DAPHNE, Ala.—John Lennon was killed almost 30 years ago. However, his legacy still made an impact on at Daphne High students.

The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus on Tuesday visited the school, allowing the student band to record and produce a music video using the latest equipment.

“Seeing stuff like this in person is pretty cool,” said Adam Locke, band drummer.

The bus is a non-profit, mobile recording studio dedicated to providing students of all school levels the chance to create music and produce video projects. It travels around the country to schools, showcasing their instruments and the audio and video recording studio inside the vehicle.

“It’s really hands-on,” said Trey Fyock, trumpet player. “They set up the stuff, but we came up with all the music stuff. They just started with a drum beat and we went from there.”

The bus arrived at Daphne High School around 7 a.m., and band members worked on their music video from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.

“All day we’ve pretty much been brainstorming ideas and what we’re trying to do,” Fyock said. “We decided to put a few of our favorite genres together.”

Bus representatives asked each band member what music styles they liked and what they wanted to incorporate, Fyock said, and then the song blended the ideas together.

“They even have a banjo,” said Rick Faison, school band director, about the different styles of music incorporated into the song.

Some students put on face paint for the music video, which incorporated a zombie theme.

“I guess with Halloween coming up the production guys gave them (students) the idea,” Faison said.

They showed the video at LuLu’s Homepoint Marina in Gulf Shores Wednesday.

Band members Seth Dunagan, Pierce Parker, Wilton Cassibry, Drew D’Olivera, Jimmy Small and Sammy Morse joined Fyock and Locke for the all-day activity.

Though not all Daphne High students were allowed inside the bus, they all did see some of the equipment and instruments displayed in the school auditorium.

The bus visited Baldwin County two years ago and stopped at Fairhope High School and Robertsdale High School.

Lennon was a guitarist, singer and songwriter for the popular 1960s and 1970s band The Beatles, producing songs like “Hey Jude,” “Let It Be” and “Yellow Submarine” before writing “Imagine” as a solo artist. He was shot and killed Dec. 8, 1980.