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}} | website = }}Jon Crosby (born July 25, 1976) is an American musician and founder of the musical outfit VAST.[1] BiographyCrosby 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. It is speculated that his father, who was a lounge guitarist whom he never met, may have been partially Japanese.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} At the age of 13, he was profiled in Guitar Player magazine and Shrapnel Magazine as a rising young star.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} He developed a love for classical music after watching the film Amadeus.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} When he met a girl named Michelle in 6th Grade, he learned to play The Beatles' hit "Michelle" on guitar to impress her. This sparked his interest in The Beatles, and in rock music in general.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} Crosby's other influences include Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, U2 and Depeche Mode.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} He formed VAST in 1993, at the age of 16, after moving to Petaluma, CA with friends Mike Alioti and Dimitri Katzoff, formerly of ska-band The Conspiracy, though that line-up was short-lived and would be frequently supplanted.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} He played few early shows, mainly at the famed Phoenix Theater, where many early acts—like Green Day—got their first big break.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} At 19, Crosby's manager/ex-girlfriend Sakina Sati took him to New York, along with ex-members Daniel Alva and Stephen Garver, for the purpose of shopping his demo tapes through Shiva Baum, former manager for Opiate for the Masses, and a bidding war broke out; he then signed with Elektra.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} Two albums were released by Elektra – Visual Audio Sensory Theater in 1998 and Music For People in 2000.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} In 2002, however, Crosby left the label.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} 2003 saw him break new ground when he released two digital download albums, Turquoise 3.x and Crimson 3.x.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} He then moved on to Carson Daly's 456 Entertainment, where Nude was released in 2004.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} In 2003, he started his own record label, 2Blossoms Records & Media.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} Late 2007 and early 2008, Crosby released five download-only EPs, under the collective title Generica, which was to be "an exploration of people, places and American music."{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} The first three volumes were solo acoustic guitar songs, while the last two were recorded along with VAST band members under the name "Jon Crosby and the Resonator Band".{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}} Crosby stressed the difference between this outfit and VAST: {{cquote|When we put out "April Ritchey" we were toying with the idea of releasing it as a JCRB album because the style was such a departure from previous VAST music. But then I thought, just because the music is different that doesn't mean it has to be a side project. Plus, a side project with the same members seemed a little bizarre. As we were recording the songs that would eventually go on Generica five we planned on putting them on a VAST album. Commercially it would have made more sense because people have heard of VAST but most people have not heard of JCRB. But to me, this music isn't VAST.}}{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}}DiscographyVAST{{Main|VAST#Discography}}Solo
Jon Crosby and the Resonator Band
Other side projects
References1. ^{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p293306|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: VAST|last=Prato|first=Greg|publisher=AMG|accessdate=May 20, 2010}} External links
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