; this reissued and expanded version adds five more....full text |
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| If you want to know what was going on with Jefferson Airplane when they took the stage for their final concert in 1972, consider the cover art that was used for this live document. Seven toasters, unplugged, flying in formation despite displaying clocks...full text |
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| Rollingstone |
It's a pretty good rock & roll album illustrating all the various strengths and weaknesses of this latest model 'Plane. As a live concert album (recorded last year in San Francisco and Chicago) it compares favorably with Bless Its Pointed Little Head, the 'Planes four-year-old previous recorded gig and one of the most understated and successful live albums of the Sixties. Of course long gone are Marty Balin, whose energetic vocalizing was once this band's most vital sign of life, and drummer Spencer Dryden, whose speed and puissance was often the backbone of the more thrilling Airplane sets. Their replacements, David Freiberg and John Barbata respectively, do their jobs adequately and without any panache whatsoever.
So what's to be said for Thirty Seconds over Winterland? Jack and Jorma are still one of the toughest lead-bass units to be heard in rock, and their taut and airy jammery is topped by John Creach's shrieking amplified fiddle, one of the more original and viscera-churning noises to grace improvisatory pop music. When the three of these get off a solid 11 minute jam-"Feel So Good" on the A side of this LP-it almost justifies the presence of several of Paul Kantner's sub-visionary science fiction ditties; difficult to listen to and impossible to believe in....full text |
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