About Me
This band has no past. Literally. We can tell you some things--a little of this and a bit of that--but
Tv HeartAttack is, in fact, a band without a history.
Arthur Guest, Tv HeartAttack's lead guitarist (and when we say lead, we're not kidding: he's got thirty-five guitars) and Ryan, the band's bassist, have spent three out of the past five years in Europe. Having formed the band overseas, they returned home to Canada where they have been performing constantly for the past two years. "We came back," says Arthur, "because we like the musical climate." With them they have brought a melting-pot of ideas and experiences from throughout the world. "The European thing and being from Canada," continues Arthur, "brought us together as Tv HeartAttack and because of our travels we were opened up to an enormous number of musical styles."
Arthur was born in Chicago, but certainly spent little time there. It was in europe (or America, depending who you ask) where He met Ryan, who was born in Osaka but grew up all over North America. Ryan played keyboards in The Frayed Knots with his six brothers before he quit the group to "find himself". He's known to be the most "animated" of the group and moonlights as a tv actor, mostly playing tortured teenage angst roles due to his youthfull zest. Ryan and Jason met on the set of Look Who's Talking 3. Together, in search of adventure and new faces to peer at, they zoomed into Europe, wandering throughout Germany, Italy, England and Spain, blowing amps and minds with astonishing frequency. They finally came to roost in the South of France amidst a warm sunny clime, nubile bodies and a plethora of expatriot American musicians who, having heard of their brilliant but joyously unsavoury reputations, were continually clamoring to play with them.
There they met the remaining member of the band, so that to Arthur's hyperthyroid Keifer Southerland and Ryan's warmth and charm were added Jason Corbett's brain-boiling good looks, and Dominic Coletta's avuncular charm. Jason, the thin man with a thousand voices--some say he is related to John Cusack--was born in either Boston or Burnaby, depending on which day you approach him.
Dominic, short for Dominicolas, hails from Venezuela where he learned his drumming and where his father was an industrialist moving around South America. His family was intrumental in the building of the Panama Canal to which Dominic, who is fluent in english, comments, "That was a long time ago."
While in the South of France, Tv HeartAttack came together, but that is not all. Arthur ran into Ken Saperstien in a dusty cafe one day. They had known each other in Canada and when Arthur told Ken about the group, the latter, being a manager and promoter based on the Westcoast, invited the band to Canada. To Arthur, it seemed like the least likely thing to do. So he did it.
Despite the fact that Arthur and the band are highly unconventional, and despite the fact that Arthur himself has been described by some who are most certainly knowledgeable as "a high risk in the business," Tv HeartAttack's wealth is in their music.
Songs, songs, songs. The band has so many top notch songs that they used to do three separate sets a night of completely different songs. Now, with the rigors of extensive touring, they know better. They've obviously had to cut it down and the fact is that they recorded twenty-one tunes for their debut long-player and could have gone on forever. The band just hasn't any "B" material. Corbett's songs such as "Hypnotic Eyes," "Bang Bang Bang," "This Song Is About You," and "Don't Walk Away" put pure musicality--richly varied melodies, lyrics of both thought and heart--back into rock'n'roll.
But Tv HeartAttack is that rarest of entities, a rock band, aware that the disc and the concert are two separate theatres. On stage, their
spectacular showmanship combines magically with their musicianship to create a total event. You'll be able to see them soon because the band plays show after show, taking thier music to the streets. And, after all, that's what rock'n'roll is all about.
