David Freiberg loves to talk about the past. But he has more going on right now than most other musicians, even at the age of 86.

Freiberg is a singer and guitarist in the legendary Jefferson Starship, in concert June 20, Penn’s Peak.

Speaking from his home in Novado, Calif., where he’s back for a couple of days before “getting back on the road where I belong,” he says it’s the band’s 50th anniversary tour, which was extended from last year.

Freiberg says Jefferson Starship has been to Penn’s Peak many times, including last year. “It’s a beautiful place and a good place to play. I am looking forward to going there.”

He mentions more than once how enjoyable it is to play with the band. “We’re touring mostly as much as we ever did, and it’s been so much fun lately.”

As well as Jefferson Starship radio hits, Freiberg says their concerts have a few Jefferson Airplane songs and every now and then include a song from their 2020 release “Mother of the Sun.” They even do “Nothing’s Going to Stop Us Now,” a song that none of the Jefferson Starship musicians were involved with except for drummer Donny Baldwin. “Half of the audience members played it at their wedding,” says Freiberg.

Freiberg says the band has not been able to come together to do a new album. “We’ve got a bunch of songs and basic tracks. We haven’t been able to get together in a studio. If we all lived in the same city, we would have another album by now.”

The Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship history is complicated and often volatile.

Freiberg admits that “It is confusing to most fans.”

Freiberg knew Paul Kantner for many years. “I started out as a folksinger, where I met Paul. But that was at the end of the folk scene. Then the Beatles came along. We said, ‘That’s what we want.’ We switched to electric guitars. And since we were in San Francisco, the chemicals were there.”

Kantner became a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, while Freiberg was part of the original Quicksilver Messenger Service. Both bands often played together, along with the Grateful Dead.

Although they were very accomplished musically, Quicksilver never reached the commercial heights of the other two bands. “We were slow on the promotion,” says Freiberg, “and our manager was very cautious. We were playing all over in 1996, at the Fillmore, Winterland and the Avalon, but we did not get a record out until the middle of 1998, after everybody else.”

Freiberg came to feel pushed aside in Quicksilver. Kantner brought him into Jefferson Airplane to replace singer Marty Balin in the early 1970s. Along with Grace Slick and others, they first toured as Jefferson Starship 1n 1974. Although he now plays guitar, Freiberg played keyboards and bass with that version of the group.

The band continued with personnel changes until 1985, when Kantner left and retired the name, and remaining members formed under the name Starship, a group Freiberg was in for a short time. Kantner, who died in 2016, had reformed Jefferson Starship in 1992.

The Jefferson Starship has been together for a long time. Freiberg says, “Cathy Richardson, who is a magnificent vocalist, joined in 2008. Chris Smith [keyboards and synth bass] has been with us for 27 years, which is probably the longest single span of anyone in a Starship-Airplane project. And Jude Gold, who is such a great guitarist, is the baby of the group. He came with us in 2012.”

Freiberg says that this Jefferson Starship “fits the ideals I had in my head when I first started music. For everyone here, the band is the most important thing. We all just want to get out and play.”

Jefferson Starship, 8 p.m. June 20, Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe, Tickets: 866-605-7325, www.pennspeak.com