1. David Freiberg is an American musician best known for contributing vocals, keyboards, electric bass, rhythm guitar, viola and percussion as a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship.
15 Facts About David Freiberg
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Classically trained in violin and viola, Freiberg began his career moonlighting as a coffeehouse singer-songwriter during the American folk music revival while working for a railroad.
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David Freiberg shared lead vocals with Gary Duncan for much of the band's history and regularly contributed additional guitar and keyboards to their studio recordings.
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David Freiberg continued to serve as the group's bassist and contribute to the band's songwriting until September 1971, when he left the group to begin another prison sentence for marijuana possession.
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Shortly after being released from jail in 1972, David Freiberg joined Jefferson Airplane at the behest of Kantner, belatedly replacing Marty Balin on vocals and tambourine for the tour that supported Long John Silver.
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David Freiberg subsequently appeared on Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, a live album culled from those performances.
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David Freiberg developed the "distinctive" organ riff of Balin's "Miracles," the group's most successful single.
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David Freiberg was the only member of Quicksilver Messenger Service to participate in the majority of the Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra records and briefly provided uncredited accompaniment for The Ace of Cups, a groundbreaking all-female San Francisco band.
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David Freiberg appeared on the 2008 album Jefferson's Tree of Liberty.
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David Freiberg held his first solo show in 2007 on November 24 in the lounge of the Ledson Hotel on the Sonoma Plaza.
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David Freiberg performed a number of songs not played live before.
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The band was still touring in July 2018, with David Freiberg singing lead on tracks such as "We Built This City".
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At age 79, David Freiberg remained the only active original member in the band.
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In November 2018, David Freiberg is collaborating with the Dayton Symphony.
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In 1966, David Freiberg married Julia "Girl David Freiberg" Brigden; they had a daughter, Jessica.