Boston went straight from demos to a contract for several records with Epic. They didn't have to do any club gigging to get signed or reach #1 on the charts. Tom Scholz was early in at MIT with progressive analog sound advances right into the Midi digitalization era There was another band that also went from demos to contract to almost instant success, Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders I've never thought of any band as fake, even the Monkees and the Bay City Rollers. Their albeit young fans accepted them as they were. All bands have soul