Rock The Vote, Unless You're Republican
As more and more indie (and not so indie) rockers line up behind Obama, it's clear politicians of all stripes will be using rock songs on the campaign trail. Will conservatives ever learn? Mellencamp complained about John McCain. Springsteen, of course, had a problem with Reagan's appropriation of "Born In The USA." And Tom Petty threatened to sue George W for using his "I Won't Back Down" (Bush backed down). There are other examples. Now, Boston's Tom Scholtz has written a letter to Huckabee? Read Scholtz's heartfelt missive in full after the Elvis impersonator and Huckabee fuck shit up.
Via Rolling Stone:
Dear Gov. Huckabee:Thanks for evolving, Tom. Really, the GOP should stick with Nugent in the future to be safe. Or why doesn't Huckabee play his own tunes? McCain's daughter might even give it some blog hype.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
Posted at 9:38 AM
Tags: Boston | Mike Huckabee
President of Rock the Vote endorses Clinton:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5990
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This is all well and good...but Boston still sucks ass.
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FUCKABEES.
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Wow. I never thought I'd have to be a Boston apologist but if you'd pull your head out of your indie ass and listen to the first Boston album it's kinda tough to say they "suck ass". If nothing else the fucking guitar tone that Tom Scholz created demands some respect.
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Boston slobs on my knob. Huckabee does too though. He doesn't even believe in evolution. Man, all of these candidates suck ass but I can guess any of them will be better than Bush, besides Hillary.
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That "Still evolving" sign-off was a clever little barb, wasn't it?
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Jehmu Greene, the former President of Rock The Vote, is a Fox News shill. Furthermore, she is a protege of Terry McAuliffe who is Chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President committee. Seems to me this "endorsement" was bought and paid for. But, that's just my opinion.
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RE: Zach: "Boston sucks ass"
This is the kind of comment one would expect from someone who likely embraces the sounds of such two-cent, flavor-of-the-month bands like Vampire Weekend. (AKA hyper-pretentious indie rock-meets-Paul Simon's "Graceland", AKA two musical stylings that don't work well on their own, much less in tandem).
That's not to totally Rhymin' Simon. "Slip Sliding Away" is a great song. And he was banging Carrie Fisher on all fours before any of us knew how give ourselves a good wank. Nowadays, he's shacked up with Edie Brickell, giving a good sideways poke to that sexy hippie snatch of hers. Hopefully she's...you know..."well groomed", unlike many of those unshaven patchouli chicks. But I digress.
My ultimate Rock The Vote fantasy, is for Vampire Weekend to be playing their extended jam rendition of Boston's "Dont Look Back" (you remember - the one they used to rehearse in the student lounge at Columbia); featuring Tom Scholz on lead guitar, Paul Simon playing bongos and Barack Obama reciting Richard Nixons infamous
"Put something in it for the jigs" State of the Union address (http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/rab/rab-9.html) through a red-white-and-blue megaphone.
At this point the "Dont Look Back" jam slowly segues into the 1989 smash, "What I Am", as Edie Brickell and that reformist firecracker-of-change, Nancy Pelosi joins the band on stage; sharing vocal duties and passing out well-rolled spliffs to share with the band and the audience. All in the spirit of "One Love".
As Tom Scholz takes an extended guitar solo, trading wah-wah licks with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, none other than Sheryl Crow comes driving through the equipment load-in entrance in her Pruis. Much to everyone's surprise, our pal "I Like Mike" Huckabee emerges from her passenger door; donning blackface makeup, with a shoeshine kit in one hand and five-string bass in the other. Obama, being the good sport that he is, shakes his head and laughs as the two men embrace. And in the ultimate act of reconciliation, Scholz places one foot upon a chair - while simultaneously playing that wicked solo - as Huckabee willingly and meticulously gives Tom Scholz's Kenneth Coles the best-ever spit-n-polish shine. Tom places his guitar down and the two men embrace. The audience is going nuts at this point, when Tom unplugs his guitar and motions to Huckabee to plug in his bass.
