“Foreplay/Longtime” by Boston

Tom Scholz wrote Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" as a two-part suite for the band's 1976 debut album: "Foreplay", an instrumental curtain-raiser, runs straight into "Long Time", and the album lists them as a single track, which is how radio has nearly always played them. By Scholz's account "Foreplay" was the first music he had ever composed, going back to 1969, and the first thing he ever recorded, at home in his basement on a two-track recorder.

He plays the lead electric on "Foreplay" through a space pedal and the acoustic rhythm guitars on "Long Time", while Barry Goudreau takes all three electric solos. Scholz sang every part on the basement demo, but his friend Brad Delp came in and simply sang it better; Delp's is the only voice on the finished record. "Long Time" became the band's second single for Epic.

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