David Freiberg (born August 24, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He was vocalist and bass guitar player with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
Freiberg began his career as a coffee house folk musician. For a while he shared a house in Venice, California, with other future folk-rockers David Crosby and Paul Kantner. Janis Joplin was also one of his roommates. In the mid-1960s, already in his ...
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David Freiberg (born August 24, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He was vocalist and bass guitar player with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
Freiberg began his career as a coffee house folk musician. For a while he shared a house in Venice, California, with other future folk-rockers David Crosby and Paul Kantner. Janis Joplin was also one of his roommates. In the mid-1960s, already in his late twenties, Freiberg founded Quicksilver Messenger Service with John Cipollina. In 1972 Freiberg joined Jefferson Airplane for the tour that promoted their final studio LP, Long John Silver and appeared on their final live album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. The remnants of the band—minus lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, who had formed their own band, Hot Tuna—eventually evolved into Jefferson Starship, and Freiberg remained with this group until 1984 when he quit the group following the departure of Paul Kantner....
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