Home The Band Shows Photos Music Contact Us Johnny Flores - Drums & Percussion Johnny has played with various musicians at venues in and around Davis, including Borders Books, Delta of Venus, Sudwerk Brewery, Davis Farmer's Market, Cafe Roma, and E Street Plaza. Johnny also performed with the UC Davis Jazz Ensemble and with the Davis band !Akimbo! at the Whole Earth Festival in Davis, the Oregon Country Faire, the Ashkenaz club in Berkeley and the Friday Night in the Park summer series in Sacramento, opening for Laura Love. Johnny enjoys playing different styles of music from funk, jazz, and world beat to rock, reggae, and Latin.   Petr Janata - Keyboards & Vocals Through high school, Petr grew up listening to and playing classical music. Strongly influenced by the music of the Grateful Dead and assorted folk music, he has played in various folk-rock groups over the years, including the Staggers and Jags, a brief international stint in Vienna with the Fulbright Desperadoes, and more recently the Magnetones. Every now and then he plays a show with singer/songwriter Katie Henry. His day job as a scientist trying to understand the workings of music and the human brain keeps him exploring and thinking about all sorts of music, sounds, and musical interactions.   Bob Lindley - Violin, Electric Mandolin, & Baritone Violin Bob has played styles from classical to folk to rock to jazz, drawing inspiration from each. After early classical violin training performing orchestral and chamber music, he made the jump to electric synthesized violin with the Pasadena-based fusion band "Mixt Fixion". Then, following a period of performing with acoustic folk-blues groups at UC Santa Cruz, he took up jazz studies with alto sax player Gary Foster of the Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin Big Band. For two years Bob produced a monthly jazz concert series at Clouds Gallery in Pasadena and performed there and elsewhere with his own quintet "Blue Tuna Road". While with Hardwater, he's added two new musical voices with the 5-string electric mandolin and the "octave" violin.   Cedar Seeger - Bass & Vocals J. "Cedar" Seeger is known primarily as a guitarist and writer. However, he has always had a fondness for bass. "In one note, it's the sum total of all the music in a given beat." His influences include Harvey Brooks, Paul McCartney, Rick Danko, country legend Floyd Flotsam and others. As a bassist, his studio credits (way back when) include work with Dino Valenti and Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jesse Barish, hit writer for Marty Balin, as well as live work with Roger and Merle Saunders' band, Bodacious, in the Fillmore era. As a lad, guitarist Cedar had early success with Thee Sixpence in Hollywood and went on to become a journeyman bar and club player covering styles from Bluegrass to Blues, Motown to Lowdown and Good Old Rock and Roll. "It's all good! I like the musical freedom playing in Hardwater, it's creative and yet focused."   John Swann - Vocals & Guitar In the mid 70s John played guitar and sang in the "The Rentals" - a folk/rock band, lead by Glen McClughan and based in Victoria B.C. His biggest musical heroes growing up in the '60s were Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, and Frank Zappa. Following a long hiatus from performing, John has been active on the Davis music scene for the last 8 years. In addition to playing with Hardwater, he has performed at various times with folk artists Katie Henry, Ray Frank, and Laura Sandage of Mudlark, and has recently begun an acoustic duet collaboration with guitarist / vocalist Andrew Corbett. In the past two years John has also added song-writing and bass playing to his musical endeavors.