I have recently become more acquainted with VAST. A few songs have seeped into my music library over the past year mostly due to the fact that songs were used in tv shows. But I am now fully committed. VAST is one man and one man only, Jon Crosby. Crosby grew up in Humboldt County, California, and at the age of 13, was profiled as a promising guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine. He was nearly signed to the guitar-based label Shrapnel, but decided to turn it down to hone his songwriting chops. Crosby soon left high school to do home study, and set out to form a band to perform some demos he recorded all by himself, under the name VAST. Although he was able to play shows, the band was a revolving door of members, with Crosby still recording demos all the while. With its roots in Nine Inch Nails- like soundscapes and reminiscent of Type O Negative's mellower moments, the ingredient that sets VAST apart from its contemporaries is Crosby's experimentation with samples not yet touched upon in rock music. Lovers of ambient electro-rock will undoubtedly agree upon hearing Visual Audio Sensory Theater. If you're unfamiliar to VAST, One More Day, Don't Take Your Love Away, Touched and Beautiful are good ways to wet your beak.
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