Mikee – Sure. We started Huntingtons in about 1995. We had done a couple of other bands before then. We have had 13 total members since then, which works out to about one or two new ones a year since we started. We signed with a small label in 1996 and two records for them before they went under. In late 1997/early 1998 we singed with Tooth & Nail Records since then we have done 4 full lengths for them. Toured the country 10 or so times. Did a European tour a few years ago. We have played with Joey Ramone twice at CBGB’s. I’m trying to put all the little highlights in here, but it’s been about 7 years.

Mikee – Not too bad. This latest line-up is probably the most different style wise, because all of the people come from different backgrounds. Before we kind of searched out people who came from the same background as us musically. This time we just kind of went for people who were just talented musically, they are talented people who were interested in playing with this band. Not that this is their favorite style of music necessarily. So it’s interesting.

Mikee – It has actually helped us a great deal. Me and the other guys in the band didn’t really see eye to eye with him in the last few years, and that kind of held us back, because we couldn’t really agree on things. It has enabled us to tour full time now, because everyone in the band gets along great and has the same vision. At first we thought it would hinder us a lot, because he was always the guy that people talked to and kind of was the loud guy, but people have been accepting it pretty well so far, so its been great.

Mikee – To a certain extent. The good part about it was that it actually got us a chance to play as Joey Ramones band twice. Like we did one show at CBGB’s that was actually a Ramones cover contest, we won and got to play 8 or 9 songs with him. Then he invited us back again, because he was throwing a party there. So that was cool. We did a tour with Markee Ramone in Europe in 2000. So to a certain degree it was really cool because we got to meet and play with the people that invented the music that we are playing right now. It was an incredible honor. But what we didn’t realize is that people can be very feeble at times. They will pigeon-hole you or put you in a corner in a second as soon as they can put a label on you and don’t want you to be anything else. So when we got that Ramones tag, it was like, ‘oh yeah, we’ll roll with this for a while,’ and it was kind of cool. And then it got to be a thing, without hearing about how we were a Ramones rip-off band. And that’s not really how we wanted things to be permanently. It’s kind of our fault for taking things to such an extreme.

Mikee – A lot of mid-90’s Lookout! Records bands like The Queers, Screaching Weasel, Mr. T. Experience. Late 50’s and early 60’s Buddy Holly and Beach Boys surf rock type stuff as well. That is kind of where the Ramones took their music from. It was the same simple patterns and everything just modernized a little.

Mikee – Lately, there have still been ones about a girl, but they have all been about my wife. There’s lots of things you go through being married that you can pull from and make good songs. Being on the road and meeting certain people, a lot of our songs that sound like silly made up people are actually about people that we have met. "Jackie Is An Athiest" is one of those, and is actually about a girl who is an atheist and the whole thing is completely true. Just kind of anything that we experience, we try not to keep it over the top serious, just keep it fun.

Mikee – We are all Christians in the band. We don’t promote that or preach that at our shows or through our music much. But we are very strong in it, and we are not the kind of people who are going to back down if we are questioned about it. We are not big into politics or animal rights or anything like that. It’s just kind of a fun band, but if we are ever going to be serious about anything it will be our faith in God, because that is something that we are pretty serious about.

Mikee – Yes and no. A lot of people won’t even give Christian bands a chance. They see Tooth & Nail on it and they automatically assume. We have people that will like the Queers and Screaching Weasel and other bands that sound just like us, but at the same time won’t give us a chance just because of the label.

Mikee – That has always been the dilemma with us, we kind of get it from both ends. The Christian market is very strange; they censor a lot of stuff. Right now there’s a lot of stuff slipping through, I’m not sure how. Amazingly "What Would Joey Do" made the record, we had another songs on that album that got cut and it wasn’t anywhere near to the level of "What Would Joey Do". I don’t know what to say about that, except that we get it from both ends.

Mikee – It is true. We had an option record left with them. They didn’t renew the option so we are now done with them. It’s been effective as of this summer. We have a couple labels that we are talking to and we are trying to get other people interested.