Nice to know that I'm not the only one who noticed!

I never knew that. Yeah, they look alike and are prob about the same age. Nice!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Funny, I'm from Pittsburgh where Tom lives this is true.

Fun Fact: Appices mustache was recently inducted into the porn hall of fame cuz he's worn it for 6 decades .

Except for Vinnie's fans that are willing to give him money still in order to see him.

You mean Vikki Vincent?

@Jakob you know it Kid!!!

Absolutely

He crossed over many things...

@@hugolafhugolaf You got that right...

All the guys in kiss did. Vinnie was no different.

He did not!😡 He just looked like a Skinny Guinea!

FTM for sure

No, he looked kinda cute

Exactly. First time I saw him I really thought they had brought on a woman. He's always been strange and kind of creepy imo.😳🤘🏼

I always thought about that, as well. Where usually when someone is replacing a core member of a band, there's all that pressure to be just like them, or better than them, as though the band is better off without that person. Yet Vinnie did just kind of do Vinnie.

Bruce Kulick never tried to be Ace.

He probably should have at least personality wise🤣

@@robert.m4676 I agree, even knowing how bad it has to be to say 'you should be more like Ace'.

@@jamescarter3196 yeah he’s really kinda strange. I wish no I’ll will towards him but he is a bit of an odd ball.

His drumming is great. Him telling gossip from decades ago, not so much. I've listened to a couple of these lately and that seems to be all he does anymore. Obviously lots of people eat it up though; channels like this seem to do pretty well.

He'll even tell you he invented the drumset.

I'll sell you mine for half that,I'll sign it,take a pic with you and even drink a beer with you if you buy it

Is it a carvin?

Agreed

@@blindmelonstubbly All I know is that Vinnie needs alot of work...up in his head.

This is the most true statement every made, THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS GOSPEL

A feel a lot of it has to do with VV protecting himself and what he created musically within the bands he was in. He wrote or co wrote KISS's biggest songs when he was with them and they didnt show him respect financially. The guy stood by his convictions thats for sure....but he stood up for himself in one of the biggest bands in the world and that went over like a lead ballon. KISS did screw him over from a financial aspect.

@@markherring3513 it's funny how Carmine openly says here, "I demanded to be paid royalties for the songs Vinnie wrote." And thinks Vinnie is the asshole for saying, "Uhhhh no I wrote 'em, I get the credit and the royalties, that's how publishing works." Carmine had been in the biz a long time by then, he knew that. He apparently got VV to agree on a handshake deal saying otherwise and then got disappointed by him finally sticking up for himself.. but really, that story says more about him than it does about VV. VV still sounds like a total weirdo of course. And by many accounts, a real ripoff artist in recent years.

Thats putting it MIDLY

He’s a fruity nut job.

@@friedrudibega6384 Are you trying to fry him, too? 😆

Where in East TN?

@@gunnarjordan6980 Rutledge, TN. I think he actually lives in Nashville now.

@@TheMeJustMe75 Thank you. I once lived in Greenville, TN. That’s Eastern TN.

Representing Knoxville here!!

@@gopherb3985 not far from Knoxville

The thing that is creepy is how neurotic V.V. is on stage . On the KISS CRUISE VIDEO , you see the rhythm/ lead guitarist say to Vinny," take a solo" And Vinny pathetically says," i can't'" Kiss, Kould reunite with Vinny, But Ohnk Man Kan't.

Vinny Vincent forgot how to KISS!

Its just a testament of how atrocious he was to begin with.....he played mediocre leads and horrible solos that had no thought put into them at all....just running scales and not even doing that right!

But according to him, he'd been playing guitar for 8 hours a day, every day, for those 20 years. 🤣😂. He's a fucking pathological lying weirdo.

that reminds me of Spinal Tap bitching about that pretty boy talent. “Remembered when he opened for us? the audience was still booing him when we took the stage. WE HAD TO APOLOGIZE to the crowd for HIM”. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do that. apologize for the opening act not realizing those boos are for me.

It's notoriously difficult to open for someone like Maiden though. Some phenomenal bands and the fans are like "fuck off we're here to see maiden" 😂

@Grg Dps The stories are similar across the board about Vinny. I doubt they are all making this up.

