Here's an index I compiled for Darby Slick's autobiography Don't You Want Somebody to Love. I placed a special emphasis on Darby's artistic inspirations and influences. Is today's music less interesting because the major influences on twenty-something rock legends are fifty-something rock legends? I made corrections and additions when I knew the correct information. Things I'm not sure about are marked with "?". I've left Peter Vandergelder as Peter Van Gelder just to be inconsistent.
1 "12 x 5" 39 A Abba, Eden 80 "Against Nature" 22 Akmed, the Iranian student 121-122 Albin, Peter 15, 61, 88, 90, 98-99, 107 "Alexandria Quartet, The" 37 Ali Akbar College of Music 126 Ali, Muhammed 121 "Alice in Wonderland" 76 Alpert, Richard 43 Andersen, Ray 41, 73, 87-88, 95, 108 Anderson, Signe 113 Andrew, Sam 98 "Arbitration" 80 Autumn Records 72 Avalon Ballroom, 14, 80, 96-97, 99 Azir, student at Ali Akbar College 126-127 B Baez, Joan 15, 23 Balin, Marty 55, 82 Band, The 101 Baxter, Roy 32 Beat Movement 20 Beatles 12, 25, 37, 45 Beau Brummels 72, 74 Beck, Jeff 101 Bellson, Jordan 87 Berry, Chuck 41, 74, 78, 85 Big Brother and the Holding Company 85, 88-89, 97-99, 101 Bishop, Elvin 92-93 Blackie, the sway-backed horse 42 Bloomfield, Mike 92-93 Blues Project 80, 95 "Bolero" 76 "Born to be Burned" 42 Both\And 70, 113 "Brave New World" 22 Broadway (North Beach) 22 Brooklyn 36-37 Bruce, Lenny 37-39, 41,42; New York trial 38-39 (Paul) Butterfield Blues Band 92 Byrds 101 C Caen, Herb 120 Cage, John 12, 35 Calcutta 124-128 California Hall 97 Captain Marvel 52 Carpenter, John 45-48 Carroll, Lewis 28, 76 Casady, Jack 90 Cassady, Neal 106, 108 Castell, Luria 51 Champlin, Bill 91-92 Charlatans 30, 52-54, 101 Chess Records 105 Cipollina, John 26, 99-101, 107 Cipollina, Antonia (Sheesh) 85, 100 City Lights 21 Clark, Petula 68 "C'mon Let's Swim" 72 "Codeine" 53 Coffee Gallery 46-47, 55 Coleman, Ornette 61 Coltrane, John 12 "Coney Island of the Mind, A" 20 Country Joe and the Fish 92 Cow Palace 56, 72 D Dave (ukelele teacher) 15-16 "David and Lisa" 87 Davis, Miles 12, 69, 76 "Dirge" 42 Doggy Diner 66 Donahue, Tom "Big Daddy" 13, 56, 72-75, 77, 78, 112-113 Doug, the Quiz Kid 31-32, 83 Dowd, Elwood P. 108 Drugs 62-63 Dryden, Spencer 89-90, 98 Dupont, Bard 43, 69, 75, 79 Dylan, Bob 23, 45, 59, 69, 101 E "Earth Angel" 18 Elmore, Greg 101 F Faithful, Marianne 68 Family Dog 46, 48, 51, 54, 55-57, 71 Family Tree 52 "Father Bruce" 41 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 12 Fellini, Federico 12 Ferguson, Mike 54 Fillmore Auditorium, 14, 95-97; first show (SecondMime Troupe Benefit) 64-71; 20th reunion concert 66; Both/And benefit 113-114 Fillmore district 65, 80 Fillmore St. 86 Flamenco 21 Fort Ord 19 "Free Advice" 77; recording 78-79 Freeman, Bobby 72, 74 "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The" 23 Freiberg, David 15, 99 G Garcia, Jerry 26, 60-63, 84, 85-86, 101, 107 Garcia(?), Sarah 84 Gavin, Jim 74 Gavin Report 74 Gentleman's