Juliana Hatfield, John Strohm and Freda Love were inexperienced, intuitively talented teenagers when they first formed the Blake Babies in 1986.
Strohm, who had come to Boston from Indiana with his then-girlfriend Love to study music production at the Berklee School of Music, had played in punk-rock bands since the age of 14. But Hatfield, who was also attending Berklee, was a shy beginner and Love had only been playing drums for six months.
Their natural talents combined easily—Hatfield’s scrappy, girlish voice and wiry bass melodies; Strohm’s confident rock guitar; Love’s simple, comfortable pop beats.
The chemistry between them was immediate and in a matter of months they would begin to be recognized as one of the most captivating bands in Boston’s celebrated local music scene, where their peers and friends included the Lemonheads, Galaxie 500, and Dinosaur Jr.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