I was at the VV Invasion/Maiden show. I just remember VV was so fucking loud to the point of distortion, I had to go home and listen to the tape just to actually hear what songs I'd just seen live.

What’s interesting about (you people) & your alcoholism is that just a few years before the potato famine, Ireland was the site of a massively successful temperance campaign led by the noted Catholic priest, Theobald Mathew. So successful was this campaign that between 1838 and 1841, national alcohol consumption was cut in half.

Now Vivian Vincent

"he could undeniably shred" Thats highly debatable!

@@omniken66 perhaps. I suppose if you peel back all the layers of preamp gain and delay, it probably reveals something lacking.

@@freepressright he lacks everything not just something......

Watching him live when he opened for Alice Cooper was 30 minutes of tapping while he ran around like a chicken without a head on stage. A large group of my friend's and I were on front row ( for Alice....not this goob) and every time he came to our side of the stage we all flipped him off. He quit coming to our side of the stage. If we caught his guitar picks we threw them back. He spent 29 of his 30 onstage minutes with a " WTF????" look on his face 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol

lol awesome dude!!!

Blackie Lawless is slowly morphing into Vinnie Vincent's twin sister.

Well,he to is suppose to be a real dick

I saw him years back in a small bar in st louis. He was literally a giant. My brother named one of our dogs after him.

I saw Yngwie on his very first tour with Billy Shahans band “Tallis” no one knew who he was, at the Newport in Columbus Ohio, I don’t think there was even a full 25 people there…and what a show! I guess since there was no one there the band didn’t care and put on the craziest wildest concert I ever saw! When one had a solo, one of the other musicians would try to toss a beer at them, one time Yngwie snuck up behind the keyboardist and dumped a pitcher of beer on him! 😂

I saw Yngwie live open for Dio, it was boring. 🥱 😴

I saw YJM run across stage ripping he threw the guitar 10 feet above himself spun around caught it and kept ripping right along

Really ? Mark Free the original Bruce Jenner 🙄

Gene said that Vinnie "would hang himself as someone is offering him the keys to the Kingdom."

Comment of the millennium 🤜🤛🍺

I thought you were talking about Carmine.

@Grg Dps Which was more than they should have because... Kiss went on tour to support "Creatures" and "Lick it up" albums they quickly found that they made a mistake having Vinnie in their fold. Because, look at the logistics which come with doing a tour: - You have to hire truckers to move the entire thing from city to city during the tour - You have to hire a crew to build the stage - You have to hire sound crew to make sure the shows sound good every night - You have to hire special effects people to make sure the pyrotechnics of a show will work as they should every single night. (Certainly for a band like Kiss, that's their bread and butter right there.) - You have to hire promoters to make sure the venues can be booked. AND - You have to make sure that every single one of those people hired is insured, because should a calamity happen to that said person, medical bills would be taken care off by the insurance company. So every single member of the tour crew (Which includes the band members themselves) has to sign a contract which in return means: - That they will be insured during that said tour. - Will receive proper payment for their services for the full duration of that tour. - Will be properly taken care of, have a bed to sleep in and enough to eat during the tour. Vinnie let his contract expire which meant that the band was basically touring with an uninsured employee and basically had to pay for hotel stays out of their own pockets. As I pointed out earlier, a Kiss show is a well planned out event, it HAS to be. But Vinnie's solos became longer and longer, screwing up the tightly rehearsed timeline of the show and after coming near blows with Paul Stanley one night, Vinnie was shown the door. He sued the band a couple of times for unpaid royalties but every single time he tried, the band's lawyers presented the judge with the paperwork which showed that Vinnie was paid the amount of money his contract said he was getting when the contract was still viable. And by letting his contract expire, there was no reason for the band to continue playing him.

😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

Ouch!

For a good amount of them, it's called hair transplants or a wig. Don't kid yourself.

Ask Joe Lynn Turner about gettin' your wig on. He did it for years before finally admitting it.

True

How exactly are they criminally underated? Both records went gold, everybody knows vinnies involvement and most of those songs are regular staples in kiss shows

@@toma.4808 mainly due to the fact that their 70s era gets all the love. Also, the band’s musicianship has always been questioned but they raised the bar in the 80s and stifled the critics.

