Around since 1998, the "John Lennon Eductional Tour Bus" is a pretty cool idea...It's a full-functioning, completely mobile, audio and video recording studio. The bus is great because it provides free hands-on training to young musicians and songwriters and you don't even have to pay for gas...The bus will come to you.

On its extensive tour, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visits high schools, colleges, clubs, festivals, conventions and community organizations all across the US. Throughout its tour, the bus offers a variety of training programs including a chance to professionally produce your own song and its video in their "1 day music video production" program, a high school battle of the band with full media nation-wide coverage, access to major artists tours like Shakira, Santana and Elton John and more.

MTV NEWS has just gained access to the bus and gave us a very nice tour of the state-of-the-art, fully mobile facility...It's amazing; just watch the video below!

you can check out the bus tour dates and you can also request the bus to come to you, just visit their website: http://www.lennonbus.org

Sources: newsroom.mtv.com and www.lennonbus.org