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# Music Appreciation: Boston
- URL: https://www.sweatyspice.com/music-appreciation-boston/
- Published: 2024-01-21T17:16:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-21T17:16:03.000Z
- Description: Tom Scholz is a gifted practitioner of the music arts, and the original Boston album is his gift to all of us
- Author: Geoff Anderson

Flashback: Late 1970’s. Unlike former president Clinton, I actually inhaled the smoke of wisdom. After some of the shitty weed[1](#footnote-1) we got back then, I would don the headphones, and spin some vinyl on my cobbled together stereo system, and just tune out.

One of my favorite tracks was side B, track 1 of the first Boston album. The song? Foreplay/Long Time[2](#footnote-2).

Starting with a slow jam that over about two and a half minutes builds to a crescendo, before launching into the song “Long Time”. At the time, for a band that was courting airplay on the FM band, that was a risky track to make a 7:49 track.

Didn’t matter, it fucking rocked. It rocked then, and it still gives me shivers in my spine today as I listen. I am transported into my darkened room, buzzed, with the best headphones my paper route money could afford.

The whole album is great, but this song, and “Smoking” are my two favs.

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1. We were the ass end of the pot distribution world, so we got [shake with tons of seeds and stems](https://www.theonion.com/biden-chokes-up-while-describing-hardworking-americans-1819579072?ref=sweatyspice.com). Sure, we got high, but it was very tame by today’s standards… [↩](#footnote-anchor-1 "Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.")
2. Being like 13 years old at the time, I didn’t really grok what “Foreplay” was yet.

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