The musical ingenuity overshadows the lyric to this song, which finds lead singer Brad Delp hitting the road. Details are few, but we know he's chasing a dream and a bit conflicted about the person he's leaving behind.
"Foreplay" and "Long Time" make up one track on the album. "Foreplay" (the title is a sexual reference) is based around a Hammond B3 organ riff, and is the instrumental intro to "Long Time." The full track runs 7:47, and many radio stations play this version. For stations that have listeners with shorter attention spans, "Long Time" was issued as a single on its own running 3:03.
"Foreplay" is the first song Tom Scholz recorded for what was to become Boston. He wrote it in 1969 when he ws studying at MIT, and recorded it in 1971 with drummer Jim Masdea in Masdea's basement studio. Over the next few years, Scholz made various demo recordings with Masdea supplying drums. When Boston finally got a record deal in 1976, Masdea was replaced by Sib Hashian.
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