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formed in

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, United States. The band was formed in 1992 by friends Rusty Squeezebox, Mike Randle and David Green, later adding bassist Dave Chapple in place of Henry Liu. Baby Lemonade Biography, ''BabyLemonadeMusic.com''
Retrieved 6 July 2019 Mike Randle and Rusty Squeezebox were previously members of Los Angeles band Bad Press. In 1993, they began performing with Arthur Lee of

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, while maintaining their own career as Baby Lemonade. They released the album ''68% Pure Imagination'' in 1996, and their 1998 album ''Exploring Music'' was produced by

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. Randle and Squeezebox both issued solo albums in 2000 before recording the final Baby Lemonade album, ''The High Life Suite'', in 2001. The group was Arthur Lee's backing band prior to his incarceration in 1996, and after his release from prison in 2001 until his death in 2006. As such, they provided the most stable line-up of Love in the band's history, and toured worldwide between 2002 and 2005. In July 2005, the band was due to perform in the UK with Arthur Lee and the original Love guitarist

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. However, when the band got to the airport ready to fly to England, Arthur Lee refused to leave the States. The other members of the band, including Echols, decided to carry on without Lee and played a foreshortened series of gigs under the name "The Love Band". the following year it was announced that Lee had been diagnosed with

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, which led to his death in August 2006. In 2008, Baby Lemonade performed

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, with the

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. They have also performed with

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. A compilation CD, ''Best of Baby Lemonade'', was released in 2008. As at 2016, the band continue to perform as Baby Lemonade, while also touring with Johnny Echols as Love Revisited or The Love Band. The name Baby Lemonade comes from a track on

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's album '' Barrett''.

Line-up

*Rusty Squeezebox (born David Ramsey)- vocals, guitar *Mike Randle - guitar, vocals *David Chapple - bass, vocals, harmonica *David "Daddy-O" Green - drums

Former members

*Henry Liu - bassBaby Lemonade Music - Bio
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References

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