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BOSTON GUITARIST WANTS TO PULL THE PLUG ON POLITICAL CANDIDATE:

February 14, 2008

For the past few months, presidential candidate and amateur bassist
Mike Huckabee has been performing Boston's "More Than a Feeling" at
campaign events -- sometimes even with onetime Boston guitarist Barry
Goudreau. But now there's a problem: Boston mastermind Tom Scholz, who
wrote and played every guitar part on "More Than a Feeling," is an
Obama supporter, and he's pissed off (a similar disagreement recently
went down between John McCain and John Mellencamp). Below is Tom
Scholz' letter to Mike Huckabee:

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.

I wrote and arranged More Than a Feeling, engineered and produced the
recording, and actually played all the guitars on that BOSTON hit as
well as most of BOSTON's songs, not the person holding a guitar in
your promotion who identified himself as being "of BOSTON." Your claim
that this was "the guy who originally did it" is a bit mystifying
since he never played on that recording, nor has he been "of BOSTON"
since he left my band over a quarter century ago, after performing
with us for only three years.

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.

While this may seem like a little thing to you, BOSTON has been my
life's work. I hold the trademark to the name and my reputation is
inexorably tied to it.

By using my song, and my band's name BOSTON, you have taken something
of mine and used it to promote ideas to which I am opposed. In other
words, I think I've been ripped off, dude!

The unfortunate misconceptions caused by your campaign now live
indefinitely on Internet news sites and blog archives.

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

Courtesy of www.rollingstone.com