Lead Singer:            Phil Dreyer
Keyboards/Guitar:    Bob Schneider
Guitar:                    Grant Garriott
Bass Guitar:             Steve Lundquist
Drums:                    Linda Paulson

The band gets written up in Honeywell's internal publication, The Circulator (20 Jun 88):

Honeywellers Rock Through "Midlife Crisis"

Five Honeywellers get together once a week for a jam session.

The employees jam to music from the '60s, '70s and '80s.  They are "Midlife Crisis," a classic rock and roll band.

The group was first formed in 1984 by a group of Corporate Information Management (CIM) Multicians, who first called themselves, "Ring Zero and the Null Pointers" (a computer term).  Members of the group have changed throughout the years to include five employees, most of whom played professionally before beginning their careers at Honeywell.  They are located at various Honeywell locations.

The group keeps in touch by using Information Resource Center's Bulletin Board, a private electronic mail system.

Each member agrees that they play for enjoyment.  "It's like group therapy," said the band's drummer, Linda Paulson, an Electronics Systems Specialist at Building Systems Division (BSD).  The band practices three to four hours once a week.  "When I'm playing, I block out everything, so it's therapeutic," Paulson said. 

"Playing with Midlife Crisis is a good way to satisfy our interest in music without getting too formal," said bass guitarist Steve Lundquist, Control Systems Specialist at Commercial Buildings Group.

"It's like playing tennis or bowling, it's a leisure activity," said lead guitarist Bob Schneider, Operations Supervisor at BSD.  "It's not for profit; it's just for fun."

Indeed, the group's overall goal is fun, not money.  "We're a non-profit organization," said Grant Garriott, an analyst at Corporate Human Resources.   "It lowers our risk because if people don't like us, they still get what they pay for."

The group plays for friends' parties and informal gatherings such as benefits, company parties and picnics.  The band is looking for other events to play at -- but only when it is appropriate for the group, said lead vocalist, Phil Dreyer, Military Avionics Division.  "Group satisfaction is most important."

"We're really a 'basement band'," Garriott said.  "We've taken over Phil's basement for our weekly practice sessions."