17 Facts About Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice's best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method.

Carmine Appice has claimed that he influenced John Bonham's use of bass drum triplets.

Carmine Appice received classical music training, and was influenced early on by the work of jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.

Carmine Appice first came to prominence as the drummer with the late 1960s psychedelic band Vanilla Fudge.

Carmine Appice contributed distinctive background harmonies with bassist Tim Bogert.

Carmine Appice played drums on a track on Paul Stanley's eponymous solo album.

Carmine Appice was a member of KGB, which featured Ray Kennedy, Ric Grech, Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg.

Carmine Appice has recorded with artists such as Stanley Clarke, Ted Nugent and Pink Floyd.

Carmine Appice has played with King Kobra and in Blue Murder.

In late 1983 Carmine Appice toured with Ozzy Osbourne in support of his Gold-selling Bark at the Moon album, but shortly afterward was fired from the backing group.

Carmine Appice recorded Caso Cerrado with the Argentine guitarist Pappo.

In 2000, Carmine Appice formed the power trio DBA with Bogert and Rick Derringer, and was reunited with Bogert when they reformed Vanilla Fudge.

Carmine Appice has personally delivered instruments to children in the program and has performed at benefit concerts for the organization and sits on its Honorary board of directors.

In 2006, he formed the drum ensemble SLAMM in which Carmine Appice participated on drums playing alongside four young drummers; the resulting show has been described as "Stomp on steroids".

Carmine Appice recorded Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus: Conquering Heroes.

Carmine Appice was set to play with Vinnie Vincent in a mini-reunion show slated originally for December 2018 but moved to February 2019 before ultimately being completely canceled.

The album is credited to Carmine Appice Perdomo Project, which is a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Fernando Perdomo.