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'''San Francisco''' is the fourth most populous city in [[California]] and the fourteenth-most populous in the United States.
  
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The '''City and County of San Francisco''' is the fourth most populous city in California and the fourteenth-most populous in the United States, with a 2006 estimated population of 744,041. It is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the United States.
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In the second half of the 1960s, San Francisco became the epicentre for the hippie culture, attracting bands like [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Janis Joplin|Big Brother and the Holding Company]], and the [[Grateful Dead]].<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1 Show 41 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 1]]</ref>  [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] criticized this scene in songs such as [[Flower Punk]] and [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]].<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19801/m1 Show 42 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 2]]</ref>  In the 1980s, the hardcore punk band [[Jello Biafra|The Dead Kennedys]] represented a very different scene.  
  
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Bands such as the [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Janis Joplin|Big Brother and the Holding Company]], and the [[Grateful Dead]] were part of the San Francisco scene that emerged in the 2nd half of the 1960s.<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1 Show 41 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 1]]</ref>  [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] criticized this scene in songs such as [[Flower Punk]] and [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]].<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19801/m1 Show 42 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 2]]</ref>  In the 1980s, the hardcore punk band [[Jello Biafra|The Dead Kennedys]] represented a very different scene.  
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==References to San Francisco in Zappa's lyrics==
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* ''[[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!"''.
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* ''[[Flower Punk]]'': ''"I'm going up to 'Frisco to join a psychedelic band.''
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* ''[[Tuna Fish Promenade (Mix Outtake)]]'': ''"They'll either be dead or move to San Francisco where everybody thinks they're heavy business."''
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* ''[[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."''
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* ''[[I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]''
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* ''[[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 ..."''
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* ''[[Get Down]]'': ''"She must be from San Francisco (...) No, she can't be from San Francisco. She's too clean."''
  
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==Link==
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==Zappa concerts held in San Francisco==
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*[[65/11/06 San Francisco CA US Longshoremen's Hall]]
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*[[66/ San Francisco CA US Avalon Ballroom]]
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*[[66/ San Francisco CA US Avalon Ballroom]]
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*[[66/05/27-29 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[66/06/03-04 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[66/06/24-25 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[66/09/09 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[66/09/10 San Francisco CA US Scottish Rites Temple]]
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*[[67/02/17-19 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[67/03/03-05 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[67/12/14 San Francisco CA US Fillmore Auditorium]]
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*[[67/12/15-16 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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*[[68/06/06 San Francisco CA US Fillmore West]]
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*[[68/06/07-08 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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*[[69/01/17-18 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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*[[70/11/05-07 San Francisco CA US Fillmore West]]
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*[[72/12/15 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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*[[73/03/30-31 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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*[[75/12/27 San Francisco CA US Winterland]]
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* [[Fillmore Venues]]
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==People born in San Francisco==
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* [[Gracie Allen]]
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* [[Terry Bozzio]]
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* [[Clint Eastwood]]
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* [[Koko]] the gorilla
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==See also===
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* [[Family Dog Productions]]
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* [[Grateful Dead]]
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* [[Kronos Quartet]]
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* [[KSAN, San Francisco]]
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==External links==
 
*[[wikipedia:San Francisco, California|San Francisco on Wikipedia]]<br>
 
*[[wikipedia:San Francisco, California|San Francisco on Wikipedia]]<br>
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
  
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Revision as of 06:09, 26 July 2026

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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."

Zappa concerts held in San Francisco

People born in San Francisco

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External links

Sources

  1. ↑ Show 41 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 1]
  2. ↑ Show 42 - The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 2]
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