Almost famous: Bullied young Irvine rocker and his band get breaks that could launch them to stardom

Akers attends the Orange County School of the Arts. Johnson is at Orange Lutheran. Ryan is at Huntington Beach High. Hickman played in the Saddleback Church Sunday band. Two of the kids are straight-A students. Johnson wants to attend medical school. They wrote six quick original songs and barely had time to practice their half-hour setlist.