What the F is up with the 22 thumbs down?!!! This guy is a living legend and was an inspiration for John Bonham! If his improvises, who cares! And, anybody who doesn't have some appreciation for Carmine Appice clearly does not know much about drumming or rock history.

The fans love Carmine almost as much as Carmine loves Carmine.

Carmine and Bonzo-both great power drummers.

I met Carmine back in the mid ‘80’s, real cool cat, he was doing a drum clinic in Hamilton,Ontario Canada, just after he left Ozzy’s band and formed King Kobra. He looks like he hasn’t changed much at all, still a hard-hitting power drummer. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

I need Advil that was so painful ....

Bonham makes the music sound easy. Carmine just proved how difficult it really is..

Carmine toured in 1969 with Led Zepplin. Zep was the opening act for Vanilla Fudge that lasted 2 weeks i saw that show in Albuquerque. Sitll remember pretty much the whole thing. That's why i didnt do drug's nor smoke weed. Im 67 years old n i remember the whole show.

This was my first impression of Carmine. He really is a great drummer and an innovator but I really wish this wasn’t how I first heard about him.

John Bonham Told Carmine Appice he got the triplets Pattern from a Song he heard by him & made it his Signature piece as you can hear on Good Times Bad Times. Awesome Drumming on this! 🤗🤗🥁🥁🥁🥁💖💖

Carmine ,s cruisin !!! If the band played a full set ,this bloke would go right off!!A master!!

All icing, no cake!

I was there! What a great show! Good times!!

Great performance, well done Carmine!

Wow. Just officially gave out my first thumbs down on KZfaq. Absolutely murdered the song just cause he wanted to do his little stick flips and wack off with meaningless drum fills. That’s how NOT to pay tribute to one of the greatest drummers of all time.

the Appice brothers are awesome drummers

very well..............................................

I give him an A+ for playing as badly as he can.

With Tom Savini on drums and Eric Melvin from NoFX on the Les Paul guitar...

I was lucky enough to see him do a drum clinic in the 11th grade, in a tiny music store in my hometown. Aside from being blown away (the Octa-Plus kit was his at the time), it's no wonder I have hearing loss now.

If anybody ever wants to know who the better drummer was (between Bonzo and Carmine), just watch this video. #bonzoforlife

My 2 al time favorite drummers.... both super duper faNtastico.

who are these fine musicians and who is this technical master on drums? these kids rock!

Carmine Appice looks exactly how you'd expect a guy named Camine Appice to look.

Does anyone know what kind of Paiste cymbals that he is using? the crashes, hats, and ride. They sound amazing

I can't hear the bass...

Really rushed...they just were not tight enough.. Carmine very disconnected

I came here just to see Carmine and the Rockers because I have much respect for Carmine and Ray his guitarist in the Rockers. Peace and love to all you haters . I bet most all of you were hoping for some kind of recovery. I enjoyed the whole thing.

carmine is an absolute beast and I will put him up there with any rock drummer living or deceased

I don't care who you are. Carmine Appice is a great drummer and has been since Vanilla Fudge. Strong. Busy. Entertaining.

Let's get together to honor one of the greats.....and totally half-ass it!

He was ask to do the song so he did it his way. Carmine is one of the best drummers in modern musical history.

Never will forget my first introduction to Carmine was Ozzy's Bark at the moon video, made my jaw drop!!

Guarantee his brother Vinnie would have nailed it..

John Paul Jones, arguably the most underrated musician of all time was instrumental (excuse the pun) in creating the riff and therefore it’s original time signature. It isn’t a standard 4/4 “beat” although it *sounds* like it... This version is an orgy of egos and it shows how brilliant LZ were.

This is so lousy played...... a shame to use Bonzo's Name by playing such a horrable Version of this Zep Milestone...... no groove.....no flow......no no no........

A for courage, short bus for quality

That guy is killing himself trying to make those high Plant's notes!!!!

He didn't serve the song by dropping into the pocket and groove that is Black Dog. He was more about the one lick he kept doing and looking around seeing the reactions people had as he did it. Bonham would make eye contact because of a mutual feel moment. And yes, Carmine rushed it hard. I can see where as drummers get older and maybe insecure because they're question of relevance they may over do it but whatever. He's done his thing. pretty honarable just to be asked to do such an event. I saw him at a clinic at music land in Bel Air MD in like mid-late 80's, it was cool, but I was turned off when he ragged on Vinnie his brother who I feel has a much more original identifiable style. Fuck it, so many drummers are dicks and have little good to say about other drummers. I think one is born to be a true natural feel player that can move or make another person move to a beat or feel.

YEAH!! GLAD TO SEE MY TEACHER CARMINE AND THE BAND.

Light years away

This was a Train Wreck!!🥁

I vote for Bobby Rondinelli as their next drummer .

Robert Glen...Man, that wasn't a lesson in drumming "Carmine Style". That was a lesson in humility. It's too bad, and a sad situation, when a master mucisian/drummer of his stature, can't even get off his cellphone and share some knowledge and love, with his devoted fan, such as yourself. A paid for, dyed in the true-blue, comrade, at that. It's life in the F-U fast lane; which has become too common of a theme these days obviously you were offended and for good reason. It's not about the $150.00. He oughta be ashamed! Best that you didn't allow the incident to tarnish you. Forever keep your music and love alive. Thx for sharing

I'm at Carmine and he was very cool to me man and he ripped that night with Vanilla Fudge

Along with Paul Whaley (Blue Cheer) this guy invented power drumming and some fine rock tricks, period. We can be grateful for that. Nobody ever played such heavy stuff back in '67 (three plain years before Led Zep).

