Long ago, before the Internet and YouTube came along, you actually had to
work to prove how untalented you were. Becoming famous was much more difficult back then, and there were but a handful of venues in which amateur musicians—people who insisted they were going to make it big, much to their friends' and families' chagrin—could strut their stuff. If they were really lucky, maybe they could get a few minutes at an open-mic night; but for most of them, the only way to follow their ill-advised dreams was by appearing on their local public-access television station.
Anyone could get a show, it seemed, and all you needed was a clunky microphone, a cameraman, and a 4 a.m. time-slot to be able to watch yourself on television.
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Idolator
When musicians die, they don't just go to heaven—they go to rock and roll heaven, where, as we understand it, they surround themselves with other performersand occasionally get together for an all-star rendition of "Purple Haze." And ever since the invention of airbrushing, numerous brave souls have done their best to portray this wondrous world, with varying results. After the click-through, a gallery of some of their finest work, plus our tips for aspiring artists:
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