In 1966, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks met during their senior year at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, and started making music together soon after. I was a senior in high school and Lindsey was a junior,” said Nicks in a 1981 interview. “And we went to a Young Life meeting, which was a religious meeting that simply got you out of the house on Wednesday nights, and he was there and I was there and we sat down and played ‘California Dreamin.’ I thought he was a darling.”
A year later, the two were both playing in the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band (later shortened to Fritz), along with keyboardist and vocalist Javier Pacheco and drummer Bob Aguirre with Buckingham on bass and vocals and Nicks on lead vocals and percussion. The band had originally formed in 1966 to play a high school talent show and would later rehearse at Buckingham’s house in Atherton.
“He [Buckingham] called me up and asked if I wanted to be in a band,” recalled Nicks, “and so, I was in this band with him for three and a half years – a band called Fritz.”