Bob Rock on vocals everybody!

All the great Zep tunes to feature the drums and this is the one they pick?

When Phil Collins played with "The Musical Box" in Geneve after 35 years, he needed to rehearse for some hours. Carmine obviously did not prepare for that Song.

This kind of events just reminds me how Great was Zeppelin 's sound.. With no many people on the stage 😂😂

magnificent Man N Drummer.. Evidently those with Negative comments aren't aware that JB actually learned from Carmine and CA is just filling in here Graciously....Rock On Carmine..his is maybe 72 here....

fantastic bass tone

The singer has Robert plants hand gestures, that's about it

listen to the riff at 5:40 from CARMINE! Pretty cool!

Man Carmine is a beast! Love that guy ❤️ 🥁

Imagine being more famous for your name, than for your playing??? Such is the case for many lucky so-called musicians!!!

My fav Zep tune by uncle Carmine on the skins and boyz !! A beautie !!

Carmine's a great drummer but he's got one problem. He always thinks he's the show.

Carmine being Carmine! Awesome! =)

he obviously wasn t paying attention when Bonham played his triplets but he still is a good drummer and has his own style he has played with Great Bands an deserves the respect that comes with that. John Bonham was just unique an one of a kind in his playing he was GREAT AT DRUMNING an understood what playing in an with the group meant Led Zeppelin made great music together as a band like no other

Amazing video,thanks for sharing this!😃🤟

This is what happens when you haven't rehearsed and your trying too hard to cover that up

I love how loud the bass is

That singer is hitting some of the notes.

Great Job Guys

At 5:56 it seems me and my friends in the garage 1992 😂😂😂

Carmine, is a great dummer being very skilful and technical as what we see. However, this is a classic real life demo of over cooking the original song to the point of it being terribly bad to listen to. It’s like a drum solo and the ‘black dog’ song is just filling in the gaps.

great cover for me

Why wasn't Phil X listed here? Turns out he's become the best known, highest quality musician of the bunch!

fantastic drumming! good rendition!

The die in his hair and Stache really effected his playing. 😂

Them , s big shoe,s to fill , one song does not make a legend , John Bonham was the hardest hitting drummer of His time and will be forever in My book.

I always respected that beat.

the singer is really struggling to hit the high notes!!!!

Cant count on how many time Carmine fucked up!!! lol

Brent Beberich (Woods) sounds great on Guitar. Brents been going at it since the early 80's. He gets better every time I hear him! Say hi to Daryl in Wildside.

Great！

The band were like " What the fuck is he doing?" at the beginning with that shitter of a solo. Then he goes on to decimate the whole song, and the band has to constantly time shift. The problem with Carmine is, he listens to himself and is so consumed with how HE comes across that he forgets about the band. As far as he is concerned the band can take a hyke. He was so lucky to even be selected for Blue Murder.

After Bonzo died and the rumors swirled about that Carmine Appice might take his spot, the standard surface explanation for his not being given the chair was never a knock on Carmine but that the rest of the band were too great of friends with Bonzo to ever replace him. No doubt that is true, but I'd always also thought that Appice's PERSONALITY would not have fit in with the group. Now, watching this, I wonder if the lads also realized that Appice's (lack of ) MUSICALITY would not have fit, either.

I learned how to do triplets on the bass drum from Carmen‘s video. Say what you want but he’s a good teacher.

Just love seeing Carmine hammer these Vistalites...and Carmine just loves to flail on what he calls FALLING ROCKS...John Bonham does a great job in playing these too...Carmine just stomps these drums with passion...nice to see Carmine put these drums to work ala Bongo himself lol...right on BONGO !!

Carmine has literally made a career out of LZ being his bands opening act for like 5 shows 50 years ago lol That’s how powerful Zeppelin was lol

Respect to John a great drummer.

O vocal desta musica exige muito do vocalista,não é facil ,mas vocês todos foram maravilhosos ....muito bom,parabens a todos

I remember the fudge, Zeppelin was their back up band way back when

one of the great drummersof all time the great carmine appice!!!

Wasn't he Rod Stewarts drummer?

I'm sure it's the position of the camera (mic) but it would be nice if you could hear something other than the bass

A great drummer paying tribute to another great drummer

LOL, totally fucked it up all to hell.

This was a train wreck.

if this was Carmine in the 70's, (and maybe even the 80's) this probably would have been more enjoyable. still cool to see the older greats still rockin out.

My god, man, Carmine is clueless on how to play this song. Also, to the singer. Those vocals are hard as hell. No reason to kill yourself on the high vocal everytime it comes around.

Thst bass is up! Who's the singer?? Carmine is a legend

If I did not watch this and just listened, I would think a jr high kid was playing drums..

Carmine je naprosto skvělý... a umí !!

H O R R I B L E ... my ears are burning... 😫

I think the commentary here is a bit hyper-critical. This wasn’t that bad. Dude has chops. So it was a little loose in places? So what. That’s live rock n roll. Lighten up.

I got respect for his music career and all but that doesn't take away the fact that he just murder the song (and not in a good way).

Appice is one of the originals period.

I gotta watch that keeps better time!!