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A Complete Demonstration
''A Complete Demonstration'' is a compilation of early demo tracks by the band VAST. It was made available online in 2005 as a limited edition piece, with the first five hundred copies being signed by Jon Crosby Jon Crosby (born July 25, 1976) is an American musician and founder of the musical project VAST. Biography Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Humboldt and Sonoma counties in Northern California, raised by a single mot ..., as well as being numbered. Track listing VAST albums 2005 albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VAST
Vast or VAST may refer to: * ''Vast'' (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Linda Nagata * ''Vast'' (2011 film), a Dutch film, winner of the 2011 Golden Calf for Best Television Drama * Vast Broadband, an American cable and internet company * Vast Studios, a Canadian video game developer * Fernand Vast (1886 - 1968), French cyclist Acronyms * VAST, an American alternative rock band * Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology, a digital sound synthesis method for the Kurzweil K2000 * Video Ad Serving Template, a metadata format for video advertising * Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, in Thrissur, Kerala, India * Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi * Viewer Access Satellite Television, a satellite TV service provided by the Australian government * Visual Analytics Science and Technology * Voest-Alpine Services and Technologies Primetals Technologies Limited, is an engineering and plant construction company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nude (VAST Album)
''Nude'' is the third studio album by the band VAST, released on Carson Daly's independent label 456 Entertainment. It was released on February 24, 2004. The album is made up of remastered and remixed demos from the online '' Turquoise & Crimson'' releases. A ''European version'' of the album was also released, which includes two bonus tracks and a sixteen-page booklet housed in a cardboard slipcase. The bonus tracks included are ''Falling from the Sky'' (as track 13) and ''I Woke Up L.A.'' (as track 14). With the release of '' Turquoise & Crimson (Retail Version)'', the album was made obsolete, because the double album featured all of the songs on ''Nude'', remastered from their unfinished versions released online, and mixed with many new songs. Crosby marketed the album through his own independent label after his unhappiness with 456 Entertainment. He later claimed that releasing ''Nude'' on 456 Entertainment was a "disaster, and not a very good idea". During the promotional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Music
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Crosby
Jon Crosby (born July 25, 1976) is an American musician and founder of the musical project VAST. Biography Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Humboldt and Sonoma counties in Northern California, raised by a single mother from an upper-class family who owned a record store in Fortuna, California. His great-grandfather was John C. Crosby, a congressman from Massachusetts, and his ancestry on his mother's side is English and Native American. His father was a lounge guitarist whom he never met. At the age of 13, he was profiled in ''Guitar Player'' magazine and Shrapnel Magazine as a rising young star. In 1993, aged 16, he moved to Petaluma, California and formed VAST with friends Mike Alioti and Dimitri Katzoff, formerly of ska band The Conspiracy, though the band line-up changed frequently thereafter. The band's early shows were mainly at the Phoenix Theater. At 19, Crosby's manager and ex-girlfriend Sakina Sati took him to New York, along with ex-memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
''Visual Audio Sensory Theater'' is the debut album by the band VAST, released on April 28, 1998 by Elektra Records. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, with an 18-piece orchestra, guitars, and electronics. Jon Crosby originally signed onto Elektra Records when he was only 17, and recorded his demo EP, ''VAST Is...'' which featured certain songs to be featured on their debut in an unfinished form. He also traveled across the world and recorded demos of world choirs that he used in various songs on the album, which gave the album its trademark world-music theme. The first single released from the album was "Pretty When You Cry". Led by a supporting music video, it gained modest success on the music charts. However, the band's and the album's popularity didn't skyrocket until the second single, "Touched", was featured in a film soundtrack and the music video was put in play on MTV. No other singles were releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VAST Albums
Vast or VAST may refer to: * ''Vast'' (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Linda Nagata * ''Vast'' (2011 film), a Dutch film, winner of the 2011 Golden Calf for Best Television Drama * Vast Broadband, an American cable and internet company * Vast Studios, a Canadian video game developer * Fernand Vast (1886 - 1968), French cyclist Acronyms * VAST, an American alternative rock band * Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology, a digital sound synthesis method for the Kurzweil K2000 * Video Ad Serving Template, a metadata format for video advertising * Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, in Thrissur, Kerala, India * Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology ( vi, Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam) is the largest and most prominent research institute in Vietnam. It was founded on 20 May 1975 as the Vietnam Academy of Science, and ren ..., in Hanoi * Viewer Access Satellite Television, a satellite TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
