"The Steubenville Boy's Choir" - A SWITCH Moment

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When our first few hits came out, "There'll Never Be'', "I Wanna Be Closer", "I Call Your Name", etc we were touring the whole country. Because of the popularity of the group we had fake names when we would check into our hotels. Why would we do that?

Well when artists come to perform in different towns true fans know how to find where the artists are staying, they know the schedule etc. We learned from Jermaine Jackson that you need to have some type of diversions for the fans. For example, when the Jackson 5 were up and coming Jermaine told us that after a concert they would have 2 limousines with dark windows go one way and the brothers would hop into a Volkswagen, after the crowd followed the limo's and go a different direction. This diversion was very successful.

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So what was our diversion? Jody Sims, our original drummer was from Steubenville, Ohio which is a pretty small town. We traveled around the country as "The Steubenville Boy's Choir". When we would check into our hotel, the hotel knew that we were SWITCH, but they would make our rooming list out as The Steubenville's Boy's Choir. This list showed our rooms but we all had fake names on the list. I think Greg was Jack Daniels, I know that I was D. Pepsi and I can't remember some of the others right now. Did it work? Absolutely! I remember one time some fans were trying to find different ones in the group and they had seen the rooming list by accident, and they said "this isn't the list". A true diversion.

Phillip

We definitely had a lot of fun back then traveling under a different name. playing in different cities. There were still some fans that would find us, which always happens, but for the majority of the fans, they couldn't find SWITCH, the only found The Steubenville Boy's Choir.

Until Next Time - Phillip