Their 80s output is criminal.

@@toma.4808 lick it up is platinum

..or he may be selfish. Which isn't a mental illness, but a character choice.

@Grg Dps nobody here debating his talent? But his socially awkward demeanor, and inability to deal with the day to day necessities of a working and touring musician, is a tell tale sign that something was wrong. None of these issues are funny, or easily remedied. None of us want to insult Mr. Vincent in any way, and we understand that working with Stanley Eisen and Chaim Witz is perhaps one of the most taxing musical jobs you could ask for. Certainly Mr. Vincent would have found it difficult.

Bruce is a talented guitar player in a technical sense. There's only one Ace. Ace Frehley and Vinnie Vincent are the only musicians from Kiss that have done anything outside of Kiss I even care to listen to. I have all of Ace's records since his 2009 comeback. I like them all. Appice recently said something about Vincent that is very true. He said when he "plays like Vinnie, good blues rock stuff, he's great". He is. I enjoy listening to the Warrior demos album where he writes all the tunes, sings, and plays guitar. Just good hard rock guitar with cool solos. He should do more of that. But the Vinnie Invasion, apart from "Animal" and "Back On the Streets" gives me a headache. There are some songs that have leaked out from his unfinished 90's album, like "Invincible" that have potential, I'd like to hear them fleshed out as finished recordings. But I wish he'd sing them instead of hiring people on helium to wail out the lyrics, and just play some good hard rock guitar. The speed shredding thing isn't his thing. It isn't really anybody's thing. Back in the day it was supposed to be cool, and nobody wanted to admit it sucked and just gave them a headache.

Good God he does! ( look like a gma)

is that really him? I assumed it was a grandma

@UCTreOluMtS2f3uGk4rBlWtQ I’d say that’s not true. Being a bit of a narcissist like some actors are guilty of is a whole different thing from narcissistic personality disorder which, like Klaatu said, Vinnie shows a lot of the signs of.

Make up can fix anything

They're all so utterly un-self-aware, it's actually pretty funny. Appice is one of those who always blames everyone else on the planet for all his projects and bands falling apart.... hmmmm, mayyyyyyyybe there's a common thread there...

Thank you for pointing this out...Carmine is the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.

Man? Lol

Let's not get too over-hyped about that. VV is plenty weird but he's sure as hell not as weird as Michael Jackson. Or Elton John. Or a hundred others. The difference is that millions of people will still love Jackson's and John's songs in fifty years, and already now the only people who give any thought at all to Vinnie Vincent are KISS nerds and people who just enjoy rock'n'roll gossip.

Even calling him a man is stretching it!

He looks like my aunt Connie.....

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

Those things make great pets. They're also very fast.

Not For the Innocent from Lick it Up had awesome rhythm guitar. The solo did not fit at all.

"His playing reminded me of puking: It all came splattering out." - Paul Stanley

​@@aaronfrick4143 Paul played rhythm not Vinnie

😂I 😂😂😂😂

So judgmental...

That’s funny’s

Unfortunately most won't understand that lol he's a bundle of small peices of wood used to start a fire

He doesn't care how you pronounce it. The way he says it, any pronunciation is right.

@@jamesrudd8705 his brother though, hates A-piece.

What?!?

He refers to himself as a male. He's just always looked feminine.

@@dominikaksiazek7177 Whatever the case, I just hope he's happy with who he is.

@Your Average Golfer I get the distinct impression that if you ever do any sort of business with Gene or Paul, you better have at least two different attorneys look it all over before you sign anything. But the entire music biz and showbiz in general seems to be like that.

@UCdc08sehJ-OvT8rol4upIIA yep. That's why I've never felt one bit bad about tape-trading or using Napster or any other kind of "music pirating." Fuck 'em. They're getting plenty rich without my twenty bucks for a CD. Earn your money on the road, you'll scrape by OK on all those 100-dollar tickets people buy.

Vinnie, is that YOU??

Vinnie was never an official member of the band. He never signed a contract with Kiss on either of the albums he did. That’s why he didn’t make shit with them. He thought he was a dude who was gonna take the world by the balls himself and it just didn’t pan out.

Indeed

who knew

Exodus rulzs

Yeah if you can get passed Zetros shitty vocals.

