Paul Salecker

as Mick Jagger

Alvis Salecker

as Keith Richards

Mark Lane

as Ronnie Wood

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as Bill Wyman

Scott Tracy

as Charlie Watts

Joe Ashmead as Guest

Gregg Allman

A Sketch by one of our fans - cheers mate

Paul Salecker as Mick Jagger

Paul Salecker AKA Mick Jagger started singing church at the age of 5 years In 1985 he fronted a Rolling Stones tribute band called Midnight Ramblers for a year.

When country music broke big in the late 80's Paul formed  a country band called TEX who wrote and preformed their own music even having four of his songs published.

Tex opened shows for Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker and The Mamas & the Papas to name a few.

In the early 90's Paul answered an advertisement for Mick Jagger impersonator to join Beggar's Banquet. Over the next 9 years Beggars Banquet played the five states of  Illinois, Michigan, Indian, Minnesota, and Missouri, playing everything from bars, festivals, weddings and corporate affairs.
After nine years the original four members of Beggar's Banquet wanted to call it quits.

After a few years off Paul noticed the lack of a good Rolling Stones tribute band and decided it was time to do it again. After placing an add and going through a few member changes Paul feels that the four musicians
that make up the "new" Beggar's Banquet are the best Rolling Stones tribute band around today.

Except for a few years off Paul has been doing Mick Jagger for over ten years while also impersonating Alice Cooper for the Alice Cooper Tribute Band.

Paul has slept in fancy hotels and dined with kings and queens, slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans, but over the years Paul still remembers the old saying.

IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL ..............BUT I LIKE IT!!!

Alvis Salecker as Keith Richards

Alvis Salecker: lead, rhythm & slide guitar.

A long time Chicago area musician, well over 25 years in the business. He toured with Plain & Fancy, from Detroit, in his early 20's, one of the very first tribute bands in America, featuring tributes to Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Black Sabbath.

Alvis was one of the original members of the Rolling Stones tribute group The Midnight Ramblers, performing then as Ronnie Wood.

He has shared the stage with; David Allen Coe, The Waitresses, Bauhaus, Greg Khin Band, Alvin Lee & 10 Years Later, Johnny Winter, Steppenwolf, Billy Joe Shaver, Sun Rhythm Section, Jerry Jeff Walker, Little Texas, Chris Cagle, The Buckinghams, The Bzzzz, Wishbone Ash, Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost, and a bunch he can't remember!

When it came time to look for a new Keith Richards, the band didn't have to look too far, as Alvis is Paul's older brother.

Coming into his first gig with the band without a single rehearsal, the guys knew from the opening chords of Start Me Up that he was now Keef.

Scott Tracy as Charlie Watts

Scott studied for seven years with Paul Stanger of the Northside Symphony Orchestra & C.S.W.E, once that was done he toured with Rod Voyles Sound Spectrum , a show band of the time.

He also did three years with the Dave Roberts Swingtet , played sessions with various jazz, blues, country and rock artists from all over.

Then he joined Strange Brew , a rock band, spent five years banging the hell out of his kit until he left and joined a band called Pump n Ethel , not sure if that's a sexual position or something to do with filling your car up with gas. Anyway that was a high octane rock n blues outfit. After two years he decided to have a change again and joined a surf, blues, jazz trio calling themselves Shut Up and Play , that lasted for three years until Scott saw an opening in his first tribute band and joined Blizzard of Ozz , a Black Sabbath Tribute.

To this day he plays the drums in the Alice Cooper Tribute Band and of course is Charlie Watts in the USA's No.1 Rolling Stones Tribute Band Beggars Banquet

 

For our fans, you may have noticed that Woody has disappeared.  We are not sure where he went.  Rumors abound that he his doing a "Keith" and having his blood replaced or has also fallen from a palm tree.  There have even been sightings with him hanging with Betty Ford.  We cannot or will not say where Woody has gone but we wish him all the best in whatever comes his way.





 

Mike Wilson as Daryll Jones




Little is known about Mike, he prefers to let his playing speak for him, instead of resting on his past laurels.  We were able to come up some some biographical info that we would like to share.  Mike came to Chicago through the Mississippi delta like most blues players.  It's just that he played bass.  Solo bass guitar just doesn't work for delta blues.  Mike came to Chicago with the moniker of "Blind Lemon Pledge".    He teamed up with "Chief Thundercloud"  on upright piano and they started playing on street corners for spare change and selling church ladies patent medicine.   Mike realized early on in this duo, that a piano and bass combo just didn't work.  He quickly abandoned this for some very productive work in the studio scene.

It was soon after Mike was in the studio's that he was discovered, while painting the walls at Chess studios, by Alvis.  Mike was recruited into "The Web" as their new bass player, after it was discovered that Mike wasn't that good a painter.  "The Web" finally went their own ways and Mike settled back into the shadows.  Mike was then rediscovered ( fixing an old ladies kitchen ) and went to play with " Via Sattelite" and "Icarus".  Mike has shared the stage with the likes of Johnny Winter, The Romantics, The Bzzz's,  Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost, Steppenwolf, Cheap Trick and Alvin Lee & Ten Years After.

That brings us to the present, where through a remarkable set of circumstances, Mike and Alvis hooked up again.  At that point in time Beggar's Banquet was searching for a new bass player and Mike just slid right into place.  Mike's first show was a real joy.  The sound of the band was just what Beggar's was looking for.

We are pleased to welcome Mike Wilson into Beggar's Banquet as Daryll Jones.

Ladies and Gentlemen,