BOSTON Guitarist Wants To Pull The Plug On HUCKABEE For Using Hit Song

According to FoxNews.com, BOSTON guitarist Tom Scholz has penned a letter to Mike Huckabee over the former Arkansas governor's use of his band's moniker and hit song on the campaign trail.

The production wizard, composer and mastermind behind the hit '70s stadium rock band is asking Huckabee to help "undo the damage" he apparently caused by the "misleading" use of his band.

While on the campaign trail late last year, Huckabee played bass on covers of the BOSTON song "More Than a Feeling", and even invited former band guitarist Barry Goudreau to play with him.

Though the GOP presidential candidate more commonly jams to covers of "Mustang Sally" and "Sweet Home Alabama", Scholz said in the letter he's "shocked" Huckabee would use his band's music without his consent. He complained the gigs would live on forever on the Internet.

Read Scholz' entire letter to Huckabee below.

"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"