@@samhain6953 what's you're best samhain album

Carmines a badass

I didn't know who either of them were

Having your name on your drums was pretty common in the 60's and 70's. Carmine is a very well respected musician in the industry, Vinnie is not, never has been and never will be. Maybe you could be the singer in "Souless Douche." You definitely seem qualified in one area. Do your homework before you write stupid shit.

@@JokersWild70 I am not favoring Vinnie over Carmine and I don't really care what people in the industry say about Carmine. The result is blaring. Carmine has landed no big time lasting jobs and it's not because he's a bad drummer, he's a great drummer. It's quite obvious though that nobody wanted to work with him for very long. I don't know about the '60s but I grew up in the '70s and '80s. Very very seldom did I see a drummer's name on the kick drum. Overwhelmingly the vast majority of kicks displayed the name of the band. Carmine was never really interested in being a team player. He was in it for himself which he was certainly free to do. But he's def not going to get the kind of respect that drummers like Vinnie Appice or Tommy Aldridge enjoys. I don't fault you for calling me a douche or supposing that I have not done my homework because you don't know me and I am a nobody compared to guys like Carmine. I have been a fan of Rock and Metal for 44 years, we all have opinions about the many turn of events within this world. I have done extensive homework in these areas but I guess we can just agree to disagree. I respect that you shared your opinion.

@@themechaniacal1558 lmao. He was in Vanilla Fudge and had this new band called Led Zeppelin open for them. He even got John Bonham his endorsement deal with Ludwig. He was in Cactus, as well as Beck, Bogart, and Appice, as well as a number of other top tier bands. Tommy Aldridge has played with many bands as well, so does that mean he must be a dick too? How about Simon Phillips? Some people get musically stagnant very quickly. I'm a musician, so I understand that. No everyone has aspirations to be with the same band forever. Carmine is a nice guy. He didn't have to go out of his way to call Ludwig and tell them about this great new drummer. He's done several drum clinics as well. The name thing only really worked if a drummer played double kick drums. A single kick usually either had nothing on it, or the band name, like you said.

@@JokersWild70 You left out that he formed King Kobra after his stint with Ozzy. King Kobra had a huge hit associated with the movie Iron Eagle. It didn't last long though. I don't dispute any of those things and they don't negate the fact that he was hard to work with and was not much of a team player. That is miles away from the attitude of Tommy Aldridge and it's a bit odd of you to compare it that way or assume that I do or whatever you meant by that. Dude, it's subjective. Have fun with your view but that's not how I see it. As far as Simon Philips, I don't know much about him. He's def talented and is a choice session worker but I am not a fan of the bands he has done studio work with. Carmine's brother Vinnie Appice is not as talented as he is but I favor Vinnie for his work with Black Sabbath and Dio and respect him for being a decent foundation for the bands with which he has played.

@@themechaniacal1558 Listen to "Live Evil" and those fast rolls Vinny did on there. He's still very, very good. All musicians who have had big success will almost always have an ego. Dio, as nice of a guy as he was, especially to his fans, had an ego. Sammy Hagar, as well liked as he is, has an ego. Ozzy has an ego. Cozy Powell had an ego. Same with John Bonham. It just happens. Vinnie Vincent though: total scumbag. He sells a box set to his fans (and why his fans would want a box set from a guy whose band did two records is beyond me) and never delivers. He sold a bunch of stuff on eBay and although he was paid, pretty much didn't send the items, he's a total liar, he stored dead dogs in his garage which was just plain weird and disgusting. I never cared for Vinnie's playing. Yea, he could puke out a million notes a minute, but they did nothing for me. He never played for the song. It was always "look how fast I am!!! I'm great!" Watch his instructional video from the 80's on here. All of the bullshit he plays sounds the same. I don't think Carmine is as difficult to work with as you think. That rep gets around in the industry pretty quickly.

Just like like Eddie Trunk

And you know this because....??? Do you know him?

@@jamesrudd8705 watch any interview with him. He’s never been very humble at all.

@@ledflaplin2001 Meet him. You'll discover he's a really cool, laid back guy.

@@jamesrudd8705 His bass player Tim Bogert was my bass teacher and Timmy would've laid down and died for Carmine.

I wouldn't call that a performance. It was a sham.