Feb 1979 i was a 16 year old drummer living in Wellington, New Zealand, Carmine was in town with Rod Stewart on the Blondes Have More Fun tour, the afternoon of the show Carmine did a drum clinic at a local music store, remember, this was way before clinics were a ‘thing’ and Carmine was doing them back then!!! I remember Carmine walking into the store, sitting down at a Ludwig kit set up in the middle of the shop, grabbed 1 x stick & 1 x brush and played a ‘BOSSA’.... true story, remember he also wrote Realistic Rock, probably the first decent Drum Method Book ever written. A drummer way ahead of everyone else at the time.

I used to be Carmine's neighbor up on Long Island many years ago. Glad you are doing so well. I remember Vanilla Fudge well!!!

Spent a week with Carmine down in North Carolina in '78 at a Ludwig Symposium, the dude is Rock Royalty!

Carmine has definitely lived the life. One of the all-time great drummers who's played with a ton of other greats. Too bad Sykes never green lit a Blue Murder reunion.

I bought "Blondes have more fun" on vinyl in 1978.

In my family i have a Aunt and Uncle that had 10 Children 6 girls ,4 Boys and all the boys play Drums we all grew up together and i’ve Known of Carmines drumming since i was a Small child in the 70s it’s always kind of mystified me as to how to pronounce Appice at that moment and why it had changed so many times with my cousins we have a old old running joke amoung ourselves is it A Peace , AppySee , or A Peach Ay , That’s The Real Question i’m glad Carmine touched on the subject and kind of explained the mystery , one of my most favorite Vinyl LPs of all time and i’m almost 60 is Beck Bogart ,and Appice ! i love Sir Rods music in general ,and of course when Carmine was with the group it was one of Rods best years ! Keep Rocking ! Carmine ! BTW the next generation of my Cousins off spring are Rocking Long Island NY and the Upstate area one of the Grandsons has been winning contests at Bethel ( Woodstock ) ,and. has been sitting in with many of his Grandfathers current bands and getting Media Coverage etc Playing with the Stage name Vinny Sticks ! This Kid Is Good and he isn’t a Teenager yet !

Love the double "Beck Bogert and Appice Live in Japan" album which never gets mention as one of the great s live sets. Great drum sound and great playing from all.

I learned drum patterns from one of Carmine's books in the mid 70's.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Iplay Pearldrums

Nice to see a drummer I admired and grew up listening to has a coffee cup collection. I started one some years back also. (An old drummer myself). Kind of a " birds of a feather" thing maybe. Who knows. I did learn a thing or two from just watching him play.

Great interview

I didn't know the reason for the name change. I adore Rod Stewart and so I have known about Carmine forever. I guess nobody thought about maybe Rod could introduce him using the proper name and everyone would follow and pronounce it correctly forevermore. Too easy and then we wouldn't have a story. Also it's also damn sad how he got "did dirty" in that band.

The ,Pantera He took. I, had a Volvo when I was doing Hall & Oates auditions and albums. Hung w/ Carmine a few times way back in 71' ,then in the next century.

Carmine came along at the right time in music..got to see him with Cactus a couple of times

What a class act!

ONE GREAT DRUMMER

Yeah , Carmine is a great roll model & a man of great character considering the business that he’s in.

The real Italian pronunciation is Car mean eh A peach eh. My Italian wife LOL’d at the common pronunciation.

Foot Loose is an amazing album.

These are great interviews , the Appice bros are solid musicians & people \m/

Who really cares. Art is free and flowing. It is what it is. Filled with characters. Some humble, some,not so much. We need them all. It’s in this amalgamated mix we find the joy and golden honey. People like to hate. It takes energy, negative energy at that. Find the good. Leave the hate. Peace

I remember Dio intro'd Vinny as 'Aaa-Pa-See' but I wasn't having it. It will always be 'A-Peace' or Carmine & Vinny can settle this once and for all and go by Smith 😁

Nice to finally get some clarification about the pronunciation of the last name. Thank you!!!!

I hate back stabbers .Had that experience myself, ….. I was able to get even, not proud of it but it had to happen. Carmine is cool.

"Dirty Weekend"

Robert Plant :Am I a joke to you?

Interesting to hear Appice praise Rod Stewart. Carmine always struck me as a man's man and Rod was arguably androgynous.

That's funny that Rod said he couldn't remember why he fired Carmine. I remember vividly an article in an old rock magazine from 81-82 (either Circus or Hit Parader?) where Rod Stewart made a famous quote I will never forget as long as I live: "Never trust a drummer who has his own name on the front of his drum kit!"

Rod the Mod!

Rod Stewart's organization could not handle the enormity and impact of Carmine... he's the focal point

6:11 lol,, Telly Savalas about to get in on some groupie action.

lol, I collect coffee mugs too, I go for city cups, so usually any city you;re in you can stop at a coffee shop and they will have their city mug, I have others but those are my favorites, which is weird cuz my mother collected mugs as well and I didnt know it till about 5 years ago when I was at their vacation home where they were on display, she had began way earlier than myself she din't know how long since all the kids left but I only been in it 16 years or so? I mean when do you say you began collecting mugs, the first set you buy? the first time you put a mug away and don't drink out of it? if that's the case about 25 years ago then but I wasn't really looking to collect at that point about 16 years ago when I thought I wanna build a collection, or a larger collection... Ma still has me beat prolly 45 years for her, how long you been collecting Carmine? whoda thunk mugs would be rare or collectable? lol

The only band this man is worth notoriety for is Blue Murder. Forget vanilla fudge, Rod, it’s not even comparable on any single level. Blue Murder was incredible.

I never heard that Carmine was in line for Zeppelin. I heard it was Cozy Powell and Carl Palmer. In that order. I don't think Zeppelin would play with anything other than an English drummer.

Carmine is like the president of his own fan club.

You don’t call me

"I coulda been a champ!"

I can't recall if Carmine played on it, but "Night On The Town" is a great record.

You don't call me??? Are you kidding me or something, I'm the best the one and only, and you don't call me??? Lol only Carmine would say something like that!!! 🤣 When he said that to the tour manager, that was the precursor for him getting fired!!! "EGO"!!!

Carmine taught Rod how to sing and considers himself above buddy rich...go figure

Bloody Jim.

Appice and his bad wigs and horrific mustaches. After 70 years, can somebody please finally buy this guy a hand mirror?

They could have thought his ego was too big.

Poor Rod couldn’t pick up groupies… why do I think just maybe he paid off the sex police to keep quiet? Lol

And he still got his natural hair color.....oh wait.

Is he wearing a wig?

Who cares about the Rod Stewart years. I wanna hear about his time with 'The Rockers'.

Hopefully Tom Merlynn didn’t ruin your career 😊😎🙄

Hair dye

2 meters bro. You don't have it.

Rubbish

Rockers are children at heart, set loose in the candy store. But Carmine is known to have an ego the size of Mt. Everest. He was probably fired from Rod Stewart's band for being annoying. That nasal New York or Philly accent of his ....

Being a hired gun his whole life and never a real part of a successful band hurting his ego

Mr Cregan got jealous...

Carmine jumps bands faster then a pornstar jumps partners. He's got to be one of the hardest people to work with he trashes everyone He's worked with. He thinks he's the greatest drummer ever and he's average. He would be totally for gotten if he wasn't doing these gossip interviews

No Carmine - you were ousted from RSG because you thought you deserved more recognition than Rod. Jim Cregan and Gary Grainger were the real writers (along with Rod) - you just wanna blame Jim because he stayed the distance. Tony Brock was the best touring drummer Rod had since Faces.

Great interview