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The Oxford Circle was a North Californian band formed in the university city of Davis, near Sacramento. They gained a reputation for their live performances in San Francisco during the mid-'60s, although they only released one single between 1964 and 1967 on a short-lived independent label. After the band disbanded, the drummer went on to form KAK in 1967, while the guitarist and vocalist and another guitarist also formed a band that same year. Following the dissolution of KAK after their only album was released in early 1969, Gary Lee Yoder joined Blue Cheer for two years, replacing a member who had been dismissed for criticizing his bandmates' drug use. By the time Yoder joined, Blue Cheer had shifted from their original acid rock style to a more commercial hard rock/prog rock sound, akin to another band that had shortened their name and was already on their third album, "Closer to Home." Yoder left Blue Cheer in 1971 and subsequently withdrew from public life. He passed away in 2021, while Dehner Patten continues to perform with a local blues/rock band called One-Sheet in Beaverton, Oregon. Paul Whaley died in Germany in 2019.

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