Jon Crosby
Jon Crosby
Jon Crosbyis an American musician and founder of the musical outfit, VAST...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth25 July 1976
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician huge mainstream type
We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.
american-musician front people shows
We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great. The warm-ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be.
american-musician listening metal past radio rap since stuff touring
At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.
american-musician gone pop remember rock
Back then, I remember there was a lot of alternative pop going on - that slow, weak, kind of apathetic independent rock stuff, but that's gone now.
american-musician good played
I think any band we played with would be a weird match. We're on our own, a little out there, but it's a good thing. I think we're complimentary to each other.
song want way
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
waiting want kind
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
song pain water
Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.
song real moving
You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.
song thinking feelings
I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.
anger simple escaping
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
song thinking mind
So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.
rap thinking radio
I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.
thinking artist numbers
I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.