{"id":379,"date":"2008-02-15T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:05:09","slug":"rock-music-and-presidential-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Rock music and presidential campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tom Scholz<\/strong>,  leader and primary songwriter for the band <strong>Boston<\/strong>,  is upset with presidential candidate <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong>.  According to Sholz, Huckabee is using his 1970s smash hit song &#8220;More Than a Feeling&#8221; as part of his presidential campaign without his permission.    <strong>Barry Goudreau<\/strong>,  a former member of Boston, has appeared with Huckabee at campaign events, and they have played the song with Huckabee&#8217;s band, <strong>Capitol Offense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/mochila\/Rocker_tells_Huckabee_to_lay_off_so_02152008.html\">AP story<\/a>, there was one particular segment that caught my attention&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Fred Bramante<\/strong>, who was chairman of Huckabee&#8217;s New Hampshire campaign, called the allegations ridiculous. He said he attended dozens of Huckabee rallies in New Hampshire and other states and never heard Huckabee play &#8220;More Than a Feeling,&#8221; other than when Goudreau campaigned with him in Iowa in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Huckabee plays &#8216;Sweet Home Alabama.&#8217; Does that mean Lynyrd Skynyrd is endorsing him? <strong>He plays &#8216;Louie Louie.&#8217; Does that mean The Kingsmen are endorsing him? To me, it&#8217;s ridiculous<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Never once has he said, &#8216;The band Boston endorses me.&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, my fellow LOUIE-tics out in cyberspace&#8230;.  could someone please send me a recording of Mike Huckabee and Capitol Offense doing LOUIE LOUIE?  <\/p>\n<p>For the record, Scholz notes that Boston has never endorsed any political candidate, and &#8220;would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for,&#8221; adding that he is supporting Democratic Senator <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a sidenote, the opening riff of &#8220;More Than A Feeling&#8221; borrows from the same chord structure as LOUIE LOUIE.    Blame <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> for pointing this out to <strong>Dave Marsh<\/strong>, who wrote about such things in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Louie-Mythology-Including-Persecution-Introducing\/dp\/047203023X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1203105586&#038;sr=8-1\">LOUIE book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scholz, leader and primary songwriter for the band Boston, is upset with presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. According to Sholz, Huckabee is using his 1970s smash hit song &#8220;More Than a Feeling&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}