to have a talk about poster art and music. This
Radical Collection: The Art of Rock
meeting would be similar to the several times I visited the Komins from August to October.
I arrive at Ben
A lthough Komins
would describe his colception; filled with well
lecting as a cool thing
Kommins house in Half
used gear. Ben, with his
to do, I think he is col-
Moon Bay at 4:30 in the
(almost falling apart)
lecting and accumulat-
afternoon. Once inside,
purple Art Of Rock book
ing posters to preserve
I’m greeted warmly by
and purple crocs, Komins them and the memories
Ben and the Komins’
fits right in. We walk
that they hold. Memo-
dogs, Marshmallow (the
down his back porch,
ries as a younger man
brown one) and Rebel
past the empty hot tub,
when Ben would go out
(the old one). Ben’s wife,
the full shut barn, to sit
to concerts for a couple
Sheran, is busy prepar-
on a pair of couches that
dollars a ticket. He tells
ing to take their daughter are placed under an un-
me himself that he got
Katherine to soccer prac- covered shade covering
taken back to “The Grate-
tice in her blue Doctor Who socks with a pattern of a TARDIS on them. I’m lead through the house, and although only a few posters are framed on the walls, The Komins’ house is almost a visual overload, from statuettes of jazz band performers to the classical mountain art of Rebecca Holland. The back yard is no ex-