I was definitely considered a bad boy although the hype was far more than the reality.

I got good grades, played middle linebacker for a couple years until my schedule became so busy I had to stop playing (and I was simply too small to play the position in my junior and senior years), I rarely got into trouble, but the thing was I was a singer in a rock band and I was acutely aware of our image and the need to craft it through a stage persona and a pretty elaborate stage show for a band at that level of development. So I certainly portrayed myself as something one would expect a "rock star" to be....and frankly it worked.

In Idaho, western Montana, and eastern Oregon and Washington we were probably as close to "rock star" status as you could get without
actually being a "rock star"

And we took
full advantage of it, let me tell you. Spent a shit ton of money on light shows and flash pods (stage explosions), drank rivers of booze, and took
many liberties with the female portion of our fan base. It's a minor miracle I never got the clap.
But anyhow, behind the scenes I studied various subjects of academic interest intently and was a far different person than my image suggested. Sure was fun though.