A pseudo-interesting side note to the band is that Evan Dando of The Lemonheads fame was an early band member but the remaining three members : Juliana Hatfield, John Strohm, and Freda Love have more than enough talent to make up for his exit. Their songwriting style is complicated, highly melodic Pop. According to this new interview with the band, their long out of print catalog will be reissued next year (YAY!) and drummer Freda has a brand new memoir out called Red Velvet Underground.
If you are like me and didn't catch the Blake Babies live, you can download for free a radio performance from 1989 here in exchange for your email address.
As you might have guessed, the band members have been in various other projects that include : Antenna, Some Girls (not to be confused with the San Diego band with the same name), Velo-Deluxe, Strohm drummed in The Lemonheads for a stint and Julianna played with them as well for a bit too, The Juliana Hatfield Three (I bet you can guess whose band that was), and Minor Alps.
In the late 1980s my band practised in a nasty unheated building in Boston's South End. The Blake Babies were in a room just down the hall from us. Sadly, there wasn't a lot of socializing in that space, and I never met any of them that I recall. And never saw the Blake Babies. Which is all very sad!
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