Steven Bell:  

Starting now and working backwards It's the day after the Friday night 30th reunion party. I'm really glad I went. Since my family moved after our sophomore year I hadn't seen most of my schoolmates for 32 years. With the help of the email roster on the web site I think it'll be easier to stay in touch and the 35th or 40th will be even more fun. The recording studio is pretty much done and it's been a lot of fun to work on the various music projects that come my way. What I wrote last year when I first joined Classmates.com: I am just about finished with the four-year process of building a recording studio. For the last ten years I had been recording various bands out of the small "studio" in my garage and when an up-and-comming band left because I didn't have any isolation rooms I realized I wanted to step things up. Before that I had been in and out of various rock bands. Some were lounge/bar bands others were non-gigging original bands where I played keys, guitar and sax. I was training for my first marathon and playing in a bar band back in '96. It was after a 5K on the morning after playing in a smokey club the night before that I realized I had to choose one or the other. That was the last band I have been in. My wife Karen and I bought some property in Duvall in '93 and lived in a trailer while we built our house. The idea was to have enough room so she could build a barn and arena for her horse. She competes in show jumping. I would take one of the bays of the garage as my music room to work on my album (CD). We had moved into a house in Woodinville that we bought together (unmarried) in '85 after dating for a year. I was able to use the downstairs as my music room. On the weekends I would be pulling in (after a gig and drive home) just about the time she was getting up to go ride or compete. But it was fun. We got married the next year. Never date someone you work with, you might end up with them for life! Okay, maybe just once. I invi...Expand for more