NY'S Eve at Silo's

Rudy Colombini & The Unauthorized
Rolling Stones

Tickets $100 Available at: www.silosnapa.com Date: Dec. 31 

(NY’s Eve) Time 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. 

The Rolling
Stones wasn't the band you would ask to play at your wedding or graduation. But they were the perfect band for a New Year's Eve party.

Silo's will offer
the next best thing, with a New Year's Eve performance of Rudy Colombini and
The Unauthorized Rolling Stones. The Bay Area-based tribute band will play two shows Dec. 31, one at 7 p.m. and another at 10 p.m. "It's sassy, rockin' music that's always fun," Colombini said.

The Rolling
Stones were the music the Baby Boomers, and possibly even Generation X,
listened to at parties while in college, Colombini said. Mick Jagger and the band offered not only music that carried people away, but a performance that captured their audiences, he said. "It's very positive, has strikingly intelligent lyrics, and is very sexy," Colombini said. "The Stones are probably the greatest of rock bands that ever was." Colombini and his band have endeavored to emulate every aspect of the Rolling Stones experience, including the strutting antics of Jagger himself. "It's the entire package," Colombini said. "We try and deliver a mock Stones show. We try and make you feel like you are there, and really close up."

Jagger and Keith Richards were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, but lost touch after Jagger moved. In 1960, they ran into each other at the Dartford Railway Station, as they sat waiting to go in opposite directions. Jagger was holding a Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters record in his hand, which Richards noticed. This encounter prompted them to start the Rolling Stones.

The origins of the Unauthorized Rolling Stones were not quite as romantic, Colombini said. Colombini was raised in North Beach and first got hooked on music after buying Elvis Presley's record "Baby, Let's Play House." 

"I brought it home and I got addicted to it," he said. "He was the first act that I went hog crazy about." Colombini is primarily a vocalist, although he plays guitar and harmonica."I call myself the great dabbler," he said.

Colombini spent
his early career attempting to break through with his own music. He was fairly
successful, but hit a road block in 1998 after one of his songs stalled at 30
in the top 40 charts. For an artist to make it, they need a song to linger in
the top 10, he said. He went out one night and decided to sing blues instead of his originals, he said. Someone mentioned that he sounded a lot like Mick Jagger and suggested he start a tribute band.

Colombini
approached bass player Kenny Crampton and guitarist Mark Banning about the
project. The other two members of the band, drummer Jeff Irving and Dave Garcia
on guitar, were recruited through advertisements.  The band is starting their 14th year together, Colombini said. They have toured the country and the world, opening for artists like Elton John. Each has been playing music for more than 40 years. "We got into music because it put a smile on our faces," he said. This year marks 50 years of Stones music. Colombini is looking forward to embarking on the 51st year with a New Year's celebration at Silo's. 

The band plans to
play a few acoustic Stones songs, give a performance of the band's classic
"Midnight Rambler," and mix in a few originals, he said. 

The Unauthorized
Rolling Stones has been playing at Silo's for the past five or six years, and
has always drawn a packed house, Colombini said. "If you like rock and roll and you like the Stones, you're in the right place," he said. To sample their music, listeners can download a free app listed under the band's name. 

Guests of both New Year's shows will receive champaign on arrival and party favors. For the early show, Marco Ruiz, chef and former owner of Pasto Prego, will prepare a three-course meal including dessert as part of the ticket price. 

The late show
will include dessert chocolates. Champagne will be served at midnight.

Tickets for each
show are $100 and are available at silosnapa.com Please email Silo's Manager
Keith Stansberry at  keith@silosnapa.com
or call him at 707-280-7526 to discuss before you buy.

"We have the most rocking New Year's party in Napa," Stansberry said. "I mean who else has the Stones (Unauthorized or otherwise)?"