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Scott has a great personality and his videos are entertaining and educational. It’s a great service he’s doing, and in the process he’s saving these buses from the scrapyard.

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He offers this service at a great rate and allows the owners to work along side him at an even better rate while learning how to perform the maintenance and repairs themselves. He has gained a vast knowledge of old vintage buses and has a very unique business in which he and his wife Kelly travel the country performing maintenance and repairs on these old buses. His channel currently has close to 100,000 subscribers/viewers. Scott Crosby is the owner/operator of this channel. It’s something I have always enjoyed.Ībout a year ago, while cruising on YouTube looking for videos on a bus repair I was working on, I stumbled upon a great channel called Bus Grease Monkey.

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In the past few years, I’ve become sort of a go-to shortlist bus driver for many bluegrass artists, including Bobby Osborne, Rhonda Vincent, Doyle Lawson, Sammy Shelor, Larry Stephenson, and Sideline. I’ve owned and maintained three of them myself. I was always fascinated with buses and loved watching my uncles and my grandpa working on them. My uncles, the Boys From Indiana traveled in them, and a group I worked for in my teenage years, Jerry Williamson and Redwing, also traveled in one. “Throughout the years, many bluegrass artists, including myself, have relied on customized tour buses for traveling to and from the many venues they must perform around the country. That friendship has culminated in a new theme song for the channel, and now a single released to bluegrass radio. As a result of his involvement in the bus maintenance community, he has become friends with Scott Crosby, who runs a popular YouTube channel called Bus Grease Monkey. Lewandowski of Po’ Ramblin’ Boys being a prominent example, along with bandmates Jasper Lorentzen and Jereme Brown.Īnother such is Tom Feller, whose career has found him serving as both band leader and sideman over the years, and in whichever role, he was often behind or underneath a bus turning wrenches and replacing parts. The tradition continues in the next generation, with C.J. Some that have become notorious for their repair efforts are Allen Mills of Lost and Found, Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band, and David Parmley of The Bluegrass Cardinals and Cardinal Tradition.

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Many noted bandleaders have become experts in bus maintenance, often more from necessity than design, and since the ’60s at least, it was as common to hear discussions in artist parking areas about generator problems and plumbing issues as it was songs and set times. There generally aren’t many diesel mechanics close to festivals held in remote locations, and the cost of having them summoned hundreds of miles from home can be extensive.

Since the early days of bluegrass, at least since converted passenger buses began to serve as the primary mode of transportation for touring groups, possessing the skills to work on buses has been a marketable skill for grassers.