I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.