From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Darby Slick
Darby Slick
Darby Slick is an American guitarist and songwriter, best
known as a member of The Great Society, and as the
References
writer of the Jefferson Airplane song "Somebody to [1] Unterberger, Richie. "Biography: Darby Slick".
Love". In 1965 he co-founded The Great Society with Jer- Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/
ry Slick, Jenn Piersol, and Grace Slick (David Miner and p125982/biography. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
Bard Du Pont would join shortly after). Darby performed [2] http://www.taxim.com Taxim Records site
lead guitar and occasionally performed backup vocals • Slick, Darby. Don’t You Want Somebody To Love:
early on and less often towards the disbanding. He wrote Reflections on the San Francisco Sound.
some songs for The Great Society, including "Free Ad- Persondata
vice" and "Somebody to Love", which would later be-
Name Slick, Darby
come a hit for Jefferson Airplane.[1]
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Discography
Date of birth
In addition to his work with The Great Society, in the
Place of birth
1990s Darby worked on an album with his son Jor Darby
(Sandoland, Taxim Records) and a solo album (King of the Date of death
Fretless Guitar (1998), Taxim Records).[2] Place of death
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