In the movie Rachel Getting Married the film takes place in this wonderful old house that has hallways filled with old albums and rock posters. The movie is well-done but Wonder Boy and I kept getting distracted by that hallway. And how much we were coveting it and plotting ways to replicate it.

We live in a house built in 1900 with fabulous high ceilings and thick, rich moldings. Our stairway is steep with a sharp turn and lots of wall space just screaming for things to be hung on it. So naturally we knew it would be covered in something related to music.

For the last several years we have been collecting rock posters and framing them all with the same classic, black metal frame so they  match, sort of. We have some criteria as to what we will buy and what we won’t because this can be a pricey venture:

  • We both attended the show or, if only one of us did, that person LOVED it
  • The concert AND the poster is cool
  • Not required, but chances are the poster is a sikscreened
  • Bonus points for posters that are signed and numbered
This hasn’t ruled out as many as you would think. While we’ve had some hung for a while now, I just added the newest batch of five and they look great. (And they should. It took way to long to get those suckers to line up just so, but I was determined. And lord knows if they didn’t line up, my anal retentive self would notice it every day!) Check out all the empty space on the wall, though. We have so many more concerts to attend!
My favorite poster is the one that’s not a rock poster at all. Can you spot it?
Second row, second to the right. That’s the wedding invitation Wonder Boy and I had designed to look just like a rock poster. It fits in perfect and gives us an opportunity to reminisce every time we go up our stairway.
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