[4] Following the band's debut album Wishbone Ash, they had toured extensively and felt they had improved their musical skills as a result, but had not been able to devote much time to writing new material.

The first, slow part features one of the band's guitarists Ted Turner soloing while the other, Andy Powell, plays along with the bassline.

[5]: 92–93  The live favourite "Jailbait" was composed "in about ten minutes" at a pub in Exeter, and came about as a joint band effort through jamming together.

As the vocalist on this song, Ted Turner wrote a few lines of a lyric, which he completed with the help of drummer Steve Upton in about half an hour.

[5]: 93 "Alone" dated from pre-Wishbone Ash days, having been performed by Martin Turner and Steve Upton's previous band The Empty Vessels.

It was a standard blues rock song running at over ten minutes, and was basically a jam with all the band members contributing.