Carmine Appice

Biography

Carmine Appice (born December 15, 1946) is an American rock drummer, best known for his associations with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice, Rod Stewart, King Kobra, and Blue Murder. He is also Vinny Appice's older brother. Appice was inducted into the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014. He is credited with influencing later rock drummers including Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain, Aerosmith's Joey Kramer, Roger Taylor of Queen, Phil Collins of Genesis, Rush's Neil Peart, Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee, Slayer's Dave Lombardo, Richard Christy, David Kinkade, Ray Mehlbaum, Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Anvil's Robb Reiner and Eric Singer of Kiss. His best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method was first published in 1972 and has since been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method. It covers the basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms, linear rudiments and groupings, shuffle rhythms, hi-hat and double bass drum exercises. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carmine Appice licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Black Roses

as Vinny Apache

Beware of Mr. Baker

as Self

Skum Rocks!

as Self

Jorge Salán: No Looking Back

as Self

Vanilla Fudge | Live At Sweden Rock 2016

as Self

Vanilla Fudge | When Two Worlds Collide

as Self

Vanilla Fudge | You Keep Me Hangin' On

as Self

Rod's Christmas Concert

Runaway Radio

as Self

Ferocious Drummers