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Even though Oxford Circle are appreciated by hardcore psychedelic collectors being a SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic band because of their shows over the city’s ballroom circuit in 1966 and 1967, they actually formed in Davis, about one hour towards the east. The group performed energetic garage-psychedelia which was intensely …

San Francisco-based Blue Cheer was what, in the past due ’60s, they utilized to contact a “power trio”: Dickie Peterson (b. 1948, Grand Forks, ND) (bass, vocals), Paul Whaley (drums), and Leigh Stephens (electric guitar). They performed what afterwards was called rock, so when they debuted in January 1968 using …