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Ticket to ride the John Lennon Bus

Learning the ukelele
A JLETB employee teaches a student how to play the ukelele.

A group of students gaze in awe at the sleek interiors and cutting edge technology of the The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (JLETB). They watch a music video made by high school students, sitting on the same sofas as the Black Eyed Peas did a few months ago when they created their latest music album. The JLETB is a nonprofit, global audio-video recording studio that goes around the United States for 10 months of the year.

“We get a group of students on the bus and they write and record an original song,” says Kyle Baudour, an engineer on the bus. “They make a music video from scratch, for free, in eight hours.”

Palo Alto High School students got an opportunity to tour the bus and watch some of the music videos made by students from other schools when the bus stopped here on Sept. 20 and 21.

Inside the Lennon Tour Bus
The bus has multiple instruments including an 88-key piano, a drum set, guitars and a ukelele.
The bus parked outside the art building
JLETB employees live, eat and sleep on the bus for most of the
year.
Learning the ukelele
A JLETB employee teaches a student how to play the ukelele.
Playing the guitar
Junior Eric Griswold jams on the electric guitar.
Watching videos
Seniors Gina Scarpino, Erin Riley, Chrissie Cheng and Maryam Hami watch one of the student created videos.
Playing the drums
Senior Jason Brigel plays the drums at the tent the tour bus set up.

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