Willfully elongated

Bands on the run I've been on and off the road most of my adult life. When I was 21 I packed my bags and went to grad school in England. Bags consisted of some clothes, a racing bike and hifi. At the time, in the late 80s, I had a shitty combo unit – tape deck, radio, vinyl. My vinyl collection wasn't enormous – Clash, Zeppelin, Doors and some other random stuff. We were poor students and mainly swapped cassettes – C60, C90. Up and down between Scotland and England on British rail with increasingly more sophisticated Walkmans. Next time I hit the road in 1990 it was for the US. Bag of clothes and bike. I bought a combo tape deck, radio, CD player in Target. More cassettes and some CDs. Sisters of Mercy and god knows what. Back to the UK where my CD collection expanded and I bought a Marantz CD and and Arcam amp then France. Bag of clothes, bike and CD combo. After a year I got my father to post the hifi “components” after a year. More CDs. Bigger, bette...