V.A.S.T. – Visual Audio Sensory Theatre

Posted by LSama on May 5th, 2009 in Music Stuff | 0 comments

Last night, I had the distinct pleasure of going to the 8×10 and seeing Vast play. They were heralded by two other bands. The first one, The Electricites..eh. I was not impressed. After that was Into the Presence which, I have to say, was a damned good band. They’ve got a myspace here, and I highly recommend you listen to them. There was kind of a Plant feeling to them, but not in a bad way.  I was really impressed with them. Apparently, they’re from somewhere out west and the lead singer/guitarist is a child prodigy. Which explains a lot, let me tell you. The guy can play like no one’s business.

And then, there was VAST. The first licks started playing and I started crying. Nothing can prepare your for it, really.

I understand that I take listening to music to a very extreme level; music is crucial to my happiness. You know that question, “If you had to pick between going deaf or blind, which would you choose?”, the answer is very, very easy for me. Blind. No hesitation. I can’t imagine not being abot to listen to music anymore. I’d be absolutely devistated.

So to be able to see and hear, in person, a band that I’ve been in love with for nearly a decade, it was very powerful. Combine that with how moving and powerful Vast’s music is? Yea. I was in tears pretty much the whole performance, but it was awesome. Vast sounds amazing live. I don’t have any other personal references to go by, but I’ve heard live performances before and some of them sound atrocious – G’n'R comes instantly to mind.

Not Vast. Jon sounds amazing, has a great stage presence, knows what he wants out of his music, and played pretty much every song I wanted to hear including Pretty When You Cry and Touched(the latter being the very first Vast song I heard, and still gives me goosebumps). They played a lot of the older Vast stuff, which made me really happy; it was nice to hear it. I was worried they’d play all new stuff – which isn’t bad, don’t get me wrong! – but I didn’t want to hear just that.

I do believe that was the best $60 bucks ever spent. Ever.