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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.”
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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
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Rivera sat in a soundproof
recording studio at the back of
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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-
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wide-angle lenses, spread out
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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-
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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
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a real recording studio,” said
junior Nate Hawkins, another
guitarist for Top Hat.
When he found out the bus
was coming, Hawkins said he
lobbied Pierce to let his friend
and fellow budding musician,
Rivera, join the band.
“I have a lot of students that
have wanted to continue (with
music), but only a couple have,”
Pierce said.
While he’s always wanted
to do recording projects to put
his students’ work out into the
world, Pierce said the school
simply doesn’t have the technol-
ogy — at least at present.
“Our only goal is to get
involved with music,” Hawkins
said. His time on the Lennon bus
has helped rekindle an idea for
a senior project he and Rivera
had for next year: fundraising to
build a recording studio at the
high school.
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