Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice
Carmine Appice at a Breast Cancer Can Stick It! fundraiser near Dallas, Texas, in October 2015
Carmine Appice at a Breast Cancer Can Stick It! fundraiser near Dallas, Texas, in October 2015
Background information
Born (1946-12-15) December 15, 1946 (age 77)
New York City, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
Instruments
  • Drums
  • vocals
Years active1966–present
Labels
Websitecarmineappice.net

Carmine Appice (/ˈkɑːrmaɪn æˈpiːs/ Italian: [ˈkarmine ˈappitʃe]; born December 15, 1946) is an American rock drummer. He is 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[1] and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014.[2] He is also a more than capable (fretless-) bass player, as can be heard on the "Guitar Zeus" albums, for example. [3]

His best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method.[4] was first published in 1972 and has since been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method.[5] It covers the basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms, linear rudiments and groupings, shuffle rhythms, hi-hat and double bass drum exercises. Appice has claimed that he influenced John Bonham's use of bass drum triplets.[6]

  1. ^ "Carmine Appice Hall of Fame Induction". Classic Drummer. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. ^ "Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014". Modern Drummer. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "None".
  4. ^ Appice, Carmine. The Realistic Drum Method. Alfred Publishing Co. Inc 1995.
  5. ^ Appice, Carmine. The Ultimate Realistic Drum Method. Warner Brothers Publishers 2000.
  6. ^ "Carmine Appice Repeats Claim That John Bonham's Triplet Bass-Drum Motif Was Inspired By His Work With Vanilla Fudge". November 27, 2021.