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11A THE DAILY ASTORIAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016 Jasmin Abry works as a producer recording sound as Sarah Miller and Beth Mathre sing. Jared Rivera, front, and Evan Lemmy, back, jam while waiting for the lyrics to be recorded for the music video. Emmanuel Goicochea, center, works the camera while the group prepares to film their music video. Lennon bus: Experience served as a revelation for students editing “Springtime Rain” and traveling to southern Oregon. By Thursday, they were holding public tours and music work- shops with students at North Medford High School. Today, they were in Ashland doing the same. “This tour is until the end of May,” Huisman said. “Ten months out of the year, we’ll be on the road.” Continued from Page 1A Firewall company Juniper 1HWZRUNVVSRQVRUHGWKH3DFL¿F Northwest tour and chose Asto- ria as one of the stops after being contacted by the school district’s technology director, Scott Hol- mstedt. Port City Jazz Choir Director Matt Pierce provided the music lovers, who spent much of their Tuesday on the bus learning how to profession- ally produce a song. Inspiration ‘Springtime Rain’ The students of Top Hat, after settling on a name based on their bassist Evan Lemmy’s vin- tage headgear, had to come up with an idea and the lyrics for a single. For junior Beth Mathre, a co-lead singer along with Sarah Miller, it was as easy as looking out the window. “Ain’t it a shame … I never get to dance in the rain,” Mathre and Miller belted out, recording the chorus of their single by late morning. “I was looking outside and seeing that the sky was blue,” Mathre said, adding she started thinking of lazy Saturdays and dancing in the rain, channeling her Gene Kelly-esque inspira- tion into the lyrics of Top Hat’s debut single, “Springtime Rain,” in a mere hour. “It’s not as hard as I thought,” said student Jared Rivera, one of Top Hat’s three guitarists, of the cutting and mixing assembled LQWRWKH¿QDOSURGXFW Rivera sat in a soundproof recording studio at the back of Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Students rehearse their song on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. the bus that doubles as a green room and sleeping quarters for the crew. Recording Rivera’s licks and Mathre’s and Miller’s vocals from another soundproof editing studio in the middle of the bus were Jesper Windmar, one of several onboard engineers, and sophomore Jasmin Mabry, who in her day job provides techni- cal assistance for the lyricists of Port City. “It’s a lot to do with tech and how you personally hear stuff,” Mabry said, peering over the bank of computers in the pro- duction studio, packed with pro- fessional editing software. By Tuesday afternoon, Top Hat and their entourage of engi- QHHUV ODGHQ ZLWK KLJKGH¿- nition video recorders and wide-angle lenses, spread out across the high school’s court- \DUG 7KH\ ¿QLVKHG VKRRWLQJ · For the rolling year ending January 31, 2016 Tongue Point Job Corps Center was #12 out of 126 center nationwide. We have a 90% success rate of graduate job placement. Within 90 days of comple- tion 259 students have been placed in a job, higher education or the military. Tongue Point Job Corps Center 503-338-4924 S U C C E S S LA S T S A L I F E T I M E · TPJCC of ers fi fteen Career & Technical Training pathways, including our Seamanship Program. This program is the only one of its kind in the Nation, drawing 120 students for its 18 month Merchant Mariner Training Program. LIST OF STUDENTS GRADUATING FEBRUARY 26, 2016 : LAST NAME FIRST NAME VOCATION Cisneros Marisol Culinary Arts Cogdill Aidan B. Finance & Business Dale Adam S. Medical Assisting Desiderio Mayra Dental Assisting HONORS Diaz Gonzalez Greisi Dental Assisting Downey Cheryl M. Finance & Business YES YES Ejigu Atsede Home Health Aide Foreman Mariaha L. Dental Assisting Garcia-Bejines Lucero Plastering YES Gebereselasie Elenie Home Health Aide YES Glass Kayla Y. Dental Assisting Gonzalez Trinidad I. Plastering Hall Tabitha J. Painting Joseph Sally Home Health Aide McNeal, Jr. Tyrell C. Dental Assisting Mekonnen Elsabet Home Health Aide Miller Kimberly S. Medical Assisting Moses Mieke D. Dental Assisting YES scenes for the music video of “Springtime Rain,” piquing the interest of passing students and staff stopping to see the spectacle. Out of school, on tour Windmar, a Swedish immi- JUDQWVDLGKHJRWKLV¿UVWLQWUR- duction to the Lennon bus when it visited the Los Angeles Col- lege of Music, where he earned a degree in music engineering. His is a similar story among many of the engineers, mostly millennials and recent music school graduates. While traveling on the Len- non bus is a choice gig, it’s no pleasure cruise. “We do about two of these a week,” said Luke Huisman, another engineer who learned of the bus through a friend. By Wednesday, the engi- neers of the Lennon bus were The Lennon bus experience served as both a revelation and DQDI¿UPDWLRQIRUVWXGHQWPXVLF lovers getting an introduction to professional production. ³7KDW ZDV P\ ¿UVW WLPH LQ a real recording studio,” said junior Nate Hawkins, another guitarist for Top Hat. 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