Band 69 George and Teddy 74 Gillespie, Dizzy 128 Ginsberg, Allen 12, 129 Gleason, Ralph J. 96 Gold, Herbert 22 Golden Gate Park 65 Golden Spike 14 Golden State Recorders 77 Graham, Bill 64, 65, 66, 68-71, 113, 128; philosophy of booking shows 69 Grateful Dead 15, 84, 113; Marin bash 102, 106-108 Great Society 40-44, 55, 72; performances, 13-14, Coffee Gallery (15 Oct 1965) 46-47, first Family Dog gig (16 Oct 1965) 55-57, first Fillmore show (second Mime Troupe benefit) 64-69, Mother's 74, Avalon Ballroom (w/ Blues Project,16 march 1966) 80, 95, Both/And Benefit at Fillmore (11 Sep 1966) 113-114; naming the band 44; early rehearsals 51; audition for Family Dog 51-52; members' favorite cigarettes 66; artistic goal 69; auditioning for Tom Donahue 73; first demo session 73-75; turning on Sly Stone 74; recording at Golden State Recorders 77-79; Mill Valley house 103; rehearsal habits 104-105; Warner Bros. contract 114, Guaymas 115-116 Gurley, James 85, 88, 98-99 Guthrie, Woody 22 H Hagerty, Terry 91-92 Ham, Bill 95 Handy, John 69, 70-71 Harmon, Ellen 51 "Hard Day's Night, A" 37 Heinlein, Robert 22 Helms, Chet 48, 85, 88, 92, 96 Hendrix, Jimi 62 Hesse, Herman 22 Huysman, J.K. 22 Hicks, Dan 54 Hippiedom 71 Hippie Fashion 50 "Hippie is Dead" 50 "Horse's Mouth, The" 29 "Howl" 20 Hungry I 128 Hunter, George 30-31, 53-54 Huxley, Aldous 28, 43 I Iran 121-123 Istanbul 120-121 "It's No Secret" 55 J Jefferson Airplane 52 ,55, 69, 82, 89-91, 113-114, 127, 128 Johnson, Robert 22 Joplin, Janis 26, 68, 97-99 Joplin, Scott 18 Joyce, James 22 K Kantner, Paul 55 Karachi 123-124 Kaukonen, Jorma 15 Kelly, Walt 124 Kesey, Ken 15 Khan, Ali Akbar 5, 109-112, 126-127, 129 Khan, Allaudin 112 Khan, Ashish 126 Kingston Trio 22 Kreutzmann, Bill 61 Krupa, Gene 18 L Larkspur house 43 "Laugh, Laugh" 73 Lawrence, the Mexican-American bi-sexual 19, 35-37, 39 Lawrence, T.E. 33 "Lawrence of Arabia" 33 Leadbelly 22 Leary, Timothy 43 Lesh, Phil 90 Leslie, the inspiration for Somebody to Love' 40, 49, 53, 75-77, 85, 108 Light shows 95 "Little Darling" 18 Little Richard 17 Longshoreman's Hall 51 Louise, Slick family domestic 15 "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The" 29 M Mailer, Norman 20 Makeba, Miriam 23 Marvel Comics 22 Matrix 82-93; physical layout 84-85, 95 McAlister St. 80 McCartney, Paul 72, 128 McClay, Tom 74 McGhee, Brownie 22 Mendel, Steve 16 Merman, Ethel 68 Mike's 21 Miller, Steve 93 Mime Troupe 58, 64-65 Miner, David 13, 43-44, 75, 77-80 "Miosis" 87 Mission District 58 Mitchell, Bobby 72, 73, 112 Mojo Men 73, 74 Monkees 73 Monterey Pop Festival 48 Moore, Scottie 26 Mother's 13, 72-73, 76 "Mr. Jones" 45 Mystery Trend 69, 70 N Nagle, Ron 70 "Naked and the Dead, The" 20 "Nature Boy" 80 Nelson, Rickey 18 New York 36-39 Nigel, the mad scientist 40 North Beach 21-22 O Odetta 23 "On the Road" 20, 22 Oscar, the guitarist 94-95, 109-110, 113-116, 127 "Outlaw Blues" 59 P Pakistan 123-124 Palo Alto, 14-15 Picasso, Pablo 22 Pierce St. Annex 86 