This, my friends, is a true act of bi-partisanship.
God bless America.
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Uneasy LOL @ "a good sideways poke to that sexy hippie snatch"
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@ bubba: Oooo...let's fight! Who's the better liberal? lame.
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@ bubba: Oooo...let's fight! Who's the better liberal? lame.
Why don't you direct your attacks at the real Philistines rather than chasing your own tail?
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@ bubba: Oooo...let's fight! Who's the better liberal? lame.
Why don't you direct your attacks at the real Philistine rather than chasing your own tail?
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Michelle/mzoeomew:
Lame? Jehmu Greene is a paid hack of Terry McAuliffe whose leadership at DNC was disastrous. That the Clinton campaign would issue a press release trumpeting the fact that a McAuliffe lackey is endorsing Senator Clinton's campaign is, at best, disingenuous.
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@ bubba: whoa! whoa! so defensive! this type of reflexed defensiveness embodied by obamaniacs is hurting the dem party. personally, i would be happy with either one but it worries me that the sharp tongues of obama supporters toward clinton weakens the party.
"...most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." -nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html
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Boston Rocks
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So quick to assume I'm an "obamaniac." I'll vote for Senator Clinton if she's the nominee. But, I wonder why are you posting the Clinton press release? Are you a Clintonista? Are you defending Terry McAuliffe? In my book, he nearly destroyed the Democratic party. I much prefer Howard Dean and his 50 State strategy which paid huge dividends in the last election cycle. Does that make me venomous or a cultist? All I did was point out that the endorsement of Senator Clinton by Ms. Greene is nothing but quid pro quo. What's really newsworthy is Representative John Lewis' comments in today's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/politics/15clinton.html?ref=politics
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boston slobs knob, CLIPSE RULES, THE KINKS ARE THE BEST!!!
Trill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>infinity>>>>> More Than A Feeling
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fuck huck, a bee/ suck my butt, then pee/ in a jar, not far, from where we're 'sposed to be/ boston fucked carrie fisher, and took a picture/ when she asked if she could see my dick, "Sure!"/ made her purr with my lightsaber/ open up and you might savor/ the flavor or darth vader/ ovary invader comin through sayin "Vote for Ralph Nader"/ refused are fucking dead and they fucking sucked/ neutral milk hotel can't pass the bucks/ but a show at the smell is dope as fuck/ for the rhymed i write they pay me fifteen bucks/ no age, mika miko and even abe vigoda/ but not health, they drink soy milk instead of cream soda
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huckabee's bass is probably a republican too because it's fucking lame.
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"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."
Huckabee is old, lame, and annoying. Sounds like he's EVERYTHING that (capitalized) BOSTON stands for.
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Personally, I'm so damn tired of celebs/musicians voicing their political opinions.
Boston rocks.
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"although I'm impressed you learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama supporter."
Serious lulz!
Still evolving! X-D
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Nowhere near as funny as McCain being denied use of ABBA's 'Take a Chance On Me' for his campaign.
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i like hearing celeb/musicians political views, i'm just fuckin sick of them all being liberal. and why the hell would huckabee believe in evolution? he's a baptist minister
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Little Rachel,
You're "fuckin sick of them all being liberal". Quite eloquent. Ah, an American public school education. Nothing like it. The future of our republic looks bright indeed
Artists are supposed to be above politics, and to have an clear atmosphere up here to create, you can't Douchebags in Suits cutting off funding to the arts and censoring and dividing and talking about "evil" this and promoting "Wars" on that.
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f bo and hitlarry
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public school education? quite the oppisite my friend. public school teaches things like the truth of evolution and global warming, the acceptance of homosexuality and abortion. i endured 12 years of an education system with science teachers who talk to rocks. oh no, i happen to be one of the few who looks learns things for themselves and makes their own opinions.
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