[8][9] The pair met while they were both attending Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, south of San Francisco.

[11] In 1968 Buckingham invited Nicks to sing in Fritz, a band for which he was playing bass guitar and which included some of his high school friends.

[11] Nicks talks about joining Fritz in an interview with Us Magazine from 1988: I met Lindsey when I was a senior in high school and he was a junior, and we sang a song together at some after-school function.

So I joined the band, and within a couple of weeks we were opening for really big shows: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin.

[11] Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin of Big Brother and the Holding Company and Jimi Hendrix, whom Fritz also opened for, would all prove influential on Nicks and her developing stage persona.

[12] The band manager, David Forrester, worked hard to secure a record deal for Fritz, despite their sound differing from the harder, psychedelic music of their more popular contemporaries.

[13] Having developed a romantic relationship in addition to their working partnership, Nicks and Buckingham decided soon afterwards to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams of being signed.

[13] While still performing with Fritz, Nicks had attended San Jose State University, studying Speech Communication.

[11][23] It was not long before Nicks and Buckingham met engineer and producer Keith Olsen as well as the casual entrepreneurs Ted Feigin and Lee Lasseff.

Olsen took the opportunity to purchase a large Neve console for the facility, as he owned part of the studio at the time.

[24] Various session musicians, including drummer Jim Keltner and guitarist Waddy Wachtel, assisted in recording the album.

Buckingham wrote the song in late 1971 or early 1972 while recovering from a bout of mononucleosis that forced him to play while lying flat on his back.

[13] Thanks, however, to airplay by several Birmingham, Alabama disc jockeys, the album got well-received exposure during the WJLN-FM[31] progressive rock evening hours, and the duo managed to cultivate a relatively small and concentrated fan base in that market.

[23] Later, Buckingham met with Fleetwood and Christine and John McVie at the Mexican restaurant El Carmen, with Nicks later joining the group after her waitress shift at Clementine's, still wearing her flapper costume.

[36] Two of the album's ten songs have been issued on CD: "Long Distance Winner" was released as part of Nicks' Enchanted box set; and "Stephanie" turned up on a promotional-only CD release by Buckingham entitled Words and Music (A Retrospective), although this was from a vinyl transfer as well.

In an interview on WRLT 100.1 Nashville from September 11, 2006, Buckingham expressed interest in seeing the album released on CD.

He also suggested the possibility of a future joint Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks tour in the next few years to support the prospective re-release.

Backing musicians Moncrieff and Hodges have also expressed interest in reuniting with Buckingham and Nicks for a future tour.

In an interview with NME in August 2011, Lindsey Buckingham reiterated his interest in giving the album an official CD release.