San Francisco

San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the fourteenth-most populous in the United States.

In the second half of the 1960s, San Francisco became the epicentre for the hippie culture, attracting bands like Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Grateful Dead.^[1] Frank Zappa criticized this scene in songs such as Flower Punk and Who Needs The Peace Corps?.^[2] In the 1980s, the hardcore punk band The Dead Kennedys represented a very different scene.

References to San Francisco in Zappa's lyrics

Who Needs The Peace Corps?: "Go to San Fran-Cis-Co-Ho-Ho-Ho" (...) I'll go to Frisco, buy a wig and sleep on Owsley's floor (...) How I love you, how I love you, Frisco!".
Flower Punk: "I'm going up to 'Frisco to join a psychedelic band.
Tuna Fish Promenade (Mix Outtake): "They'll either be dead or move to San Francisco where everybody thinks they're heavy business."
Scene 57: The Perverted Nun: "Listen, just in case you crash out, and the imaginary rock & roll newspaper from San Francisco wants to get any pictures of you, you'll look like you washed your face."
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Paladin Routine: "As we join Paladin and his good friend Hey Boy in a plush San Francisco hotel, we find Hey Boy running down the stairs to greet his good companion friend Paladin and saying ..."
Get Down: "She must be from San Francisco (...) No, she can't be from San Francisco. She's too clean."