Artist description The most magnificent assemblage of beauty and talent in the history of the universe. ever.

Music Style eclectic progressive rock

Musical Influences Dave Matthews, No Doubt, Zappa, Allman Brothers

Group Members RaVani Flood vocals and hot sax, Trever Veilleux guitar and vocals, J.J Leroh drums, Gardner DeAguiar guitar and vocals, James Seaquest tenor and baritone sax.

Instruments mostly

Albums The Future's Past Part 1: The Meantime

Press Reviews Big Isle band has come a long way to release its first CD. 4/19/2002 "People are always telling me how unusual our group is. Not just as far as the music we play but just that we get along." - RaVani Flood, saxophonist/vocalist By John Burnett For the Hawaii Tribune Herald When the T-H last talked to Technical Difficulties more than a year ago, they were getting ready for what, for them would be a fortunate break - opening for blues prodigy Johnny Lang at the Kona Brew Pub. Since then, the band whose style guitarist-volcalist Trever Veilleux described as "eclectic progressive rock" has taken regular gigs Thursdays at Charley's Bar & Grill in Keaau. They've also undergone some personnel changes and - oh yeah - they're releasing their first CD this weekend. "It's a collection of recordings that we've done for about the last two years," Veilleux said. "It has three live tracks and seven studio tracks. Out of ten tunes, nice are originals." There are two release parties for the new CD, titled "The Future's Past Part 1: The Meantime." The first is tonight from 7-11pm, an all-ages event at the Blue Dolphin. There is a $5 cover charge, but admission is free with a CD purchase. Saturday night from 9 pm to 1am the scene shifts to Charley's. There is a $3 cover. The CD purchase price is $10. "The live tracks are from the Pohaku Rock Fest at CD Wizard last year," Veilleux said. "(Sound engineer Dave) Millington recorded it on 16 tracks of ADAT (a multitrack digital tap format), which I dumped onto my computer and mixed down and mastered. All other mixing and mastering was done right here." "Right here" is Veilleux's garage in upper Puna. In that relatively small, enclosed space is enough room for the entire band to rehearse, plus a small corner with two small but versatile mixing boards and a desktop computer. There are small monitor speakers strategically placed and the garage is soundproofed the old fashioned way; with all-weather carpeting, canvas drapes and a shiny, blue synthetic sheet on the ceiling. It is the same place that Veilleux engineered and co-produced a Hoku-nominated CD for alternative rock band Liquid, which is now known as Living In Question. "We did a music video with Mari-Lynn Video downtown for our song 'Just Like Me,'" Veilleux said "We did sort of a James Bond spoof and dressed up as different characters and taped probably six hours of footage that we edited down to five minutes. That's a bonus track. You put the CD into your computer, and you ought to be able to check out the video." The other members of the band are guitarist-vocalist Gardner DeAguiar; alto saxophonist-female vocalist RaVani Flood; tenor and baritone saxophonist, the Rev. James Seaquist; drummer Ian Miller and bassist Chris Strain. Strain is the newest member of the band, having replaced Sequist's stepson, Jesse Shaternick, and also the youngest, at the age of 17. He and Miller, who is 18, are both graduating from Hilo High School this spring. "Ian will be leaving," Veilleux said. "He's got a scholarship to go to Berklee this fall." "They were auditioning drummers, so I accepted," Miller quipped. Former TD bassist Shaternick will be joining Miller at the prestigious Boston music school. Both were accepted and awarded scholarships after auditioning for school instructors in Seattle. "That's the thing about this band is that we've gone through a lot of different members," Veilleux said. "And that's kind of the idea behind this CD. It's called 'The Future's Past Part 1: The Meantime.' There are different tracks from all the different incarnations of the group and all the various members that we've had. It's dedicated to all the past and future band members. "Of course, we don't know who those future band members are." "They're waiting in line, though; we know that," band manager Glenn Fernandez added. "I'm sad to see people go but I have no doubt that we will find musicians who are eager to play with us," Flood said. Flood may be one reason Fernandez says prospects are "waiting in line." "She has great stage presence," Veilleux said. "Everybody loves RaVani," DeAguiar added. Flood said she loves her band mates as well. "This is the first band I've been in, " she said. "People are always telling me how unusual our group is. Not just as far as the music we play but that we get along." That's right. Although the band worked hard on it's music during rehearsal, the mood was light and rock roll was fun, like it's supposed to be. Everybody laughed. Nobody talked stink about other bands, former band members or exes. In fact, the body of DeAguiar's bright orange Ibanez guitar sported not only TD's sticker, but the stickers of several other local bands, such as L.I.Q, Mixjah and Redd Dirt. "Gottah represent," DeAguiar said and raised a clenched fist to show his solidarity with other musicians. The CD, which is already getting airplay on K-Hawaii Radio, has colorful graphics in Japanese anime style, drawn by DeAguiar. Fernandez, who is also the band's webmaster (www.technicaldifficulties.net) added computer enhancement and Veilleux's wife, Heidi, did the layout. "We didn't farm is out to anybody," Fernandez said. "We have our own graphics department in house." "That's right," DeAguiar concluded. "It's completely homegrown." Poignant & Eclectic. May 16 - 31, 2002 By John Burnett For the Hawaii Island Journal - Island Beat Technical Difficulties: The Future's Past Part 1: The Meantime Technical Difficulties is an eclectic East Hawai'i progressive rock band that's as hard to pin down as a shape-shifter in a house of mirrors. They are highly danceable, yet musical enough for those who just like to listen and do their dancing on the inside. The current band lineup consists of: Trever Veilleux, guitar and vocals; Gardner DeAguiar, guitar and vocals; RaVani Flood, alto sax and vocals, Rev. James Seaquist, tenor and baritone sax; Chris Strain, bass; and Ian Miller, drums. TD will soon need to find another drummer as Miller, who is 18, has been accepted at Boston's prestigious Berklee School of Music. This 10 cut CD contains three live cuts recorded at the Pohaku Rock Fest at CD Wizard in Hilo by Dave Millington. The rest were recorded and mixed and the entire CD mastered at Veilleux's garage studio in upper Puna. The musicians include most of the past incarnations of the band. There is only one cover, a punked-up version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back." The originals go from funky ("Funky Pants") to punky ("911" - which has nothing to do with September 11) to spacey and mysterious ("Black As (Night)"). The music goes through changes, usually in time signature and tempo, that are rarely predictable and lyrics are clever and sometimes classic, such as: ("Underwater Mammals") - "Underwater mammals watch 'Flipper' on TV, but they don't get good reception underneath the sea. Underwater mammals end up in tuna cans, taste real good on crackers, you can eat 'em with your hands." Definitely not for the politically correct or the humorless. There is also Flood, the band's only woman, who can flat out wail. The version of "Funky Pants" is live with some great scat and there's little doubt that every guy present - and probably some women, as well - wished that Flood was sing the line "I got it for you bad, so give it to me good" to them. The crowd was overflow for their CD release party the night of 4/20 (perfect) at Charley's Bar and Grill, where they are now regulars on Thursday nights. Bottom line - if you like rock, see TD live and buy the CD. They have a studio only CD coming out this summer. I can hardly wait

Additional Info Comming Soon in 2003, Technical Difficulties new CD,

Location Hilo, HI - USA

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