AEROSMITH: BOSTON’S BAD BOYS

Before Boston burst out, when J. Geils was still light years away from growing to gargantuan proportions, Aerosmith’s exuberant arrogance was reinstating Boston’s place of honor on the rock ’n’ roll map. Never mind that Aerosmith’s lead singer was in reality a New York-raised kid born with the unlikely name of Steven Tallerico — as Steve Tyler, he led a merry band of self-styled rogues to blaring, heroic accomplishments.