Local listeners can hear and feel what he's talking about when TV Heart Attack plays a pair of homecoming gigs: with Retrograde at the Plaza tonight (March 22), and on a triple bill dubbed The Big Show with the Sessions and Curtis Santiago at Richard's on Richards on Friday (March 23). I'm just being honest about what I hear and feel." You know what I'm saying? I don't want to just write simple pop love songs and just be like everyone else. So I'm kind of hoping that I'm delivering, in a palatable way, something that for me feels a little more abstract. There's a bit of a darker element to some of our songs, and yet that's expressed in the confines of a pop song. "People ask me to describe our sound, and it's like, 'Well, it's got this forward momentum.' I always think 'Is this a song I'd like to drive my car to?' It's got to have that feeling, that rhythm to it. You know, when I first heard Led Zeppelin or when I first heard Nirvana or something, I felt like there was a connection there. "I wanted to make a connection with people like bands had in the past with me. "Basically, I just wanted to put out a record of songs that I felt were real honest, confessional," says Corbett. TV Heart Attack is the antithesis of anything that's trendy, and that's no accident. Plain and simple, unhyphenated rock music that harks back to the stadium-fillers of prior decades, from glam-era David Bowie to grunge pioneers Nirvana. That vision can best be described as rock. But in terms of the creative process, it pretty much starts and ends with what my vision is." The songs are kind of written and brought in and then we arrange them together and everyone adds their flair. "So I've spent a lot of time focusing on how I wanted the band to sound and what I wanted the record to sound like. "Playing in bands before, I've found that when there were too many creative forces it just didn't work for me," he explains. Things are going quite nicely for Corbett and his crew, thanks to a lot of hard work and what the singer-guitarist describes as his willingness to be a bit of a benign despot. TV Heart Attack's also cracked MuchMusic: the quintet's video for "Hypnotic Eyes" debuts this Friday (March 23) on The Wedge. The producers of the CTV show Whistler are big fans: they're placing six of Corbett's tunes on the winter-sports drama's next season, and the band will soon tape an on-set appearance as well. And even if he didn't get to swap road stories with Gill, he still got his wish: the record is both polished and edgy, deeply personal yet slick enough to land TV Heart Attack a prominent place on local radio and, appropriately enough, on the idiot box. In the end, Corbett recorded TV Heart Attack's self-titled debut locally, with engineer Howard Redekopp (54-40, New Pornographers) sharing the production credits. I didn't want the album to sound too commercial, but I didn't want it to sound cheap, either." He was kind of an influence on me that way: he just gave me a lot of positive reaffirmation about the music and where I was going to go with the sound of it. "That was frustrating, because Andy and I had spent a lot of hours on the phone talking about the recording process: where we were going to track where we were going to mix. "We were supposed to do a record with him, but we had some funding that fell through at the last minute," he explains, checking in from an Edmonton tour stop. The final paving's not yet done on TV Heart Attack mainman Jason Corbett's path to fame, but along the way he's fronted the Saddlesores, played guitar in Speed to Kill, and has had more than a few celebrity encounters-including one with Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, who very nearly produced the new band's debut.
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