Piersol, Bill 41, 43 Piersol, Jean 41-43 Preston, Billy 78 Q Quality Cat (Walt) 43 Quetta 123 Quicksilver Messenger Service 15, 99, 101 R Rachel, Tom Donahue's partner 72 Ravel, Maurice 76 Rawls, Lou 30 Red Dog Saloon 53-54 Reid, Patricia 83 Reid, William 83-84; poster 2 Rifkin, Danny 60 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai 28 Rincon Annex (post office) 75 Rolling Stones 12, 39, 45 Roth, Philip 22 S "Sally Go Round the Roses" 105 San Francisco 120 San Francisco State 41 Santa Cruz beach house 29, 34 Scott, Carl 72, 73 Scully, Rock 60 "Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The" 33 "Seven Samurai, The" 87 Shankar, Ravi 23, 34, 69, 104, 112 "Siddartha" 22 "Silences" 35 Simon and Garfunkle 23 "Sing, Sing, Sing" 18 "Sketches of Spain" 69, 76 Slick(?), Carol 5, 84, 129 Slick, Dan 18 Slick, Darby; learning ukelele in Hawaii 15-16; learning guitar 17; first day Jr. High 17; playing drums 18; at University of California at Santa Barbara 18; Army training 19-21; artistic influences 22-23; introduction to marijuana, 23-24; trying peyote 24-25; improvisational duets with Grace Slick 25-26, 33; feelings for Grace 27-28, 33; Mother 29; sex with Grace 34; sojourn in New York 36-39; at trial of Lenny Bruce 38-39; buying a guitar 41; first song 42; first experience with LSD 43; on guitar tuning 52; jamming with Jerry Garcia 61-62; writing "Somebody to Love" 75-76; studying with Ali Akbar Khan 110-111; travelling in Mexico 115-117; on the Orient Express 119-120; in Calcutta 124-128; letters from Dad 127 Slick, Grace 11-12, 15, 23-25, 27-35, 39-43, 47, 51-53, 58-60, 64-68, 70, 76, 78-80, 88, 103-105, 108, 112-113, 128; as child, 17; marriage to Jerry Slick 18; as a drunk 27; growing marijuana 28; stage presence 68; backstage with Janis Joplin 97-99 Slick, Jerry 12, 15, 23-25, 29-35, 39-43, 47, 53, 58-61, 64-68, 70, 76, 79-80, 88, 101, 103-105, 108, 112-113, 128; marriage to Grace Wing 18 "Somebody to Love", 75-78; recording 77-78; Jefferson Airplane version 127-128 Sons of Champlin 91, 101 Sopwith Camel 92 "Sounds of Silence" 23 Spaghetti Factory 21 Specter, Abner 105 Spence, Skip 89 Stanford, Leland 14 Stanford University, 14-15 "Star Trek" 63 St. John, Jill 42 Stockhousen, Karlheinz 12 Stone, Sly 72-75, 78 "Stranger in a Strange Land" 22 "Sundays and Cibelle" 87 T "Tale of Two Cities, A" 37 Terry, Sonny 23 "Tin Drum, The" 22 "That's How It Is" 77 Tolkin (Tolkien, J.R.R.?) 22 Tom (sculptor from Palo Alto) 49 "Tribute to Dr. Strange, A" (first Family Dog concert) 56-57 Truffaut, Francois 12 Tucker, Sophie 68 Turner, Lonnie 93 U "Ulysses" 22 V Van Gelder (?), Marsha 80, 98, 103-105, 108 Van Gelder (Vandergelder), Peter 40, 69, 79-81, 90-93, 98, 103-105, 107-110, 112-117, 127 Vejtables 74 Veracruz 116-117 Virginia City 53-54 W Walt (Quality Cat) 43 Wilde, Oscar 28 "White Rabbit" 61, 76-77; live arrangement 80 "Why do Fools Fall in Love", 17 Wilhem, Mike 52-53 Wolf, Howard 112-113, 114 Y Young, Lester 84 Z Zappa, Frank 63