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In this oral history, David Freiberg, a key figure in the Bay Area music scene from the 1960s onward, recounts his life, career, friends, and family. Born in Boston in 1938 and raised in Cincinnati, David moved out to California in 1959 where he first took up playing the guitar. Touching down in Oakland, he moved to San Francisco in the early 1960s and then over to Mill Valley a few years later. David gives a detailed account of his time playing guitar with Quicksilver Messenger Service in the '60s and subsequently with Jefferson Airplane/Starship beginning in the '70s. He discusses many of his friends from that legendary milieu - well-known musicians from the Bay Area rock scene like Marty Balin, John Cipollina, and Paul Kantner - and reminisces about what Mill Valley was like in that era. He also discusses his current life with his wife Linda, also a musician, and his relationship with his daughters, Jessica and Polly. 80 years old and actively touring at the time this oral history was conducted, David concludes by offering advice to up-and-coming musicians.
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84DE5FA4-8BDF-4AE5-9591-056738902317 2019.013.001
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