Boston guitarist asks Huckabee to knock it off

[semillama]

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/14/more-than-a-feeling-writer-says-mike-huckabee-has-caused-him-damage/

"Dear Gov. Huckabee:

It has come to my attention that your campaign’s use of my song More Than a Feeling and my band’s name BOSTON has resulted in a great deal of false information, which it now appears may exist permanently on the Internet.

While I’m flattered that you are fond of my song, I’m shocked that you would use it and the name BOSTON to promote yourself without my consent.

Your campaign’s use of More Than a Feeling, coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member “of BOSTON” clearly implies that the band BOSTON, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.....

...BOSTON has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything BOSTON stands for. In fact, although I’m impressed you learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama supporter....

...As the “straight talk candidate,” I hope you will help undo the damage still being caused by this misleading use of BOSTON and More Than a Feeling.

Still evolving,
Tom Scholz for BOSTON"


Like the dig at the end!

[graywarrior]

1. Ha!

I love it!

[Orsino]

2. Wait. Now Huckabee's the straight-talk candidate?

But good golly, how hard is it for a campaign to contact an artist or publisher for an okay?

[Breeze54]

3. I love this letter! I luuuuve it!!

:D

Well said and well written and now it needs to well spread! :P

:yourock:

Save Boston from that fool!! :woohoo: :woohoo:
(Not that I was worried that my hometown would go for that moran!!) :P

[DS1]

4. Refucklican candidates sure love to just take whatever they want

for their campaigns.

[MissMillie]

5. why can't GOP candidates find campaign music from Ted Nugents catalog?

jeez....

[SacredCow]

11. Yeah- no kidding....

"Stranglehold" Says exactly what they want to say, no? :rofl:

Here I come again now, baby
Like a dog in heat
Tell it's me by the clamor now, baby
I like to tear up the street
And I been smokin' for so long
Ya know I'm here to stay
Got you in a stranglehold, baby
You best get outta the way

Road I cruise is a bitch now baby
But no, you can't turn me round
And if a house gets in my way, baby
Ya know I'm tearing it down
You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
Then I crushed your face.

Sometimes you wanna start higher
And sometimes you gotta start low
Some people think they gonna die someday
I got news, ya never got to go

C'mon, c'mon up...

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon baby
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon up
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon baby
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon

Road I cruise is a bitch now
Ya know ya can't turn me round
And if a house gets in my way
Ya know I'm burnin' it down
Ya ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
Then I crushed your face.

[SacredCow]

6. though I was never a huge Boston fan....

Tom Scholz is uber-cool!

I'll take this opportunity to thank him (again) for his marvelous invention:

[LynneSin]

7. Can't these people pick something from the Toby Keith/Lee Greenwood/Britney Spears catalogues?

:shrug:

[Beausoleil]

8. It's the Raygun method

Steal music to promote yourself without getting permission and without a clue as to what the lyrics mean. Obviously the lyrics here aren't as meaningful as "Born in the USA", "This is Our Country" or "Little Pink Houses" but it's the same "Look at me!, I'm cool!" mindset, pandering to younger voters (they think). You would think they would check to see if the creators and owners of the rights to the music they want to steal have ideals diametrically opposed to their own.

[redqueen]

9. Hahaahah...lovely.

I love how so many conservatives just think they can use whatever they like without asking. Fargin hypocrites.

[rocktivity]

10. Actually, Tom, it's John McCain who's known as the "Straight Talk Express"

But he's just as bad.



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