{"id":2460,"date":"2018-12-14T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:22:00","slug":"the-love-band-featuring-johnny-echols-farewell-uk-tour-summer-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols Farewell UK Tour Summer 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee\u2019s longest serving band return to the UK to perform classic songs from LOVE\u2019s first three albums Love<\/em>, De Capo<\/em>\u00a0and Forever Changes<\/em>\u00a0as well as some special deep cuts for the last time<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From 1993 until Arthur\u2019s death in 2006, the band Baby Lemonade performed with him, being an essential part of the renaissance of Love\u2019s music. This iteration of Love saw many sold-out tours, as well as back to back Glastonbury performances and an appearance on Later With Jools Holland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Joining Baby Lemonade is Love\u2019s\u00a0original lead guitarplayer and founding member\u00a0Johnny Echols, who was part of the classic line-up that recorded the seminal Forever Changes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnny Echols and Arthur Lee were childhood friends whose families both moved from Memphis to Los Angeles. Teenage Johnny & Arthur teamed up to form the groups Arthur Lee & The LAG\u2019s and The American Four before they formed Love in 1965. The classic Love line-up featuring Johnny disbanded in \u201968. Johnny reunited with Arthur Lee in 2005 to perform with Love once more.<\/p>\n

Baby Lemonade formed in 1992 by Rusty Squeezebox, Mike Randle, David \u201cDaddy-O\u201d Green, later adding Dave Chapple to the mix. In \u201993 the band landed the gig of a lifetime opening up for Love. That show was the last for that incarnation of Love as Arthur replaced them with the four Baby Lemonade members. Baby Lemonade released records on Sympathy For The Record Industry, Munster and Big Deal between \u201993 and 2001.\u00a0
\nUpon their return from a LOVE tour of Europe, in 1996, Baby Lemonade was shocked to find that Arthur had been sentenced to 12 years in prison on a weapons charge.<\/p>\n

After nearly six\u00a0years in prison, Arthur\u2019s case was overturned and shortly after, at his request, Baby Lemonade began rehearsing for what would be non-stop Love touring throughout North America, UK, Europe and Australia between 2002 and 2005 where they enjoyed unprecedented success with sold-out tours, back to back Glastonbury performances, Roskilde and Benicassim festival, two sold out shows at The Royal Festival Hall that spawned a live album, and an appearance on the Later With Jools Holland <\/em>TV Show.<\/p>\n

In 2005 the Love\u00a0line -up once again featured Arthur\u2019s childhood friend and founding member Johnny Echols on lead guitar who returned after a 37 year absence.<\/p>\n

In July of 2005, Arthur was diagnosed with Leukaemia and after a brave battle he passed away one year later. Arthur\u2019s last show was with Baby Lemonade and Johnny Echols on June 23rd at San Francisco\u2019s Cafe Du Nord. The world had lost a true music legend.<\/p>\n

In 2019 The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols will return for\u00a0one last UK tourto celebrate the music of Arthur Lee & Love.<\/p>\n

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The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee\u2019s longest serving band return to the UK to perform classic songs from LOVE\u2019s first three albums Love, De Capo\u00a0and Forever Changes\u00a0as well as some special deep cuts for the last time From 1993 until Arthur\u2019s death in 2006, the band Baby Lemonade performed with him, being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs-shows","tag-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}