the band was essentially put together by the founder of frontier records, lisa fancher. after the break-up of the flyboys, lasken and sinclair recorded a demo with the singer maicol sinatra and gave it to fancher for possible release on frontier. fancher agreed to put out an album if curry returned as vocalist and she was instrumental in finding benair to play drums. benair had formerly played with the quick and the weirdos and went on to drum with the three o'clock.